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Spiritual Journeys #2

Soil

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

0 posted 2006-10-07 12:48 PM

Winter comes

and soil lays silent

  all the while preparing for new life


      decay has it's noble purpose

of nutrition, to support the new seed of spring

the flowers we loved have died

bulbs sleep in hard darkness

even broken insects lie here

and all the while the roots of weeds wait

in hope

that little crop will take their place when the sun warms their bed

when the sun turns its shining face again

the hated worms will unpack the hardened places

and life will form out of the dead

    out of the richness of all we loved and hated last year

But what array of beauty will come!

for this is the Gardener's garden, beloved and never without his plan

sandgrain
Member Elite

since 1999-09-21

Posts 3662
Sycamore, IL, USA

1 posted 2006-10-07 02:38 PM

How very true! The rot and worms we shudder at, are the very things that make the soil rich for the lovely gardens we so admire. My husband uses compost barrels. Nice poem.

Rae

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

2 posted 2006-10-07 03:51 PM

Thank you Sandgrain

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

3 posted 2006-10-09 01:17 AM

Good one, Copperbell. *hugs*....jo

jody5
Senior Member

since 2005-12-21

Posts 876
California, U.S.A.

4 posted 2006-10-09 03:49 AM

Copperbell, That was a beautiful poem you wrote about nature and it's lifeforms and although I don't like insects I liked your poem because You carried me all the way to the end.

Hugs Kimberly

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