Seedlings From This Years Seed Packets
Seedlings …
Seedlings From This Years Seed Packets
“Eat responsibly…” Wendell Berry
1. Seedlings
Whether microplot
a red brick keyhole garden
dollar store planter.
Turning over soil
with a healthy mix of earth
layered bottom rock.
As seedlings take root
feel a sudden sense of hope
of fresh vegetables.
Cabbage froze in dew
with discolored wilted leaves
one small new leaf sprouts.
Fresh squash and onion
there my luck with spinach
or my cilantro.
Low to the moist ground
a patch of my seedlings grow
light green two leaf young.
The joy of the spade
As it reaches old topsoil
under a new sun.
2. Gardens
With this cilantro
the herbs ask to rise along
a movement of taste.
I wake to the dew
frozen in early springtime
balanced on green tips.
Moment of worry
about safety of seedlings
the promise of crops.
A future salad
mixed with many homegrown greens
the ones that pushed through.
The cabbage struggles
with the weight of the real world
no greenhouse comfort.
But this is all dream
based on these sturdy young sprouts
pushing towards the light.
To turn this vision
of numbness and sedation
into daily food.
3. Wheatgrass
Some wheatgrass held strong
heading quickly to the sky
grown to fill a niche.
Or to kneel on ground
with gentle optimism
to move each new sprout.
Labels start to fade
lose track of the cantalope
this small yard garden.
Remove husks from beans
whose vines crawl into view
with morning coffee.
With some luck and love
a garden will take the shape
of this given space.
These spring garden dreams
a desire that runs deep
tomato for sauce.
With enough to share
this fresh food with our neighbors
here’s too many meals.
4. Vegetables
Youthful reminders
of what can grow from our world
created in love.
Grown from our Mother
made from our own fingertips
returning to Earth.
Each seed a prayer
slowly heading to heaven
when answered will bloom.
With hopes to share crops
with our downtrodden neighbors
this food our reason.
Above these new barns
cherry blossoms gently fall
soft blanket of white.
With love-me-not bloom
their blooms may stir our love
return to embrace.
These are my visions
of a peaceful quiet life
enjoy homegrown food.
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Most wonderful and creative verse. Homegrown is always better. Brings back memories of my garden back in Latvia. Thank you for the memories.
Lovely verse that I can relate to Jamie. We were frustrated trying to keep a vegetable garden watered, weeded and maintained, so decided to buy large pots and grow vegetables in them. It has worked a treat because we can move them to suit the sun, shade and rain. We have had an abundance of tomatoes and lettuce, and the capsicums and cucumbers are almost large enough to eat. Thanks for sharing your garden. I hope it brings and abundance for you and your neighbors.
It is so nice to have fresh vegetables from one’s own garden. Job well done, Jamie.
I wish I was a gardener, I down have the time during the day to maintain it. Good luck with it this year. Freshly grown vegetables are the best for sauce.
Thank you Paul, Phyllis, John and Rasma. I appreciate all your comments and I am happy that you enjoyed the poem. Jamie