Garden Gossip: Poem

 

Garden Gossip: Poem

Flowers blossom and bloom

Their strong perfume

Comes from fragility

To emerge deep strength.

Did you know

They stretch tiny bodies

To grow tall

To reach out to sunshine

And dance when the breeze

Orchestra is on.

Did you know

Flowers offer sweet hospitality

To Queen Bee

And the tiny boy named Hummingbird.

Flower beds welcome

Lady Bugs, Dragon Flies,

And even colorful Butterflies.

Rumors and gossip

Spread very fast and repeat

In the Garden of Gossip.

Flower beds

And watering tin cans

Are wet and stone cold

But it is not their fault.

The mini-rose bush blossom

Used to be awesome,

Now, it’s dry and has stopped growing

As the Old Man stopped watering.

There is a brokenness

Out of which comes the unbroken,

Strength and happiness

Out of which blooms spoken.

Some spaces are hollow

When there is sorrow

About the Gardener’s loss

As the rumors pass.

The roses cry deeper in roots

Because the secreted edges

Cut has a bleeding heart.

They broke the place inside,

Wet and dry,

As they learned to cry.

Tomshinsky@2025