Portrait of A Wild Garden

Portrait of A Wild Garden

 

I wasted so much of spring

thinking about

starting work on the garden,

before I knew it ..

Between the bees, the birds

and the summer ..

   They had all beaten me to it ..

 

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

There is a great deal to like about wild gardens. They attract the wildlife. Not just the birds and bees but butterflies too. Nice to look at. Sometimes it’s great to just sit and chill out and relax. Reminds me of nature taking over everything in its way. Like that Victorian cemetery I wrote about. Natural is beautiful.

Chris

[Neville]

who in their write mind would have it any other way .. many of my most bestest & biggest thanks Chris .. Neville

[John Sullivan]

Both my father and grandfather before me are gardeners... I can't help but think of Seamus Heaney's "Digging..." I've got no green thumb but maybe I can grow a garden of a different kind

[Neville]

I love spending time in my garden but mainly potter here n there looking and sniffing .. cheers John and good luck with those nortyculturist endeavours sir .. Neville

[John Sullivan]

norty? ima gud boi, Nev :P

[JD Major]

I like the metaphor Neville!
Waiting for one's life to start is an all too common waste.
JD

[Neville]

glad you were able to see it my way JD .. cheers

[Patricia Wedel]

dear Neville... we have wild lavender that appears every Spring. There is Magic sown by Birds and Bees. Your poem is a Portrait of Nature's Inheritance. Be blessed as Earth unfolds. tenderly, Pat

[Neville]

How lovely Pat .. we also have lavender here .. and I know I shouldn't have, but I did, a good few years back take cutting from a wild specimen I found growing by a local lake called Wimbleball Lake on the moor .. Oh' and thank you for finding your way here to these words of mine and blessing them .. tenderly, Neville