The Cultivated Mind (Home Grown)

Father and Mother 
With golden determination 
Focused to open my thoughts 
in several ways of revelation -- 
My manner is... Homegrown 
The once green mind still looks back; 
at all that has been revealed to its now browned shell… 
and with that same determination of gold 
I pass down the revelations of old 
to my children, as I have been told 
The mind should always be 
Cultivated to the best of ones abilities.... 
Its focus should start within the home 
That is why I feel blessed 
When I tell you my children 
Most assuredly -- I am Home Grown.


Author’s Comments: 
As a farmer tills the earth and toils to harvest that which he has sown and the wife 
prepares the table before him, produced from within the bounty reaped thereof... 
 Thus, we should take the time to cultivate the minds of our children, to also 
acknowledge their surroundings and the people there in. 
To stay focused on the blessings at hand, that they not live stagnant lives but to be 
productively responsible for the gifts which they each so uniquely possess. 
 The mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008


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Date: 8/9/2008 2:40:00 PM
Home grown filled with wholesomeness and health and can be applied to be people. Love this, well written and a powerful message. Well done. Regards Heidie
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Date: 8/6/2008 5:32:00 PM
Some of us are so proud to be home grown...I wish everyone could be proud of where they come from. I enjoyed this poem very much!...Fondly, Carrie
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Date: 8/6/2008 5:31:00 PM
Just wanted to say I don't think a 7 is enough so I added this to make it a 14 - big smile
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Date: 8/6/2008 5:29:00 PM
hi Adell - Bravo what a great write and the footnote at the bottom was absolutely wonderful - beautifully written beautifully read - great job Adell - God Bless
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Date: 8/6/2008 4:48:00 PM
A very wise poem full of well deserved pride. Home life is the foundation of our lives. Your children will be as blessed as you. A very powerful and beautiful poem. Love the author's comment as well. Love, Shar
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