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To Be in My Garden
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To Be in My Garden |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
To Be in My Garden My garden was long a soul place for me a place of contact and warmth a place of life, changing as I changed. I wanted you to be in my garden to be as fresh and tasty as sweet green peas to be as red and vibrant as just-pulled carrots to be as surprising as crisp potatoes newly dug to be the morning aroma in my bed of herbs. But it was not to be. My last garden was fertilized with anguish and watered with freshly made tears. All the flowers faded and all the vines went limp in the bitterness of that salt. All that was meant to be beautiful turned to dust. How do I garden now with such memories of you in rows and hills and beds? |
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Bodger Senior Member
since 2005-06-12
Posts 1260Tolerance for a short time |
Yes I can understand that It is often that people are associated with a "circle of activities" and long after the personal thoughts may have died to still remember the associations and take pleasure, relief and pride in them, but also pain Dave |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
and all along perhaps she wanted very much just to be your dandelion and who knows, maybe in her mind she was and perhaps is a poignant, heartfelt write |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
Bodger, Thanks for stopping by and commenting. |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
Hi Kacy, You know, I could be happy with a dandelion! Thank you for your insight. |
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FNG Member
since 2006-02-07
Posts 477 |
A bit sad but beautiful  Thanks for sharing your hearfelt thoughts. |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
I lived into this heartfelt poem. I believe that your garden can and wants to heal you with sunshine and shadow patches of tranquility as a reward for the sweat of your brow and as consolation for your sorrow. Please let it. I feel the birth rumblings of yet another poem about my own garden. - Owl |
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Archea Member
since 2006-05-13
Posts 65United States |
what does this really mean? A loss of someone, im sure, but i feel a deeper meaning to it. mabeye im reading to much into things... good poem though. |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
FNG, You are welcome, and thanks for your comment. |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
OwlSA, Sometimes gardens need a rest. This may be one of those times. Hope your garden poem is getting written. |
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S Arthur Grey Senior Member
since 2001-03-19
Posts 719woven by a poet's loom |
Archea, The reader is as important as the writer. Read all you want into it. Be my guest. It means as much as you want it to mean. |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
well I was hungry until the last verse...then I sure felt sad this touches, but you knew that |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Your garden will give you a hint, I am sure. Stand and listen. After the tears ... you know! ... it's the smile's turn. Beautifully written. Love, Margherita |
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OwlSA Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347Durban, South Africa |
Yes, you are right. Sometimes gardens need a rest - but not for too long. I was born 3 weeks late, and I think my garden poem may be following the genetic trend. - Owl |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
In my recent experience...when a relationship doesn't work out as planned...it is important to not have any ill will...understanding and foregiveness is important...James |
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