Garden Daze

A reflection on gardening

GARDEN DAZE

Metal sinks into earth,

Sure in my solitude, I worked the ground alone 

Vast reaches of hot sky showing my worth

I am not alone.

The fair earth reveals 

creatures frantically writhing and escaping

in grotesque silence 

from my death-metal plunge

that shakes and plunders their world.

Climbing and clawing up my mountains they live again,

Destiny-food of superior beings 

A subtle flicker of dancing shadow distracts me

Above and behind on the corner of my sun-blinded eye.

And there, buried deep in the green tangle of sweet-smelling vine,

A second on yon fence then, 

skipping across my sight, 

chasing frolic on the wind 

a blazing opportunist glides laughingly over my

sodden, clod-bound effort

My approach brings invisible naughty rustlings.  

Twin sky-dwellers, alerted by the turning of my head  

trace a liquid dance in the air

that dissolves instantly into warm air

I wipe the falling sweat from my brow, sadly pondering the Curse,

This banishes the dancers from my company

and I return without them to my husbandry, 

As if to remind me not to brood

A hidden choir charms the air.

Did not Nature’s song

Give its greatest performance then?

Reviews

[emmajoy]

' My approach brings invisible naughty rustlings.= Twin sky-dwellers, alerted by the turning of my head = trace a liquid dance in the air = that dissolves.. .. .. '

Am a landscaper, just had to read this piece of fine writing, found snippets of how it s in a garden never asleep, always something happening, even out of sight. The second stanza is a work of art, really visual. As to the birds, their freedom to roam is how it should in the Today. Will read again..

[Victor Gamma]

Thank you Emmajoy for taking the time to look at this poem. Will love to return the favor and do so right with.