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Open Poetry #40

Everybody's garden

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2007-03-08 01:50 AM

Spit and spurt; no one is hurt
when water trickles gently so
upon the garden all must grow
but send me to a waterfall
unbridled, uncontrolled,
and sinks the part that could be heart
because always too much spray
is just too hard to swallow.

Out there amidst the drip and drop
is where I hold opinions best
but in the roar, the crash, the fall,
all I thought entrenches more.

But I turn the cheek of tolerance;
these days I’ve grown some more
for what is noise and bluster but
the building blocks of nature
in mix and match like flowers, weeds,
in everybody’s garden.

Nothing serves a garden best
than a soft and gentle morn
breaking ever quietly so
over all that tries to grow
but when the midday sun screams out
only weeds survive the heat!

Helen / 8 March 2007

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

1 posted 2007-03-08 03:03 AM

So very true, Helen. I'm wishing you lots of soft of gentle mornings so your graceful garden is always abloom. *hugs*....jo

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2007-03-08 07:06 AM

Thank you, Jo, and may your wishes make it so.

Sphinxen
Junior Member

since 2007-03-03

Posts 38
U.S.

3 posted 2007-03-08 04:04 PM

"but when the midday sun screams out
only weeds survive the heat!"

Oh! I liked it very much!

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