It's amazing how some things just fall into place when you are looking for inspiration -- like finding my little frog yesterday.
Recently, I began reading a blog I found on Blotanical called Esther's Boring Garden Blog, written by Esther Montgomery in the UK (It's anything BUT boring, by the way). Today, she mentioned that many garden bloggers apparently follow a tradition called Monday Muse, whereby they post a poem on that day.
It just so happens that I am reading a vintage gardening book called "Gardening on Nothing a Year" written by Mary S. Griffith and published back in 1937. There, when I turned the page to Chapter IV, I found my inspiration! It begins with this poem, written by Christopher Morley:
My Favorite Flowers
The yellow orchid why discuss,
When you can eat asparagus!
What stained-glass window could repeat
The red-veined leafage of the beet?
What delicately mottled green
Is in the humble, honest bean,
And what a balm for sin and grief
The crisp and curly lettuce leaf!
The corn, in green, translucent files,
Shimmers like cathedral aisles,
The cabbage that the frost has touched
Is like a pigeon's throat unsmutched.
An onion, if you hold your nose,
Is marvelous as any rose!
What a wonderful little poem! Vegetables ARE my favorite flowers at this point in my gardening life! And this is my Monday Muse! Thanks Esther!
Rocking poem! As for onions, I have learned to love the smell of them in my old age, so I hold them as dear as any rose and I don't hold my nose.
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Thanks, David!
ReplyDeleteAs for onions, Kakdah will put on glasses as she slices them. Not for the smell .... cheers! ~ bangchik
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