Best Green Thumb Poems

There once was a cougar named Rose

who kept the young men on their toes.

Working in her garden

they'd say "beg your pardon

I'll bet you could use a good hose!"



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She has magic hands,
Persephone's touch.
Everything she plants, 
thrives vigorously.

I recall the time
she unwittingly produced
blossoms from dead limbs. 
Wish I could do that!

She stuck the twigs, 
broken off a nearby tree, 
in dirt to mark the spots 
where she planted seeds.

In Spring, peach trees 
sprang up...

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(A Shadow Sonnet)

Earth mother, now return to Mother Earth
for time has taken what you were born for.
Listen for its call, oh dear one, listen,
and answer, before it pulls both thee and
 
me. As rain washes earth's green over me,
I remember your thumb, stained green as...

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 Gardening pursuits
A green and healthy income
Seeds into flowers ...

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As I went for a walk in Soup's green field,
many sterling poems caught my appeal.
Planting of fresh new ideas I saw
but the patina on some puts me in awe.

In my editor's eye, what makes pieces shine
is attention, the editing, line by line.
Wandering this field over...

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There was a time when only weeds survived
My green thumb as I tended soil and seeds
Plants so stunning, my nurturing deprived
Of the sunshine’s love, the sprinkling who feeds
Only mom’s gentleness and grace revived
The lingering of the droughts and the weeds
Bringing grace to the soil with...

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My Green Thumb


Whenever I bought a plant and tried
To keep it watered and well fed
The plant just shrivelled up and died
Now all the plants I have are dead.

I gave them light or lots of shade
Did everything I was told
Talked to them when they seemed to...

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With green fingers the gardener worked
Hence the garden thrived and perked,
Ironically when blueberries collected 
Thumbs were stained from fruit selected. 








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gorgeous African violets
pink, periwinkle, and the deepest purple
yellow centers and dainty dark green veined flowers
we were in awe of Edna, for none of us could grow them...

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