Deeply rooted
spring soil welcomes new life
sodden past
*
sun smiles knowingly
discarded tiger lilies
age-old struggle
*
old life removed
nature taunts failure
can’t dig away pain
This set of haiku shared with A to Z Challenge for the letter R as well as Poets United Mid week Motif – this week’s prompt Poets United
What can be more organic than haiku written while I was standing in the soil. As I was digging yesterday, I grabbed my phone, took pictures of the roots I have dug up for 4 years and I wrote about my struggle on my (now grimy) notepad.
penned in moon dust 
Rich
__Roots, that reach into tomorrow. _m
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some of them don’t want to give up 🙂
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Much truth in those final lines.
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thanks Charlie- that’s the life of a gardener.
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Excellent metaphor.
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Thanks it’s always nice when the poems cooperate
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Each stanza expresses a different mood, it seems. So many facets of spring.
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so many facets of gardening 🙂
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Your poems are so good and meaningful, thank you Leslie. 🙂
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Ranu you are such a dear friend – hugs
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I hope that sometimes various pain is reduced by new growth. I love the rooted possibilities of organic life.
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Yes I think over time most pain subsides (well the emotional not the “old age” pain)
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Clever use of the prompt
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Thanks Rall. The garden was being my muse yesterday.
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Digging and being creative at the same time. Wonderful multi-tasking, Leslie. I love the poem. Sounds like you’re making room for new plants 🙂
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Thanks Mabel – I sometimes laugh when my hands are in work gloves. I need a spare hand to write stuff with 🙂
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“can’t dig away pain”…great truth…
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nope so we cover it with dirt Lol
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Sigh.. sometimes I wish we too could be as strong as those roots 🙂 As always beautifully penned. Lots of sunshine hugs ❤
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Miss you sunny one!
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Who have not faced all the trying times in gardening. What the book says can turn out to be different. There are more disappointments and heartbreaks than happiness. But still it is lots of fun. Great thoughts Moonie!
Hank
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no kidding but houses are like that as are relationships…
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A gardening haiku. Doesnt get any more organic than that! Loved it.
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The garden certainly produced a poetic bloom – i wonder if we can dig away at pain – even if it can’t be fully taken away..
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sometimes we cause a secondary pain especially if we are using a pick ax
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