Tag: Garden

Poetry Friday: Seen and Unseen

Christmas Hellebore in December
Christmas Hellebore in January (and she’s STILL blooming in March!)
Under the oak.
Such a beauty!

A daily cherita…

Before I planted hellebores

I never 
noticed them.

Now
I see them everywhere.
What else have I been missing?

(c) Mary Lee Hahn, 2024

I’m going to feast my eyes on all the early bloomers in the next couple of days: forsythia, dogwood, magnolias, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, and of course, all the hellebores. Because Sunday through Thursday next week the nighttime temperatures will be in the twenties. Before we get there, though, we’ve got to live through the tornado watch for tonight. Ah, springtime.

Cousin Tanita at {fiction, instead of lies} has this week’s Poetry Friday roundup. Or should I say…the UNBOUND up! Here’s to “all things lax, roomy, slack, and slouchy!”