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GreyMouser
Junior Member
since 2000-10-20
Posts 17


0 posted 2000-11-06 01:22 AM



The garden deep within my heart
has long since gone to seed.
The little spot were love grew tall
is overgrown with weed.

No one to water, till the soil
and trim the stems so neat.
So many lonely years have passed
it now doth barely beat.

The pretty pots which bloomed with trust
are emptied weathered stone.
Neglected for so long a time
they sit there all alone.

Dark creeping vines of age and gloom
have covered 'oer the walls,
and shut out light that beamed
so bright on flowers large and small.

The thistles bristling thorns of woe
and nettles hurtful sting,
were planted there by broken dreams
and nights spent suffering.

And so my garden waits for one
to see how once it grew,
pull up the nasty vines and weeds
and plant true love anew.

To sprinkle my parched dried out soul
with gentle drops of rain,
and wash away the dust and sand
in which grew bitter pain.

One day someone will finally come
to weed and rake and hoe,
for her the sweetest, reddest rose
my garden then will grow.


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Jamie
Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168
Blue Heaven
1 posted 2000-11-06 01:28 AM


get out those gardening tools!
Lovely poem


Jamie

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito. - Virgil.
"Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely".


serenity blaze
Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

2 posted 2000-11-06 01:38 AM


I DO love this---in fact, my own garden is in much the same disarray...I think it is time to hoe and mulch it over. Thanks for this one, mouser.  
Victoria
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Member Ascendant
since 2000-08-12
Posts 5869

3 posted 2000-11-06 07:10 AM


another fantastic poem Mike..With a beautiful ending..loved it.. HUGS

             ~Victoria~


A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
- Paul Valery (1871-1945)


Butterflies_dont_cry
Member Elite
since 2000-03-06
Posts 3733
Michigan
4 posted 2000-11-06 07:22 AM


Excellent thought...you've woven the perfect
weave of a heart in need of TLC..Welcome to
Passions..your talent is easily noticed and
will be a joy to receive here.  Terrific
writing~


nakdthoughts
Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200
Between the Lines
5 posted 2000-11-06 07:27 AM


The thistles bristling thorns of woe
and nettles hurtful sting,
were planted there by broken dreams
and nights spent suffering.

And so my garden waits for one
to see how once it grew,
pull up the nasty vines and weeds
and plant true love anew.

absolutely beautiful words...you express yourself so nicely

~Wynter



"The worst prison would be a closed heart".
...Pope John Paul II



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