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Tend The Garden Poems - Poems about Tend The Garden

A Garden of Memory
...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 ......

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Categories: tend the garden, mother,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Secret Garden
...“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 won’t tell anyone else .” Ma......

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Categories: tend the garden, beautiful, fantasy, happiness, imagination,
Form: Prose



Premium Member August
...August, comes to Canada with lovely cool nights, Until the end of summer our days will be hot delights; Getting ready for the cold is far, far, far away, Until August i......

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Categories: tend the garden, august,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Stars Shine Bright
...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 I r......

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Categories: tend the garden, america, angel, children, chocolate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heathers and Dragonflies
...[ Opens with Harmonica ] I was a broken man, down on my knees Traveling on a train to nowhere; A troubling, endless journey; Through worry, pain and hardship. ......

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Categories: tend the garden, angel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Somber Power of Clouds
...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......

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Categories: tend the garden, allegory, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Simple Days
...He was born in the Georgia clay drank sweet tea everyday It was rise and shine at the crack of dawn as the rooster sang his song Milk the cows and bale the hay b......

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Categories: tend the garden, allegory, america, culture, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Heaven Here
...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......

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Categories: tend the garden, devotion, faith, happiness, heartbroken,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Tend the Garden Where the Tulips Grow
...Tend the garden where the tulips grow. Moisten soil, sun drench. When leaves faint and wither, resuscitate. Let the scented air blow through th......

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Categories: tend the garden, flower, love, marriage,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Let Us Build a Tower
...(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......

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Categories: tend the garden, future, technology,
Form: Verse
The Garden Gnomes
...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 ou......

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Categories: tend the garden, cat, fairy, fantasy, flower,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Scantily-Clad In the Garden of S W Eden
...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 S......

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Categories: tend the garden, adventure, beauty, betrayal, bible,
Form: Verse
Premium Member My Day Is Coming
...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 with good time friends. Now, most of them ar......

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Categories: tend the garden, friendship, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Upon a Bed of Petals
...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 and hoe were put away He we......

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Categories: tend the garden, war,
Form: Rhyme
Tend the Garden
...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......

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Categories: tend the garden, allegory, faith, life
Form: Narrative

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