PAD Challenge Day 30: A Poet's Garden

PAD Challenge Day 30: Write a harvest poem.

A Poet's Garden

In my right hand, my pen is a sharp, fine, 

thin, black, beautiful hoe. Along the bed 

of an empty page, is where she lives and

loves to sow sweet seeds from thy own 

heart and soul, for the world and I to reap

lyrical flowers that grow in memory

of one in a million of my emotions sown. 

In times of weeding, I weed strength, 

courage, and wisdom together-plowing 

righteousness with tenderness through my 

agony, jubilee, and uncertainty into another 

soul-- like birthing life to roses to raise love 

in love poems; like baby breaths grasping, 

sharing my first breath of new rhythms and 

rhymes; like sweet peas for all of my sweetest 

imagery; like lilies in memories of my mountains 

after reaching the divine comfort of a valley; 

like sunflowers boldly yelling at the world to

stand tall in resilience and to keep heads 

high in the midst of torrid times; like honeysuckles 

borrowing noses and smoothing honey over a lover 

after lovesuckers sucking so much; like daisies 

full of innocent beauty, crazy for a smile after 

consuming similes and metaphors for a while; 

like lavender, a sacred healing balm next to 

biblical scriptures...these are floral words of healing 

I'm handing out as a bouquet to the world, trying 

to align God's children under one precious sense,

all from my magically flowerbed of hope- 

hoping that these lyrical floral arrangements 

beautifully expose what I naturally grow through, 

from the depths to the top layer of my poetic soul.

💜D'ElegantOne