Eden's Shadow or Enchanted By Glimpses...

I finally have a garden bench!

(After 'rescuing' a dilapidated wicker bench

on a Sunday afternoon drive

from a backroad ditch.)

Nothing that a quilt and cushion

 and a few strings to bind sags

couldn't fix!

A person can get downright comfy in a garden corner

at the end of a busy day!😊

The place where Eden’s shadow falls 

is framed in friendly hollyhocks

Sunflowers deck its bower-walls; 

breeze-batons tease bean-vines, corn stalks

Love’s toil is sweet where spoil of seeds 

enchants us with glimpses of He

Who smiles, while stunning us indeed

with isles of creativity

The place where Eden’s shadow lies 

is crowned with skies, cerulean

Its glints and hints of paradise

unbound in nature's diadem

Where garden dirt is mined for treasure 

carrot-orange and beet-red

A gratifying kind of pleasure; 

hand of God and mortal wed 

The place where Eden’s shadow spans 

is cursed with pestilence and pain

Unlike the first garden where man, 

because of sin could not remain

But still, the beauty of the Lord 

is poured through gourd-pod-plumed goodness

Where duty reaps a rich reward 

of culinary happiness

The place where Eden’s shadow waits 

to fling ajar gates that God sealed

Grants glimpses on heaped dinner plates 

as we give thanks for harvest-yield

For mercy’s lavish 'let there be' 

As you and I with hope and hurt

Touch the hemline of Majesty 

through windows set in garden dirt

© Janet Martin