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a Shortie Poem

A chapter in the book Picture Poems

Buds and Beauty

by Treischel

Buds and Beauty
(A Shortie Poem)




Inside the bud
Beauty awaits
A lily lurks
That joy creates
When color blooms
From flower's gates
Red petals lined
As white pulsates
Around the edges.

It captivates
The poet's eye
Illuminates
For passersby

Alleviates
The troubled world

Stamen vibrates
Upon the wind
Its pollen baits
the butterfly

A bee locates
The spores within
It concentrates
Upon the core
It populates
The hive once more

Such lovely sights
Life celebrates
Nature's marvels
That stimulates
Mystic Gurus
Who contemplates
The Cosmic thoughts
It consummates






Buds of a Lily at the Como Park Conservatory. I was inspired by the structure of these buds. So large. So well defined.

This poem is called a Shortie. Not due to the length of the poem, but the length of the lines.
A Shortie is a poem of 4 syllable counts for every line, thus the name called a "Shortie". No rhyming is required.
For this poem I mono-rhymed every other line, plus a few others in between.

Lack of punctuation is intended by the author.

This photograph was taken by the author himself.
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