The Poem Garden
Time to weed the poem
to plant a row of words
to turn the phrases
that bloom the colors
to follow the root
to the source of truth
for the sustenance
of the soul
_____Colleen Redman / Poets United
"A blog is to a writer what a canvas is to an artist." ~ Colleen Redman
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May 20th, 2018 9:26 am
I just closed my eyes… and imagined your poem as a movie. The wonder! Leaves would be made of letters, branches of lines, and individual trees would be stanzas… Love the look of it.
May 20th, 2018 9:37 am
A lovely poem.
May 20th, 2018 10:14 am
This is absolutely spectacular! ???
May 20th, 2018 10:27 am
I do it not often enough… poems can have so many unnecessary words.
May 20th, 2018 10:59 am
I am sustained by reading your poem. Thank you.
May 20th, 2018 10:59 am
Every time I come here to read your beautiful words, my heart is filled with such emotion and my breath taken away by the fabulous work you produce….and today you have mixed my 2 passions…..gardening and poetry! This is truly a stellar piece that I cannot help but read again and again!!
May 20th, 2018 11:06 am
Weeding and planting words. I love it!
May 20th, 2018 12:31 pm
How apt to use a gardening analogy. It’s perfect -especially as words take root in our minds. Very clever and perfectly executed poem!
May 20th, 2018 3:35 pm
What a great analogy. I need to weed my poems more carefully.
May 20th, 2018 4:04 pm
enjoyed the theme .. the planting of words gave me a smile
May 20th, 2018 4:30 pm
I really like the way you worked with words here. I like the idea of weeding the poem. Sometimes we do use too many words and the poem becomes ‘weedy’, and it is good to get rid of some of them.
May 20th, 2018 6:07 pm
to follow the root to the source of truth…isn’t that the truth.
May 20th, 2018 6:11 pm
…as well as the gardener 🙂
May 20th, 2018 7:32 pm
Loved this–gentle and solid–
May 21st, 2018 2:56 am
Yes, writing poetry is much like tending the garden to produce magnificent flowering words to please all readers.
May 21st, 2018 3:35 am
Poems and plants belong together – nicely done, Colleen!
May 21st, 2018 6:46 am
Love this analogy – sometimes there is much pruning to be done before our words flower.
Anna :o]
May 22nd, 2018 10:40 am
wonderful! light and colourful!
May 23rd, 2018 7:19 am
What an absolute gem of a poem! A beautiful and apt sustained metaphor.
May 27th, 2018 10:14 pm
I have dug up n plucked so many roots this year!