Mark J. Halliday Poet Sonnet

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This was written for a Spring sonnet contest.  Besides following this particular sonnet form, the text could not use the letter A (onomatopoeia style skipping certain letters).  I've been fertilizing my raised bed garden, and expanding gardening into a sunnier space to grow multicolor tomatoes and two varieties of pumpkins (still in process of plantng).

Spring Sonnet

Spring Sonnet

The microscopic lifeforms in my soil
Sense the rising in degrees Celsius.
Old Summer’s red wiggler worms now uncoil,
While hungry birds look down most odious.

Most showers now done, the weeds envelope
The surviving herbs, flowers, plus veggies.
Like the weeds, slimy molluscs interlope,
Quitting the shadows with their progenies.

Scooping composted chicken & steer 
Into my orange Home Depot buckets;
Troweling in costly mineral grit -
Then turning the soils, crushing silt nuggets.

The difficult tasks done, seeds in the grounds –
October pumpkins will surround the mounds.

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