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.