Awakening

In my garden, the only place I thrive
there lives a tiny bird who keeps me alive
If others enter, little bird flies away
But near by me, he seems to love to stay

He makes a sound like a click on a switch,
took me many days to tune to his pitch
He rests tiny feet on wire tomato cages
or on bamboo poles that gather sages

He seems to be telling me little bird tales
about cabbages, carrots, and dark-green kales
There are carrots and radishes almost grown,
and peas from seeds most carefully sown

Beans are blooming, cucumbers are crawling
toward any stick where they hear the sun calling
My garden will feed many of us through the summer
blessed by a clicking bird rather than a hummer
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Agustin Avatar
May 16, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Meanwhile, I greet you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.
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