The hope even in goodbyes A cool night of gentle breezes teases your hair And you fix your hair shyly And you stare back into my eyes And tears are held back Knowing I must go I hold you There on Platform 2 Steam from the train sprays under the wheelset Like a tired sigh…
Category: Faith
The morning everything changed
The Morning Everything Changed An Easter poem by Dave A. Gardener And suddenly In one glorious morn A stone was rolled away Ice yielded to warmth Winter to spring Love’s freedom ring Death flipped to life And everything That is everything Changed Forever. Awakened in the morning, Everything brand new; It was love that won…
Let time
Let time Let time in its winsome sphere Gather what it will But leave its joyful pleasures here Let time in its cruel cascade Drain the youth from the chalice But leave the best of the parade Let time with its driest deserts Lap up the fountains of love But leave the healing of all…
All of nature subdued
All of nature subdued Like the skies that held back water Were suddenly rent in two As the downpour drenched the earth On a park bench with you Soaked to the bone but hearts content For where love is present All of nature’s wrath is subdued
Upon these waves true and tried
Upon these waves true and tried Dance, oh sun, your slivers of gold upon this glassy sea That touch the heart, revive, and enlighten me Cast your colors at eventide Reds and violets across the ocean wide Waste not a moment on waves true and tried To bring me safely to shore And return me…
From rain come flowers
From rain come flowers Oh my love, have I fallen like Rain upon mud-sodden ground That turns your love away From the sun I’ve always found April-soaked puddles Are where May flowers abound See how the one relates to the other Both in spring’s forest Where forgiveness and love Are the sweetest sounds
I will awaken as the spring
I will awaken as the spring Come and live Hoots the owl on the bough Echoing spring’s pulchritudinous vow To drink at the river like the loving deer All the forest begins to cheer Awaken bears from your winter’s rest Provision is here of all the year’s best An abundance to eat Come and be…
The wishing well
The Wishing Well Oh wish us well, Wishing Well When life is bad or life is swell Was my briefest message to tell As I sat there by the well On its old stone wall in the cool of the day To lament the state of my garden by the way For though I missed…
Love being you
Love being you Dear tree, lovely tree Grow as tall as you can be Look upon the clear blue sky And be freed from your prison Of asking why Why the seasons treat you so Why the wind blows you to and fro But grow your roots deep in me And just love Being a…
I will be with you
I will be with you In the coldest darkest night When the way is marked by fright When the path is ambiguous despite Hope that seemed in sight Trust me to be your light You may not be saved from your plight But I promise you I will be with you this night
The Romantic Gardener 