Sixty-Seven2

July 28, 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 about a private garden’s public good.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sixty-seven cultivates her garden,

Invested in the beauty of the Earth.

Xerophyte or hydrophyte, her plants

Thrive heartily, unconscious of their worth,

Yielding grace that lifts life’s loneliest burdens.

So does the private serve the public good.

Each gives gifts to all, for good or ill.

Vision is a gift the garden grants,

Enduring through another’s mind and will.

Nor can one see, except as others would.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/67b.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

July 26: Kathleen Charlotte Angel Passed Away

July 27: Twenty-Eight3

July 28: Sixty-Seven2