Tend to Your Garden

a poem for a friend

I think that it's time

That you turned to her

As she has turned to you

Sometimes your garden

Needs more than the dew

It needs some tending too

Jim Lonsdale Poetry 2025

Reviews

[Zoe Richardson]

Such a powerful message in so few lines. I am impressed despite your determination to seldom do so.

[Desert Knave]

Thank you !! ~Jim

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Just like in a relationship. Our mates need tending to and sometimes we simply take them
for granted and still think that love will grow.
j.

[Desert Knave]

Thanks. Yes, I think it is a natural thing to take people for granted a bit. ~Jim

[Michael Sun Bear]

Hello Jim, So I read the poem a couple times and kept asking myself is he calling a woman his garden? She won’t like that. Then I looked at the Roger’s Gardens display and was really confused.

[Desert Knave]

Thanks. The person this is for is someone I call "Flower", so the garden theme was all about her. ~Jim