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Learning To Garden

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Learning to Garden
David J Walker

Watch 
	Said Father
To me and my brother

As my sister 
And mother 

folded clothes and
did other chores 
for sisters mothers 

Watch said Mother
As father dug his fingers 

into the pre plowed ground
Planting pole beans, peppers, 

And tomato plants with flowers 

Water
	Said Father
That the plants may live

And give us meals 
	In the future

Watch 
said Father
and learn

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Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 9/30/2021 4:14:00 AM

it appears I cannot send you a soup mail as you have not soup box, may you please send me one, thankyou

Mystic Rose Rose

Date: 9/30/2021 4:13:00 AM

We learn so much from watching our parents when we are young, and they are wise to make us self sufficient, when they are long gone, that is what we remember the things they made us watch and learn. I for one am grateful for that, Thank you for sharing, your poetry with me, :)

David Walker
Date: 9/30/2021 6:12:00 AM

Thanks, Rose, It is so gratifying when I see my children gardening too. I home my grandchildren pick up on it.

David Walker

Date: 9/22/2021 6:53:00 AM

Janks, James. I plant a garden in the backyard every Spring as if I were supposed to, doing what my mom and dad taught me.

James Marshall Goff

Date: 9/22/2021 5:54:00 AM

Oh this was splendid, David! a community gardener myself in Minneapolis, I plant heirloom varieties of all you mentioned your Dad did, & pollinators too!