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ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

0 posted 2016-01-02 08:38 AM

Mid-winter fills my living space
But I have hope, and pious faith;
Though time by passing slow, endows
No shelter alms of charity,
When only brittle-Stubble breaks
The snowy, flattened, garden ground;

Except for a crooknecks amber glass,
That makes a show above the slab,
Where now it lies at final rest.
An orphan, frozen-lifeless child,
Of green, in summer mother-vine;

But allowing spring flower-clouds
To rise up, mirage-like
Bright sunny images
Show oasis on pages;

Something came in the mail today-

A book of summer dreams
Of bright, sweet berries,
And eat them raw peas-
Red Tomitillos
( if you like husk tomatoes)
Of come summer bounties
That seem most delicious,
When frost paints the windows,
In bland winter-scenes.

I fill in the blanks, sign the check-
Raise the flag, to beg attention,
Then cope the up-lane drifts,
Refilled with faith, renewed in hope
That spring is only time, and space away.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

1 posted 2016-01-02 08:46 AM

Oh Yes! the catalogs! We just got ours in the mail too! Hard for me to think Spring when I'm still waiting on the darn snow! ~L

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2016-01-02 09:29 AM

Heh.Heh I'm with Lori, it is difficult for me to think about spring with this winter cold. Now around the last of February I'll sure 'nuff be think of spring BIG time!

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

3 posted 2016-01-02 10:49 AM

Ah, this cultivates much thought within me...bout lifeless plants returning to the soil and becoming nourishment for the next generation... the cycle of life continuing as it is, but this goes straight to the crux: the catalogue that makes it all possible.

we become the Creator with such at our disposal... and there is no greater fulfillment than watching our creation, our children, grow from saplings into a beautiful garden surroundin us.

Thank you, Ice. This one stirred something within me. Hope you have a wonderful new year.

Michael

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

4 posted 2016-01-02 02:43 PM

Thank youy Lori, we don't have snow here, but it is colder this week...not below the knothole, like it usualy is...but mid 20s.

Thanks Jerry
Our last frost is in late May...but we have a long ,drawn out spring, that can be refreshing, or bitter..

Michael
What a nice reply...love what you said, it added something beautiful to my post... :-)

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."
Carl Sandburg

Charisma

Member Ascendant

since 2000-09-30

Posts 5906
lost in blue pages

5 posted 2016-01-02 03:06 PM

spring..love that season
alas it seems that snow comes first here
hope that it won't last

thanks for sharing

Cari
Member
Posts 411
Englnand

6 posted 2016-01-03 12:47 PM

Seed catalogues, a corporate acknowledgement to the renewable of new life. Drop a tiny tomato seed into a 3” pot and in a few short months you’re tying it to the roof of the greenhouse, a miracle indeed.
I can grow most things except Gardenias, they promise so much but offer only frustration. I’ve even tried talking to them, I’ve been that desperate.

Nice poem Ice, it needed to be said.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

7 posted 2016-01-04 06:50 PM

Seed catalogs have always fascinated me ... oh all the possibilities to grow something and to watch it growing, simply awesome.

You have created an excellent poem here, dear Ford.

I have no garden anymore, but whatever grows and blooms on my balcony feels my love and gratitude, I am sure, even though I am not really a magician.

Much enjoyed. You stirred memories ...

Margherita

rainyday
Member
Posts 304
Heartland USA

8 posted 2016-01-04 08:10 PM

Loved the Springy feeling this gave me Ice,
for now I'll daydream of what flowers & bushes I'd like to plant, & a few tomato plants & ???
Hopefully I'll be somewhere else by then..
starting over. Thanks for the hope that comes
with Spring..and your wonderful Poem.

rainy

ice
Member Elite

since 2003-05-17

Posts 3404
Pennsylvania

9 posted 2016-01-05 08:14 PM

Thanks for reading , and the replies..

I read each reply carefully-as each has its own unique message..the best part is, I think I am understood when I explain, through my poems, what life says to me...and that makes me smile-

Thank you

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