nurture

[CdnReader]

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nurture

a tiny shoot
almost too small to see
almost too small to feel
just beginning
to gain hold in the damp spring soil

touch it gently
a brush of the fingertips
coax it towards the sun
imagine its potential

scour the surrounding flowerbed
for intruders who would
magnify the risks
choke off the possibilities

keep the enemies at a watchful distance
while you nurture this wee one
patiently, cautiously
hopefully

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[ampoule]

Lovely Cdn. Though it's about spring, it seems so perfect for this time of year, the ground like a steaming hotbed.

[dibyendra]

You can write on every thing cdn and that amaze me every time. I liked this one as usual cdn. :thumbs_up Keep up your good work !

[Poppy]

Very very nice cdn...here its turning fall and you made me smell fresh soil and wild onions. Now where did I put those seed catalogues....

[PrinceMyshkin]

Even here, in remote Poitiers, I feel this poem. See you at CdG?

[Pendragon]

Nearing Halloween, and the pumpkin patch in a neighboring town will soon be selling, if they had any grow as we were in drought conditions most of the growing season. My lilies, Rose of Sharon, and lilac bloomed fine though. I nurtured them from tiny plants. Your poetry is beyond needing my comments, CDN. They have a life of their own!

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[TheFifthElement]

Interesting Cdn, I thought this one could equally as much be about a child, or new love, and that perhaps it's a little more than agriculture. Or perhaps not, but I liked it all the same :)

[CdnReader]

Thanks very much, all of you, for allowing my spring poem here, even though it's the wrong time of year.

Fifth, this is most definitely NOT about agriculture. ;)

[Poppy]

Thanks very much, all of you, for allowing my spring poem here, even though it's the wrong time of year.

Fifth, this is most definitely NOT about agriculture. ;)

Oooops....shows you how much I can interpret!! :crash:

[CdnReader]

Oh, Poppy.... I'm the WORST at interpreting poetry!! Sometimes I don't even know how to interpret my own!!! :lol:

[barbara0207]

Poets are almost always the worst interpreters of their own poetry. :lol:

But ambiguity is what makes this poem so rich. The garden lover, like Poppy, will see his own plants and the loving care he puts into his garden, the parent of a newborn baby will see something completely different - as well as, say, a poet or writer or architect, you name them, who is nurturing a new project or a lover who is worried about a new love.

I loved this poem.

[CdnReader]

Thanks for your kind words, Barbara. Much appreciated. :)