What my flowers told me!

This is an old post I'm linking to Jingle poetry for this weeks theme " Nature"I’ve been thinking about my flowers, how beautiful they look even though I barely tended to them this year. Is it a metaphor for life I wonder?

Every year I baby them; watering daily, administering constant shots of Miracle grow! Usually by July my petunias are pretty seedy looking and need to be cut back.

This year I barely paid any attention to them…a first ever. Some in the back yard died; the tender delicate ones. However the strong ones in the front flourished beyond belief looking more beautiful than ever. Despite having less water, fertilizer, pruning, weeding and love!

I keep thinking there is a huge lesson here! Nature’s true lesson inspired this poem. This is what my flowers told me!

In my own time

Indulge me time to grow alone

Find my way, flourish in the sun

Tend to me on occasion

So I may know I matter

For the most part

I can do it on my own

Trust me that I will prevail

Slower than expected

Eventually, in my time

I will bloom well beyond

Your imagination

The way the universe expects

Chance that I may not make it

But if I do, I will be stronger

More resilient and beautiful

Than even you could envision

I will make you proud

In my own time!

This my response in my own words!

Apology of Appreciation

I feel so blessed that you rose above the weeds

Choking out the twines of wild cordons

Incorporating them so beautifully into your foliage

Thank you for doing with less sustenance this year

I was low on nurture, tending to other demands

I may have given more had I not been so depleted

I feel honored by your mere essence of grandeur

You survived on so much less this year

Yet you never seemed discouraged

Even without my assistance

You’ve managed to rise above

To stand along those who received more

I’m satisfied that it took you slightly longer

To fulfill your splendor

And I’m even more proud

That you did it mostly on your own!

If you click on the last picture of Geraniums it will enlarge so you can see the little rock placed in the planter. It’s been there since the season started, it says “inspire” and indeed it did!