Under a sky the color of pea soup
she is looking at her work growing away there
actively, thickly like grapevines or pole beans
as things grow in the real world, slowly enough.
If you tend them properly, if you mulch, if you water,
if you provide birds that eat insects a home and winter food,
if the sun shines and you pick off caterpillars,
if the praying mantis comes and the ladybugs and the bees,
then the plants flourish, but at their own internal clock.
Connections are made slowly, sometimes they grow underground.
You cannot tell always by looking what is happening.
More than half the tree is spread out in the soil under your feet.
Penetrate quietly as the earthworm that blows no trumpet.
Fight persistently as the creeper that brings down the tree.
Spread like the squash plant that overruns the garden.
Gnaw in the dark and use the sun to make sugar.
Weave real connections, create real nodes, build real houses.
Live a life you can endure: Make love that is loving.
Keep tangling and interweaving and taking more in,
a thicket and bramble wilderness to the outside but to us
interconnected with rabbit runs and burrows and lairs.
Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen:
reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in.
This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always,
for every gardener knows that after the digging, after
the planting,
after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- How Thought You That This Thing Could Captivate? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Trebetherick poem – John Betjeman poems
- Николай Гумилев – Избиение женихов
- One Year by Sharon Olds
- My New-Cut Ashler by Rudyard Kipling
- Михаил Кузмин – В раскосый блеск зеркал забросив сети
- Off the Turnpike poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war by William Shakespeare
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- Иида Дакоцу – Сквозь зимнюю мглу
- Юнна Мориц – Букет котов
- Зинаида Александрова – Молодой месяц
- I am He that Aches with Love. by Walt Whitman
- Pain Became My Friend Today © by Shannen Wrass
- Ок Мельникова – Что рассказать?
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).