Poetry From the Garden
If you enjoy garden photography, I invite you to the companion post, Images From the Garden.
Earlier this year, I spent a lot of time gardening. It’s a small garden, and I started out of curiosity, to spend more time outside, to rest and ground. For a steady supply of fresh salads and herbs for the bunnies, and some veggies for myself.
For the joy of observation and cultivation. I am very much a beginner. Learning little by little by watching, working, and reading bits of advice whenever I have a spare moment.
It is incredible how much is going on in such a small, ordinary patch of land. I am starting to think that gardens contain all the wisdom of the world. I wonder if the magic of a garden lies in the balance between intentional cultivation and processes beyond our control.
Much like human life. Often, it is in the presence of the garden that I internalize some of the teachings, and it has sparked many of the poems that you might have come across on the website. Here, I have gathered them into one compilation, added some that haven’t been published yet, and edited one or two in new ways.
I hope you enjoy.
Poem:
garden watering
a wasp lands on a leaf
to sip a bit
Poem:
hot summer evening
ripe cherries’ fragrance
in the warm rain
Poem:
after the whole day
in front of a screen
picking tomatoes
Poem:
flowering
in its illness
an apple tree
Poem:
resting still
a rose-apple tree
and a Buddha
Poem:
a spider in the snail shell—
when my time comes
may these bones too become
someone’s new home
Poem:
reunions
sprouting grasses
falling leaves
Poem:
a snail munching
on the salad seedling
enjoy the meal!