Photo: http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com
“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space – a place not just set apart but reverberant – and it seems to me that the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” Michael Pollan
The Garden
To sit in this hallowed space
in this day poured out,
an oblation
transforming all who enter,
listening to the conversation of birds
perchance a dragonfly or two,
as slender limbs waft gently
on the breeze that washes over me
drifting lavender through the air,
while all the morn the sun caresses
my very bones and warms my soul,
and suddenly I am many ages
of wonderment and fathom,
of child and man.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com.
Natures simple pleasure !
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Absolutely 🙂
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💗
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🙂
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Nothing better!
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The best indeed.
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Beautiful
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Thank you so much Matthew
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lovely rendition of the few ‘sacred’ gardens I’ve found … easier if it’s inside 🙂
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It surely must be 🙂
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Love it! The garden is where I find peace and relaxation!
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Yes, so good isn’t it? Thank you Rosalinda.
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So beautifully said about gardens, Paul.
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Thank you Amy, aren’t glorious places to be? 😀
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OMG I think you wrote this for me! This is exactly how I feel when I sit in my backyard. Thank you!
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They are such special places. Thank you for sharing Diane.
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Nice one Paul, so serene and calming. It really is lovely to get lost in a garden.
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It sure is, I find it restorative, thank you 🙂
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You very welcome, great piece 👍🏻
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🙂
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“on the breeze that washes over me
drifting lavender through the air,” Great romance too. Thank you Paul! Apologize the late revisit. Had put me out of the WP-system last weekend. Too much playing with the running system. Lol Michael
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Glad you’re back Michael, many thanks 🙂
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Thank you too, Paul! And apologize the writing mistakes in one of the comments. Horrible not to know about the two “c”, and the singular usage.
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Not to worry, language is always evolving. 🙂
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Lol- Thank you, very kind.
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Also very true 🙂 🙂
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I love this poem – I could feel and smell and experience this as I read your words
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It really is our poem I guess 🙂
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Oh, yes, I know this garden feeling!! It’s one of the joys of living.
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So special, and I find even the most simple garden healing.
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As do I, and that includes untended fields of wildflowers.
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Absolutely Liz
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🙂
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