How Does My Garden Grow?
Wonderland Poetry Prompt Challenge Day 6
A gardener, I guess I will never be,
I don’t have patience for deep complexity,
I just need a neat garden with symmetry.
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The weeding is a chore, pure necessity,
Where I am it’s such a fruitless, thankless task,
Seems weeds are adapted for longevity.
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Water and feed it, grow plants, is all I ask,
But alas, there is no green thumb on me,
Maybe it’s just an impossible task.
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Some lavender, a shrub, and frangipani,
Green lawn and a white fence to seal my retreat,
The nursery says I’m too close to the sea.
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Despite all the salt air and all of the heat,
It is not half bad when it’s viewed from the street.
[Author's note: This is a Terza Rima Sonnet poem. A Terza Rima is a poem with an eleven-syllable count in each line and a rhyming scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, dd. The Terza Rima Sonnet has an eleven-syllable count in each line and a rhyming scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee.
Till next time,
Calvin
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Calvin London
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