Garden Poem

After the death of my sister I used to dwell in my garden for hours, in my back yard and little did I know how much it had to offer. There is always time to reflect in our beautiful surroundings. Most of life's beautiful secrets are in your back garden where there are no material objects, where only peace and love exists.

This Secret Garden

© Sophia Joy
The river that exists in my back garden was all but untouched by the tips of my toes in the middle of summer.
Days and days went by where nothing but beads of sweat were drawn from the moisture in the vacant dusty long days and endless nights.

Sitting on boulders in the middle of a crystal river, complaisantly singing about life and all the sweet nothings it comprises of.
Sweet nothings that mean nothing sweet to anyone else.

The water intrudes the spaces in-between my toes and washes away the afternoon game of adventure seeker, pleasure seeker and the earth’s own secret keeper.
Every thing surrounding me is green and lush and full of life and mystical wonder and elegant and outstretching arms.

My lyrical recitation of the place was sober and sere.
My words, they do not linger long, they don’t linger here,
For they are carried out in song into the auburn sunset that catches fire through the tangled trees of this secret garden of mine.

I think I’ve found the place where my mind will willingly take me back forever with just one desirable wish.
A place where sleep exists without weeping.
A place where the tree’s are welcoming with their scent of pine.
This place is the secret garden of mine.



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Published: Apr 2011

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