Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLANTING THE MEADOW, by MARY MAKOFSKE First Line: I leave the formal garden of schedules Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | ||||||||
I leave the formal garden of schedules where hours hedge me, clip the errant sprigs of thought, and day after day, a boxwood topiary hunt chases a green fox never caught. No voice calls me to order as I enter a dream of meadow, kneel to earth and, moving east to west, second the motion only of the sun. I plant frail seedlings in the unplowed field, trusting the wildness hidden in their hearts. Spring light sprawls across false indigo and hyssop, daisies, flax. Clouds form, dissolve, withhold or promise rain. In time, outside of time, the unkempt afternoons fill up with flowers. Copyright 2001 by The Modern Poetry Association. This poem appears in the April 2001 issue of Poetry Magazine. http://poetrymagazine.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON IN FIELDS OF SUMMER by GALWAY KINNELL THE NIGHTINGALE by PAUL VERLAINE |
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