The bud becomes a rose and the rose a hip.

French proverbs
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All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As Soon As The Frozen Snow Melts To Go

Frozen is the snow.
Melting it will go,
Away...
When Spring begins again.
And flowers bright will bloom.
And I...
Want to be that one,
To share...
This Spring that comes with you.

Walking like we'll do...
With a budding we'll get to know,
As soon as the frozen snow...
Melts to go.

And flowers bright will bloom to gow...
With a budding we'll get to know,
As soon as the frozen snow...
Melts to go.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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The flower there is for me

The flower there is for me
To water its bud
And give it its bloom
The flower there is for me
To raise it from the mud
And save it from its doom
An immortal bud to make it
A fence of earth to break it

©Miroslava Odalovic

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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early spring wind
a symphony of cherry buds
on the tree

haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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blooming red bud
fiery flames in pools below
April Fools

haiku by Ben Gieske
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blooming red bud
fiery flames in pools below
April Fools

haiku by Ben Gieske
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Like grape, like bud. Like father, like son.

Corsican proverbs
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Denny Rose Fragile

Fragile petals buds
Buds play roots
Roots betray the earth
Earth spoken hearts
Too deep for a rose
Smash an already broken
Denny Rose Fragile
Strength forgiven life
Some place else you’ll grow
Loved by the heart of all the hearts

poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

quote by Todd Akin
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The Lover Sings Of A Garden

Oh, beautiful are the flowers of your garden,
The flowers of your garden are fair:
Blue flowers of your eyes
And dusk flower of your hair;
Dew flower of your mouth
And peony-budded breasts,
And the flower of the curve of your hand
Where my hand rests.

poem by Helen Hoyt
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Hypersyllabic lyric with catalexis (for Mary Oliver)

There’s budding in the springtime;
fruiting in the fall;
flowering in the summertime;
but winter comes to all..

poem by Michael Shepherd
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from seed to plant
from bud to fruit
all are merely miracles

senryu by John Celes
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My husband and I
entwining near together
bud, leaf, and flower.

haiku by Val Morehouse
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Song Of The Rose

THE lilac-time is over,
Laburnum's day is past,
The red may-blossoms cover
The white ones, fallen too fast.
And guelder-roses hang like snow,
Where purple flag-flowers grow.

And still the tulip lingers,
The wall-flower's red like blood
The ivy spreads pale fingers,
The rose is in the bud.
Good-bye, sweet lilac, and sweet may!
The Rose is on the way.

You were but heralds sent us--
All April's buds, and May's--
But painted missals lent us
That we might learn her praise,

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poem by Edith Nesbit
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I Like To Get It Before It's Gone

In the midst of the budding of a birthing Spring.
I stood at the edge of a forest green.
And sought a path to walk through,
When Summer made it.

And the bees would hum,
As the birds did sing.
While I did this one on one,
With Mother Nature doing her 'thing'.

In the midst of the budding of a birthing Spring.
I stood at the edge of a forest green.
And wanted these days to happen.

I love to walk through the park at dawn.
Just to see what's going on.
And breathing clean fresh air everywhere.

I like to get it before it's gone.
Before the noon is born.

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poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing.

quote by Matthew Shipp
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July Tree

True love seed in the autumn ground.
True love seed in the autumn ground.
Where will it be found?
True love deep in the winter white snow.
True love deep in the winter white snow.
How long will it take to grow?
You know true love buds in the April air.
You know true love buds in the April air.
Was there ever a bud so fair?
True love blooms for the world to see.
True love blooms for the world to see.
Blooms high upon the July tree.

song performed by Nina Simone
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I Can't wait

Buds swelling
in the plum garden
oh, I can't wait
for the bloom.

poem by Marites C. Cayetano
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A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.

quote by Letitia Landon
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