Gregory Richard Barden Poet Free verse

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* For my children - Sommer, Brandon and Alyssa - I love you more than life. *

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grateful gardener -

three flowers ...
          of extraordinary bloom
     seeds and earth, spun together in chaos

          soil of arable value, some more or less ... firm,
     but challenge not the care of the tenders - their loving ambitions
they gardened and provided with nurturing hands

     far-from-perfect, the aliment entrusted ...
not always in accord, but consistently full hearts for the task
          oh, those blossoms were, as any, pressed by the elements

for life is as much the storms, as it is the fair and fine
          but the roots were strong and reaching
     what they sprung, hearty and bright and graceful -

          as imperfectly perfect as childhood dreams
     now, I stand back and watch them gather light and wings
drink rain, bend in the wind, fold their petals in twilight ...

     seeding new buds and blooms of their own
for that is the way of flowers ...
          their beauty, blessing.







Submitted on June 3, 2020
To the "Brian's Select 3, Any Form, Any Theme" Poetry Contest
Brian Strand, Sponsor.

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