Unearthed Words

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All the words shared on The Daily Gardener podcast.

Summer’s Lease

Summer’s Lease

By The Daily Gardener | August 14, 2020

by William Shakespeare Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.    As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. William Shakespeare Related posts: O Sound to Rout the Brood of Cares August Ah! Sun-flower There’s Rosemary That’s for Remembrance Mosquito

August

August

By The Daily Gardener | August 13, 2020

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…

It Is Pure Water

It Is Pure Water

By The Daily Gardener | August 3, 2020

by The Citizen-Republic It is pure water, distilled, and put up by nature herself,  who needs no government label  to certify to the cleanliness of her methods  and the innocence of her sun-kissed chemistry.  It is the tiniest trace of earth salts.  It has a delicate aroma.  It is slightly a food, generously a drink,…

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By The Daily Gardener | August 3, 2020

by Eric Carle On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of Watermelon. That night he had a stomach ache. — Eric Carle, American designer,…

Frank Lebby Stanton

Go Along Mister Winter

By The Daily Gardener | August 3, 2020

by Frank Lebby Stanton Go along, Mister Winter- Crawl into your frosty bed.  I’m longing like a lover For the watermelon red. — Frank Lebby Stanton, American lyricist   As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Frank Lebby Stanton Related posts: Summer is…

Charles Simic

Watermelons

By The Daily Gardener | August 3, 2020

by Charles Simic  Green Buddhas On the fruit stand We eat the smile And spit out the teeth. — Charles Simic, American-Serbian Poet, Watermelons   As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest, most beautiful words of all. Related posts: Three Flowers Eating The Summer is No Longer Alive…

Ode to Watermelon

Ode to Watermelon

By The Daily Gardener | August 3, 2020

by Anonymous Up from the South, by boat and train.  Now comes the King of Fruits again;  Lucious feast for judge or felon,  Glorious, sun-kissed Watermelon;  Green as emerald in its rind, But cutting through it thou shalt find  Sweetest mass of crimson beauty Tempting angels from their duty. — Ode to Watermelon, anonymous  …

Charles Bukowski

Watermelon

By The Daily Gardener | August 3, 2020

by Charles Bukowski And the windows opened that night, A ceiling dripped the sweat Of a tin god,  And I sat eating a watermelon All false red, Water like slow-running  Tears, And I spit out seeds And swallowed seeds, And I kept thinking I’m a fool I’m a fool To eat this Watermelon, But I…

Rasmenia Massoud

August Weather

By The Daily Gardener | August 2, 2020

by Rasmenia Massoud August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes. — Rasmenia Massoud, author and short story writer, August Weather   As featured onThe Daily Gardener podcast: Words inspired by the garden are the sweetest,…

As August, So February

As August, So February

By The Daily Gardener | August 2, 2020

by Anonymous As August, so February. If the first week in August is unusually warm,  The winter will be white and long. So many August fogs, so many winter mists For every fog in August, There will be a snowfall in winter. Observe on what day in August the first heavy fog occurs, and expect…

Fairest of the Months

Fairest of the Months

By The Daily Gardener | August 1, 2020

by R. Combe Miller Fairest of the months!  Ripe summer’s Queen  The hey-day of the year  With robes that gleam with sunny sheen  Sweet August doth appear.  — R. Combe Miller, English poet and clergyman, Fairest of the Months     Note: August 1st is Lammas Day (“La-MA-ss”). Lammas was a festival that celebrated the…

Celia Laighton Thaxter

August

By The Daily Gardener | August 1, 2020

by Celia Laighton Thaxter Buttercup nodded and said good-bye, Clover and Daisy went off together, But the fragrant Waterlilies lie Yet moored in the golden August weather. The swallows chatter about their flight, The cricket chirps like a rare good fellow, The asters twinkle in clusters bright, While the corn grows ripe and the apples…

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