The old and new

This post is travelling in the garden then to future seeds, and thoughts of neglect.

Gladioli leaves well weathered to the left, sedum heads, autumn joy, have stayed strong through all the rain. Today, I cut them back and saw primroses blooming.

This year, 2024, the blossom hasn’t experienced frost yet, which led me to think of a topic for a ‘new to me structure’ for a poem.

It is a tricube poem apparently created/ invented by Philip Lattea in 2001 to be concise and focused. The tricube has :

Three stanzas with each stanza a complete thought

Each stanza has three lines

Each line of the poem has 3 syllables

So thinking about plants coming up and changes in temperature, I wrote this tricube.

Garden seeds
Make me smile
Sleep longer

Frost may come
You will burn
Sleep a while.

Winter short
Not at all
Seeds be still.

Then, coming inside from the garden, the vases with blossom I used in a previous post were still in position.

Neglect : fail to care for properly.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J.K. Rowling

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

H. Rider Haggard

It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words of Christ to fallacies of human production.

E.G. White

We have had a lot of rain, and the skies are still full of more. It was pleasant working in the garden for an hour or so it is needing much more attention.

Take care.

Sandy 🙂