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Monday, June 22, 2020

Happiness and Garden/Flower Poemlets

 
Each time that we seek to impress
We rob ourselves of happiness
Better to praise the One who grants
The ways and means to sing and dance

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Happiness is the heart’s applause
Though scarred with hard regrets
Hope balances its scale because
God forgives and forgets

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How can one be an atheist
And be a gardener too
How can one watch a bud untwist
Yet deny you-know-Who

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Don’t wait until it is too late
To sit where flowers nod
The mettle of petals soon fades
And garnishes the sod

This is the day the Lord has made
Don’t wait to give Him laud
The petals round our Soul soon fade
And return us to God

© Janet Martin


 
 
 If you are a garden and poem lover chances are you too 
have savored these inspired words by
 Dorothy Frances Gurney
(esp. the 2nd last stanza)
 
THE Lord God planted a garden
In the first white days of the world,
And He set there an angel warden
In a garment of light enfurled. 

So near to the peace of Heaven,
That the hawk might nest with the wren,
For there in the cool of the even
God walked with the first of men.
 
And I dream that these garden-closes
With their shade and their sun-flecked sod
And their lilies and bowers of roses,
Were laid by the hand of God.
 
The kiss of the sun for pardon,
The song of the birds for mirth,--
One is nearer God's heart in a garden
Than anywhere else on earth
.
For He broke it for us in a garden
Under the olive-trees
Where the angel of strength was the warden
And the soul of the world found ease.

 D.F.G.

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