Chili Blooms!

Perfect edges line every petal
White as jasmine and cool as mint
Oh, wait till they turn to fruit
Taste the pepper hot sweat to heal!
Poetry: Copyright ©2014VeerajaR

Photo: Copyright ©2014VeeraMahal Franklin

To Catch Rainbows

Catch them rainbows in my garden
Display them on my salad plate...

Copyright ©2014VeeraMahal Franklin

Spring On A Roll!

Yep, Spring is here for real...... finally!

Copyright ©2014VeeraMahal Franklin

African Elephant Haiku

African Elephant Haiku!

You Trumphet--
Trying to raise 
the fallen...
Dry white bones!

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©2013VeerajaR
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Copyright©2013VeeraMahal Franklin

Apple Blossoms Haiku!

Apple Blossoms-

Blushing pink, scents inviting

Buzzing bees and all!

Poetry Copyright ©2012 by VeeraMahal Franklin

Copyright ©2012VeeraMahal Franklin

Spring-2012

Garden Springs to Life

Grooming under shade of peach

Blooms swan pair speechless!

Copyright ©2012VeeraMahal Franklin

Peach Bumble

My peach tree was in full bloom, literally a pink cloud, in early April. Like the bumble bee we had been too busy to admire the beauty of the blooms.

Thanks be to GOD for my Nikon!

Copyright©2011VeeraMahal FRANKLIN

Blue Blessings!

Spring is here!!!
And my garden is waking up from winter sleep. As nature's wild and vibrant messengers the--so called--weeds sprout everywhere and of course the perennials.

I was fascinated by weeds even as a child, because the butterflies seemed to like them a lot. And in college, I did a seminar presentation on weeds and my research further convinced me that the term "weeds" is for human being and has nothing to do with the plants. GOD created everything for a purpose and we as human beings like to label everything relating to us.

We hear the ads: Weed them out! Spray at site, etc., etc... But, weeds still thrive and persist. May be GOD made the weeds extra resilient, because HE knew human nature. Definitely, we do not have answers to everything.

Do you like these blue blessings from my garden? Can you tell which is the weed and which is garden plant? Really?

These blue blessings, from my garden, display the beauty as GOD intended---just trusting Almighty GOD's wisdom!

Copyright©2011 VeeraMahal Franklin

Beauty Parade-2008

Picture is worth a thousand words; how true! I am lost for words looking at these beauties and having a hard time picking a favourite. They are all very competitive, dressed up so elegantly and parading gracefully in the wind!

If you think you could pick a winner among these beauties, parading in my garden-please, let me know!

Thanks for trying!

-VeeraMahal FRANKLIN