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The Garden Path
The garden path took years to lay ,using discarded bricks and quarry tiles and builders' rubble,nothing ever wasted a thing of beauty like the patch-work quilts which kept us warm on winter nights; each day it grew a little longer ,from the back door to the cold frame and its tomato plants made of bits of wood which could be spared from the kitchen fire.
Mixed bricks and slabs
laid in careful random
years collecting in the making
none discarded, each
a different story;
a builder changed a tile
his cart filled with rubble,
gravel from the road men,
nothing wasted all of value,
Pieces in a puzzle,
none a perfect match,
some forcing here and there.
Not a penny spent or wasted
mosaics to rival Rome,
dry feet to hang the washing.
Mixed bricks and slabs
laid in careful random
years collecting in the making
none discarded, each
a different story;
a builder changed a tile
his cart filled with rubble,
gravel from the road men,
nothing wasted all of value,
Pieces in a puzzle,
none a perfect match,
some forcing here and there.
Not a penny spent or wasted
mosaics to rival Rome,
dry feet to hang the washing.
Published 14th Jul 2016
| Edited 16th Jul 2016
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14th Jul 2016 10:54pm
14th Jul 2016 10:59pm
Thankyou Sweet Oblivion such garden paths were to be found in all housing estates
16th Jul 2016 9:18am
The garden path at once strikes me as an erudite metaphor for the path of each life, of each endeavor. The "discarded bricks and quarry tiles and builders' rubble" strike me as the solid reality of our lives of plans that go awry of loss and confusion. The sadness and the beauty of lives that are finite, lived amidst the wreckage that we ourselves also comprise.
"pieces in a puzzle,
none a perfect match"
This is simply beautiful and graceful. Such shades of meaning in your writes. I always try to understand and appreciate them, as they deserve.
"pieces in a puzzle,
none a perfect match"
This is simply beautiful and graceful. Such shades of meaning in your writes. I always try to understand and appreciate them, as they deserve.
25th Jul 2016 3:44pm
