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POETRY CORNER: The Garden

by Guest contributor
January 19, 2024
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Daffodils Picture: Erika Varga from Pixabay

Daffodils Picture: Erika Varga from Pixabay

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A poem about the yarn for peace and harmony in the entire world

The tempests in my head are back again,

They are forever trying to ruin

The garden that my soul nurtures

Thus sending strong winds to tear it down.

Though my soul is strongly fighting back

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Through the old Oak in the middle of my Garden

With all the Daffodils and Roses and Wisteria

In all the seasons, restlessly, amazingly robust.

Since my soul’s Herculean desire not to bend,

To fight tremendously and stay tall,

Truthful to my Garden

Is forever persuading the storms to draw back.

And for decades the peace prevails

The new sun is shining bright

And the silky birds are rising their trills again

Their magic songs of friendship and harmony.

Laura Abbie

Resolution

2024 Rule Number One:

No resolutions shall be done!

Let’s get a glass of sparkling wine

And let’s all sing the ‘Auld Lang Syne’.

Cause life is more than just a plan

One has to taste the land of fun,

Enjoy it as it would be banned

As in Moulin Rouge’s French Cancan.

Leaving all one’s fears far behind

Taking the journeys of all kind,

Climbing the mountains one by one

And shouting loudly ‘I have won!’

Laura Abbie

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