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Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

0 posted 2003-07-09 07:54 PM

Pitiful Petunias

The promised rain
did not arrive.
My plants are only
just alive.

Eight days the time
that I was gone.
I asked my friend
to look in on
my roses and my
annuals,
my baskets of
perennials.

I left the hose
hooked up close by
to water them
if they looked dry.

They had been watered
I could tell.
Why is it then
they don't look well?
Why did they take
this sad nose-dive?
I fear some of them
won't survive.

The only answer
I derive
like children, plants
need love to thrive.

By: Joyce 7/9/03

[This message has been edited by Joyce Johnson (07-09-2003 08:23 PM).]

NewEnglandlazurlu
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-01-04

Posts 7470
A Mountain Paradise

1 posted 2003-07-09 08:54 PM

Darn, I'm so sorry about your beautiful plants. Now that you are home, I'm sure they will perk up with your love and care.

A most enjoyable poem. hugs...

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. A.Einstein

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2003-07-09 11:26 PM

Joyce: I think there is a lot of truth in what you say! Hope they make it!

Betty Lou Hebert

aries_luv_ppl
Senior Member

since 2001-09-20

Posts 1448
Universal Mind

3 posted 2003-07-10 01:02 AM

Beautiful. Hope your plant well.

Eliza Simmons
~Every girl has a dream within.
~Yesterday insult, today gain.

junemac
Senior Member

since 2003-04-24

Posts 1005
uk

4 posted 2003-07-10 04:00 AM

awww your plants missed your tender care. they missed you !!!!!

hope they are getting better.
hugs from june xxxxxxxxxx

2dalimit
Member Elite

since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

5 posted 2003-07-10 01:47 PM

Nice thought!

Thanks,
Melton

missmisery61
Member

since 2003-07-08

Posts 56

6 posted 2003-07-11 10:17 AM

You know you have the magic touch when even your flowers miss you so much when your gone! I think they will perk up now that "mom" is home, lol.

cynicsRus
Senior Member

since 2003-06-06

Posts 591
So Cal So Cool!

7 posted 2003-07-12 10:13 AM

quote:
like children, plants
need love to thrive.

Isn't that the truth?

Good analogy, Joyce.

Sid

pegasus111
Member Elite

since 2000-07-27

Posts 2219
ocala, fl, usa

8 posted 2003-07-12 06:18 PM

Joyce dear, I had the same problem with a lovely Bouganvillia bonsai. sometimes there is just no explanation. nice read.

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost

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