Such a potent evocation of a gardener planting out the seedlings during a shower – and what a wonderful way to render the sensual experience of a rain shower – visually in the colour of the soil, and by its taste. It is almost as if we are sharing the sensation of what it is like to be a seedling ourselves! The poet is totally immersed and connected to her garden and to nature.
I also particularly like how you have inverted the structure of the work. The shorter middle line surrounded by the longer than usual first and final lines gives a sense of the plant growing out of the poem, and the whole work becomes almost a visual representation of the fruitfulness and generativity of the plant's life cycle.
How good the rain water must taste to the flowers. Here in Wisconsin we've had a lot of rain, and last year's drought seems over. A later Spring – the robins returned a little over a week later than last year. The tiny snowdrops bloomed through ice and old leaves. Other flowers in the future . . .
Thanks, everyone for the kind words – and Strider for that marvellous commentary. I shall treasure it.
My delphiniums have succumbed to the change of season (a very long summer has finally changed to autumn) but I did get two flowerings by following the advice I got from the garden centre.
April 22nd, 2013 at 8:43 am
Great middle line that makes the first and last lines fill with resonance beyond the grouping of the words.
Alan
April 22nd, 2013 at 7:02 pm
Marvelous poem Sandra!
Such a potent evocation of a gardener planting out the seedlings during a shower – and what a wonderful way to render the sensual experience of a rain shower – visually in the colour of the soil, and by its taste. It is almost as if we are sharing the sensation of what it is like to be a seedling ourselves! The poet is totally immersed and connected to her garden and to nature.
I also particularly like how you have inverted the structure of the work. The shorter middle line surrounded by the longer than usual first and final lines gives a sense of the plant growing out of the poem, and the whole work becomes almost a visual representation of the fruitfulness and generativity of the plant's life cycle.
Inspired and inspiring haiku!
Strider
April 22nd, 2013 at 8:25 pm
A vivid synesthetic poem, redolent of spring.
April 22nd, 2013 at 8:58 pm
Cold sprinkler drops on toes
California spring.
April 23rd, 2013 at 2:15 am
How good the rain water must taste to the flowers. Here in Wisconsin we've had a lot of rain, and last year's drought seems over. A later Spring – the robins returned a little over a week later than last year. The tiny snowdrops bloomed through ice and old leaves. Other flowers in the future . . .
April 23rd, 2013 at 3:16 am
Thanks, everyone for the kind words – and Strider for that marvellous commentary. I shall treasure it.
My delphiniums have succumbed to the change of season (a very long summer has finally changed to autumn) but I did get two flowerings by following the advice I got from the garden centre.
Thanks too, for taking the time to comment.
April 23rd, 2013 at 3:17 am
Whoops, sorry, that post was from me, Sandra. (Not sure where that odd ID has come from …)
April 23rd, 2013 at 4:38 am
Beautiful! I love gardening in light rain.
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