My Weedy Garden
A Soul-led Creative Poem
Fallen leaves rustle.
All shades of brown and gold.
A tattered old carpet, dusty and worn.
Floating, restless, hovering above the ground.
Sent down by the angels.
All blown about.
Crunchy, crisped up from all that time spent loving the sun.
Now separated, temporarily lost, torn from the roots of mother.
Fellows, holding hands, awaiting their soggy return.
Tangled around green shoots of life.
Stuck to mud-speckled pots filled with survivors.
Some green and tall, booming, sustained.
Others dark, in drought, past their best days.Desperation wriggles, hidden underground.
Evidenced through tiny cracks in pavers.
Little seeds searching for a place to breathe.
A lifeline.
Any speck of hope will do.
These are the thrivers, always adapting.
Finding new ways.
Seeking the riches others have left behind.All this failing beauty still purrs with persistence.
Flexible, indifferent, committed, resilient.
A natural spectacle humming with truth.
The sun still beats.
The wind still bustles.
The birds still cackle and play.
The daily orchestra of insects still perform on cue.
And the butterflies simply do not care.
They happily drink the nectar of my weedy garden.
And flutter precariously through life.
Are you being too hard on yourself? Guilty as charged from time to time over here! 👋 I took a moment this past week to reflect on my literal weedy garden (its a bit of disgrace but I am embracing it for what it is at the moment - a temporary tiny component of my expansive life experience). Through the process of creative writing, my weedy garden became more beautiful, more simple, more necessary and my poem became peppered with metaphors for the journey of human life.
My question for you is:
Where can you give yourself a break and embrace the weeds in your life during this chapter or season? I would love to hear your thoughts 👇
Take care, Sam x
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