Long Tend the garden Poems

“I’m reluctant to share my secret, but being we are the closest of friends, I will share my secret with you. But before I do I’m going to ask you to pinkie swear that you...

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SCANTILY-CLAD in the GARDEN of S W EDEN

Here I stand, all alone, scantily-clad in the garden of S W EDEN.
Wondering if the Original Garden still remains untilled and uneven.
Wondering how that Serpent knew of the...

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[ Opens with Harmonica ]
     
I was a broken man, down on my knees        
Traveling on a train to nowhere;    ...

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Leafy ferns and little frogs
Toads live in the garden
Weeds and grass and daffodils
And poop...I beg your pardon

Yes poop is in there from the cat
That roams around the houses
Just pick it out or grind it in
It...

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The morning comes with smoke and ash,
Where once her garden used to grow.
My mother's hands lie cold and still—
The earth has claimed what earth must know.

She used to wake before the sun,
To catch the light...

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I used to mow the lawn with joy.
     And trim up all the trees.
Prune the hedges, tend the garden. 
     Way down upon my knees.
Shoot the bull...

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He was born in the Georgia clay
 drank sweet tea everyday	                       
It was...

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The Somber Power of Clouds
David J Walker
I
A slice of our bumbling childhoods
Tumbling from a moments nowhere 
The secrets left unnamed yet stained
In the blush of our innocent shame
I am old and want to know 
How...

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Stars Shine Bright

In the heavens above, 
I see your face. 
It is the face of grace, 
holding me close, 
so I do not lose my place, 
standing in the shadow... 
of the lost. 

Every day...

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The flower bed needs weeding -
Before it is overgrown.
The tree branches have fallen -
Rotting, as they lie in the sun.
The grass is growing brown before our very eyes -
As we watch silently and do not...

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Tend the garden where the tulips grow.
                      Moisten soil, sun drench.
When leaves faint and...

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Heaven Here

I stare at the photo, 
unbidden… tears fill my eyes. 
I can barely see. 
I hate that about me. 
You would laugh. 
You always laughed. 
I wish 
that I could
still hear you laugh.
I think...

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(Lines on a visit to a repeater station)


See it
stretching to the sky
contained in a cloud
Jacob's ladder grows from the ground.
What angels in overalls
and rubber extremities
periodically  climb on missions
to the great lightmaker above?
Spreadeagled, its feet
are...

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He loved to tend the garden that took up half of the back yard
He was out there come rain or shine – the work was not that hard
When the bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the shovel...

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