Life is a garden

[oldkicker]

Life is a garden

Life is a garden,
good friends are the flowers,
And times spent together
life's happiest hours...
And friendship, like flowers,
blooms ever more fair
When carefully tended
by dear friends who care.

- Helen Steiner Rice

I hope your gardens are full of flowers!

 

[dandave]

Thank you, oldkicker.
My family members are the flowers. In their absence, I tend my plants and think of them.

 

[tiggersmom2]

All of my favorite plants are bestowed with my family members names!

 

[Snowwark]

If I had a flower for every time you made me smile,
I'd be walking in an endless garden.
- Author Unknown



Now, here's one for April.

An altered look about the hills
A Tyrian light the village fills
A wider sunrise in the dawn
A deeper twilight on the lawn
A print of a vermilion foot
A purple finger on the slope
A flippant fly upon the pane
A spider at his trade again
An added strut in chanticleer
A flower expected everywhere

- Emily Dickinson



Thank you for the poem, Bernie. I've wondered if I should bring them, and the garden sayings back, and I guess if I want too, I should just do it!!

 

[gina2000]

NATURE, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest,—
Her admonition mild

In forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.

How fair her conversation,
A summer afternoon,—
Her household, her assembly;
And when the sun goes down

Her voice among the aisles
Incites the timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.

When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky,

With infinite affection
And infiniter care,
Her golden finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.


Emily Dickenson

 

[Mamu]

Each flower is a soul,
opening out to nature.

-Gerald de Nerval

 

[amid chaos]

I don't have anything to add, oh wait, maybe I do.

April flowers
bring may Flowers.

Ok, I know...sad, LOL

Thanks for sharing your wonderful poems....I am going to print them out for my garden journal....all except mine.

 

[Snowwark]

Nope, never heard of that one, Vanessa!

Here's an appropriate one for today!

You can always tell it's April
By the sound of falling rain
That mystic, mournful music
As it trickles down the drain.

We're told we should be thankful
For the kiss of April showers
As it washes all the grass clean
And prepares the soil for flowers.

There's another side to April
Which doesn't bode us good
When that mini, manic maelstrom
Turns the lawn to liquid mud.

O' To Be in April ~ Thomas Vaughan Jones

 

[Tulirose]

Thanks OldKick for the sentiment. Same back at ya and all the Garden Buds.

Just got the following in an email the other day. I can't reproduce here all the cute pictures it came with and I also think it sounded vaguely familiar, as if I had seen it before... perhaps on this very forum?....

Subject: From the Garden

FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING, PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:

1. Peace of mind
2. Peace of heart
3. Peace of soul


PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:

1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness


PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:

1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another

NO GARDEN IS WITHOUT TURNIPS:

1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another

TO CONCLUDE OUR GARDEN WE MUST HAVE THYME:

1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends

WATER FREELY WITH PATIENCE AND CULTIVATE WITH LOVE. THERE IS MUCH FRUIT IN YOUR GARDEN BECAUSE YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW.