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age, beauty, chaos, dandelions, disorder, flower, flower bed, flowers, Garden, gardener, ivy, legacy, life, love, natural, nature, order, planting, plants, poetry, seed, topiary, trees
The Gardener
Pruning weeds she snips
At the unwanted growth
Protruding from corners
Disrupting orderliness
Blossoming where they should not
She snips at imperfections.
Raking leaves, fallen mess,
Seeking to marr her creation,
As the seasons pass her by
Every day a new task
To maintain this monotony
New buds ripped up,
Thrown to rot.
She wakes one day,
Realises this is no longer right,
Now in blossoms, weeds,
She can find beauty,
There is wonder in wildness,
Majesty in disorder.
She still snips, prunes,
With a more delicate touch,
But only where the wildness
Threatens to take the life
Away from those it threatens,
Where it will strangle
Or envelop irrevocably.
She lets the dandelions blossom,
Until they spray wish-seeds,
The Forget-me-not bloom,
Pastel reminders,
Hazel and Ivy spread and cover,
The stones that make her home,
Straight marching hedgerows
Shoot electric-shock hair.
She watches her work,
With a smile, knowing she can
Rest when she is done,
The garden will live on,
Changing form with the seasons,
Even without her care.
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