Poetry Garden

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. - Thoreau

if i grow poetry in a garden

who'll scatter the seeds

who'll pull out the weeds

who'll pray for its growth in creeds

who'll separate the fruit from the tall reeds

who'll water it and tend to its needs

when i'm hoeing titles, and stanzas with rhymes and my heart bleeds

who'll tend to a dangling participle when it pleads

who'll turn the pages for the one who reads

who'll wear its love beads

who'll ensure that volume 2 exceeds and supercedes

Author's Note

"No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Curly Grace]

There’s a quiet wisdom here. A poem grows the way any living thing does, through patience and steady tending. Your questions feel like the garden speaking back, reminding us that creation asks for care more than applause.

“The gardener knows that patience is the highest art.” -Thoreau

[Pete]

so true what you kindly and insightfully say. "My life has been the poem I would have writ But I could not both live and utter it." - Thoreau

[Thomas W Case]

There’s a quiet grit here—poetry treated like something alive that needs blood, sweat, and care.
I love how you mix the labor of writing with the tenderness of tending; it feels real and earned.

[Pete]

straight up, twc. thanks for calling it as you see it.