Poetry In Motion

Very often the term Poetry in Motion is used to describe anything other than gardening. When you watch a seed sprout, then nurture it as it grows and comes into bloom. You are watching Poetry in Motion. I Love working in my garden because this is when I feel very close to God. Here are some poems that describe the stirrings in my heart when I walk through my own little Garden of Eden. I hope you enjoy them!
 
 

MIRACLE We muse on miracles who look But lightly on a rose! Who gives it fragrance or the glint Of glory that it shows? Who holds it here between the sky And earth's rain-softened sod? The miracle of one pale rose Is proof enough of God! Edith Daley

I SAW GOD WASH THE WORLD I saw God wash the world last night With his sweet showers on high, And then, when morning came, I saw  Him hang it out to dry. He washed each tiny blade of grass And every trembling tree; He flung his showers against the hill, And swept the billowing sea. The white rose is a cleaner white The red rose is more red, Since God washed every fragrant face And put them all to bed. There's not a bird, there's not a bee That wing along the way But is a cleaner bird and bee Than it was yesterday. I saw God wash the world last night. Ah, would he had washed me As clean of all my dust and dirt As that old white birch tree. William L. Stidger

HE WHO OWNS A GARDEN He who owns a garden, However small it be, Whose hands have planted in it Flower or Bush or Tree; He who watches patiently The growth from nurtured, Who thrills a newly opened bloom Is very close to God  Katherine Edelman

Quotes...

I do not believe in God, for that implies an effort of the will - I see God Everywhere! . . . Jean Favre

The sea is God's thoughts spread out . . . Charles Morgan

God is an utterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul . . .Jean Paul Richter

It is only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God . . .Henry David Thoreau

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