#378
Eden's Weather
Ah. That's better:
Sun lit morning,
Eve's in her Garden,
I in my book.
Distance brings delight.
After all, I mistook,
Perhaps, and she will,
Once again, overlook.
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An Olde Olde Story, Slightly Retold...
#373
Eve Alone
Eve's in the Garden,
A perilous sight;
Adam's not present,
Something's not right.
Her beauty's like sun rays
Cutting through clouds;
Frolicing creatures
Attend her in crowds.
But something's not right,
She's in a blue funk;
If I didn't know better,
I'd blame Blossom the Skunk.
The Serpent is talking,
That's new today;
What in God's Garden
Could he possibly say?
Sun-lighted leaves in October's trees...
#327
Yellow, 2012
Walking in the garden,
Aimless as a bee,
Kicking fallen leaves about,
Feeling fit and free,
Found myself at the maple,
Looked up through the maple tree,
Saw the leaves full-lighted
With a yellow witchery.
Inspired by my wife's rage...
#220
Sprung
11 April 2012
The chill wind trashed the garden,
Middle of the night,
Shriveled leaves and blasted buds,
Then fled before day's light.
Garden Encounters...
#219
Sinister Meetings
I peered down through the foliage green,
Down to the garden floor;
There I saw peering up at me
A nature I abhor.
It had an evil reptile head,
With evil reptile eyes.
Though just a garden garter snake,
It caught me by surprise.
The Near-Sighted Serpent...
#218
Oops!
In our garden lives a snake
Whose vision's weak and dim.
Last week I found him wrapped around
The garden hose so prim.
One of the rich mysteries...
#147
The Gingko Leaves
We don't have a gingko tree,
Yet we have their leaves
Strewn about our garden floor
As if by a Giant's sneeze.
Turtle in trouble...
#126
The Model
28 May 2011
Simon found a turtle
Hunkered on the path
In the backyard garden:
It wasn't doing math.
Simon hunkered down as well,
Barking all the time,
While I rescued the turtle
For the turtle paradigm.
In the garden, a 4 foot rat snake...
#119
So Long Snake
Simon met the Rat Snake
On the path of grass and stone;
Astonished, he let loose a bark
That rattled wood and bone.
The snake continued gliding
O'er the rough-hewn garden walk,
While Simon kept on barking,
Not interested in talk.
When Simon closed upon him,
The snake reared up his head;
Simon suddenly remembered
He hadn't made his bed:
He suddenly remembered
He hadn't made his bed.
So Long Simon!
Garden thoughts...
#111
Blessed Be...
Blessed be the Garden
Home of our first sin;
Blessed be the Garden
Where Judas turned Him in.
Blessed be the Garden
Where they laid His head to rest;
Blessed be the Garden
Where the Christ was but a guest.
The mirror in the rose garden...
#101
A Reflection
A mirror in the garden
Makes the garden a surprise,
Creating unwalked avenues
With otherworldly skies.