{"id":710,"date":"2022-05-04T23:39:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T04:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rythmicchimney.org\/staging\/2056\/?page_id=710"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T22:59:10","slug":"mamas-flower-garden","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rythmicchimney.org\/staging\/2056\/mamas-flower-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama&#8217;s Flower Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This poem was written for my precious mother.  I remember when I first read it to her, she cried.  I am so glad I was able to share it with her.  She was my best friend, then and forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rythmicchimney.org\/staging\/2056\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_51541.jpg?resize=844%2C1362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-715\" width=\"844\" height=\"1362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rythmicchimney.org\/staging\/2056\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_51541.jpg?w=308&amp;ssl=1 308w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rythmicchimney.org\/staging\/2056\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_51541.jpg?resize=186%2C300&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">All around outside the dwelling \nWhere my mom and dad reside\nIs my Mama's flower garden\nIt's her greatest joy and pride.\n\nFrom early spring the flowers blossom\nTill autumn's frost brings winter's chill\nAll up and down the walkway\nAlong the driveway, down the hill.\n\nYellow daffodils in springtime\nAnd blue asters in the fall,\nIris, hollyhocks, and daisies\nConfederate roses standing tall.\n\nFrom early spring till summer's ended\nMama coaxes them to grow.  \nThey dare not do less than their best\nBecause she loves them so.\n\nBright butterflies and honeybees\nMidst the blossoms fly around\nCause they know in Mama's garden\nThere the sweetest nectar's found.\n\nWe go walking in the evening\nShe likes to linger by each plant\nTelling how it came to be there\nEach one's origin recant.\n\n\"There's the fern from off the creek bank,\nGardinia sweet of Georgia clay.\nThen there's the bush of rambling roses \nFrom Grandma Dixon's old home place.\n\nThat Crape Myrtle was a cutting\nFrom the one my mama had.\nStood near the fence around the garden\nThat was built by your granddad.\n\nOh, there's the graduation plant!\nIt blooms crimson every May.\nRemember, there I took your picture \nOn your graduation day.\"\n\nSometimes pausing, Mama stoops down\nPulls a weed that's taken root.\nThen she'll say, \"Must be a million\nI have pulled up of these shoots!\"\n\nBut they're all jealous of the flowers,\nEvery thistle, briar, and weed.\nIt's Mama's touch they've been a craving\nSince the time they were a seed.\n\nOften times on summer evenings\nWe all sit out on the porch,\nAs the grandkids all chase fireflies\nTo put inside an old fruit quart.\n\nHow we enjoy these precious moments\nOur memory presses every bloom,\nAs Mama's garden fills our senses\nWith its fragrant sweet perfume.\n\n                                                 <em> by Yvonne Golden<\/em>\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This poem was written for my precious mother. 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