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November Folk Wisdom: Thunder, Snow, and Parker’s Autumn Valentine
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Frost covers a November garden. November 4, 2020 As the year deepens into November, the air hums with old weather wisdom-those…
Reluctance: Robert Frost’s Farewell to Autumn’s Last Flowers
by Robert Frost And the dead leaves lie huddled and still, No longer blown hither and thither; The last lone aster is gone; The flowers of the witch-hazel wither … As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Robert Frost
November’s Memory: Fire Opals, Crimson Sunsets, and Windswept Pines
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Pine trees against a November sunset. November 1, 2025 November has a voice all its own-a low, thoughtful murmur between the…
November’s Closed Door: Maggie Dietz on Autumn’s Retreat into Winter
by Maggie Dietz Show’s over, folks. And didn’t October do A bang-up job? Crisp breezes, full-throated cries Of migrating geese, low-floating coral moon. Nothing left but fool’s gold in the trees. Did I love it enough, the full-throttle foliage, While it lasted? Was I dazzled? The bees Have up and quit their last-ditch…
Ode to the Mosquito: Poems of Humor, Buzz, and Bite
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Mosquitoes in the garden. August 20, 2020 As summer deepens, the season’s sweetness sometimes comes with a sting-or perhaps, a whine.…
Potato Remembrances: From Machu Picchu to the Compost Heap
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Potatoes in the garden. August 19, 2020 Today’s poems gather around one of the humblest of gifts-the potato. Too ordinary for…
Dancing with the Daffodils: Wordsworth’s Timeless Ode to Joy and Solitude
by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They…
The Brook Flows Forever: Tennyson’s Meditation on Nature and Time
by Alfred Lord Tennyson I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorpes, a little town, And half a hundred bridges. Till last by Philip’s farm,…
The Fleeting Queen of Summer: Shakespeare, Johnson, and Stoner on Life’s Bright Season
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Lanterns in the garden at the end of summer. August 14, 2020 As the summer begins its slow descent into August,…
August in Sawdust and Goldenrod: Maggie Grant’s Wit on Summer’s End
by Maggie Grant For which there is no possible rhyme other than sawdust. Now, the task of justifying that word is going to be immense If I want to make sense, But anyway, here goes: I once had a doll called Rose Whose body was encased in a species of strong white cotton. Well, I…
Ah! Sun-flower
by William Blake Ah, Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the Sun, Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the traveler’s journey is done: Where the Youth pined away with desire, And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow Arise from their graves, and aspire Where my Sunflower wishes to go. As…
The Poetry of Watermelon: Sweet Crimson, Summer Smiles, and Sun-Kissed Rinds
Today’s Garden Words were featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Watermelon in the garden. August 3, 2020 Today we celebrate National Watermelon Day-a perfect nod to summer’s juiciest delight. This fruit…
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