09-05-2024, 06:31 AM
(09-03-2024, 10:46 PM)Mark A Becker Wrote: Hello Steve- getting closer. I like the expanded version, yet I have suggested some pruning, below:Hi Mark,
4x8’ beds I raised- no tomatoes
or beans, or even
the cooperative zucchini-
I've turned towards wild flowers;
a sprinkling of a mixture sown
with much anticipation
of sprouting. Each morning
I searched for tender shoots,
the raised hands of young dicots.
But feral weeds confuse -
growing comingled, anonymous
among the greater good - free
to steal sunlight, divert
nutrient soil, pilfer kindness
from rain.
What to cull? Each bright sprout
might be nothing but promise.
I keenly analyze each
developing pattern of leaf,
stalk, and form, to determine
its future worth, but each grows
green as the next, tall as the next.
Tight fists of budding determination -
weed and wild flower. I find myself
lost in examination, tested
by the blooming kaleidoscope
of simple truths.
Thanks for coming back and again making detailed comments/suggestions. Not sure I am ready to cut some of my darlings yet! Time for some rumination.
Thanks
steve

