lenten journal: wildflowers
the wildflower patch is coming
back for an encore performance
after last year’s inaugural run
right now everything is a verdant
vibrant and bloomless array of
weeds and flowers, best I can tell
so I hesitate to pull anything
up by the roots because I just
might be pulling up wildflowers
from the highways of my youth
I remember fields of bluebonnets
surely weeds were among them
is it reason enough to pull up
what I don’t recognize because
it’s not something I planted
Peace,
Milton
Thank you for this poem. I have often wondered by what measure we decide that some plants are worthwhile and others, “weeds” are not. I appreciate your writing.
I found your blog on RevGalBlogPals and have read a few of your entries. Your writing is very moving. Thanks so much for this blog. Blessings!