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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597
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Thirst My garden still grows sweet peppers and habaneros tomatoes that love fruit you know and a little corn too to pop over tickling flames Come pull some weeds tend some ripening fruit water a thirst you know my soil is so dry and the sun is setting with a burning-up red and gold you need not buy |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Nicely penned, makes me want to go pulling up weeds, and that is not my favorite thing to do. ~~ "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent. It is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." --George Washington ~~ |
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ebonygirl Member Elite
since 2011-07-14
Posts 2000California U.S.A |
Enjoyed, Krawdad, Ms. E |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Krawdad, I am sorry your soil is currently so thirsty, but happy that your garden is still thriving with the fruits of your love and labour. I love the extreme satisfaction of weeding (wrote a poem about it a few years ago), and I SO love your sunsets in this poem which presumably wouldn't be quite so vivid without the dust in the dry air. Owl |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Ditto the above comments. Except for pulling weeds. Enjoyed. JL  Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Giggles at what JL said about the weeds! Owl |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
Enjoyed...reminded me of the days my dad had me pulling weeds in the back yard...James |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
In the heart garden the love plants grow like gems. I love the sweet melancholy that permeates your most beautiful write. I linger for a while here with you ...I hear the weed which whispers of its own reason of being. And one might well be to make people think ... Is there weed at all? I don't like to extirpate anything that grows, even the so called weed is beautiful. Let's sit down and watch the sunset and the little flowers which close their petals for the night ... and drink of this beauty. Love, Margherita |
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Klassy Lassy Member Elite
since 2005-06-28
Posts 2187Oregon |
We didn't have a long enough summer to harvest much this year, and we usually have too many zucchini. I think I got four cherry tomatoes, and so far only two zucchini, because it rained from October of last year to July of this One. Pull some weeds, definitely! Maybe build a green house. After all that water, our pipes broke, and the city charged us $292 for one month for water and sewer, and then pro- rated for six on it. Scoundrels! It really is hard to fight city hall. You know, I so appreciated the gold you don't buy in your beauty of a fall garden! Lovely write. ~KL |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Krawdad, I do believe that you will forgive me for using the thread of your poem to say that I really love Margherita's compassionate and poetic answer. Owl |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Love your garden, Krawdad, the lovely plants and the rows between them. Ida |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
Such a beautiful invitation would be hard to resist... sunsets and good companionship quench many a longing. *S* |
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Krawdad Member Elite
since 2001-01-03
Posts 2597 |
An invitation, yes, my garden can be a lonely place. Thanks for peeking in. |
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