Constance La France Poet Free verse

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Garden Memories

I will turn back the pages of time
to mom and to when I was a little girl
mom would fill my pool and in I jumped
she called me pixie and I giggled
     then, she turned to her garden
     trimming black-eyed susan
     and white shasta daisies
                             and I helped too
        I had my own tools
            and I worked hard
she gave me a small patch in the sunshine
with bright petunias and yellow marigolds
Mom planted coneflowers for the monarchs
I planted columbine for the hummingbirds
                            and yarrow for bees
     oh, I loved the garden
          then, mom said we need some rain
                             so we prayed and waited
              and the beautiful rain showers came
gently falling on all the flowers and my columbine
petunias, yellow marigolds, and yarrow grew huge
and some crazy creeping thyme I had planted 
      this is a treasured memory
                 in the book of my life

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March 08, 2022


Poetry/Free Verse/garden memories
Copyright Protected, ID 03-1437-403-08
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Submitted to the Standard contest, A Brian Strand Libre Vers
sponsor, Brain Strand, Judged 03/11/2022

First Place

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Christuraj Alex March 11, 2022 at 8:55 PM You have always some personal touch in your poems. This too is very beautifully written with childhood nature memories with mother. Congratulations! Constance La France March 12, 2022 at 4:22 PM Christuraj, thank you so much for the congratulations and compliment on my writing and my poem, I always want to put some of me in my poems ~ Constance