Sing of Gardeners, Who Nurture Beauty

July 25, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is gardens.

Today’s poem is a number poem in praise of gardeners.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sing of gardeners, who nurture beauty,

Invested in the source of civilization!

Xerophytes or hydrophytes, their plants

Take root and flourish by their will, not chance,

Yielding a sweet harvest of sensation.

No artist has more exigent a duty

In capturing the radiance of Creation,

Nor one more apt to make the spirit dance,

Earth turned to human song through cultivation.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/singo8.html. For more philosophical poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/philosophicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Gardens

July 24: There Is a Garden in My Heart

July 25: Sing of Gardeners, Who Nurture Beauty