Art/Poetry Mash-Up: GARDEN

Bruce has painted and written about all seasons in their many aspects. Spring in particular, with its themes of birth and growth and its profusion of color, has appeared in his work as a metaphor for artistic inspiration and expression. Casting himself as a gardener in the poem Garden and the painting Green Thumb, he makes plain his reverence for nature and its status as a source of his restless creative energy.

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GARDEN

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I
Am in my garden

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Bringing out all the
Most
Ambitious plants . . . . .

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To their full potential

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Soil Smell haunts
My nostrils

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The green perfume

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Shatters
My boredom

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Scatters it . . . . .

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Across
The yard . . .

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Pardoning the . .

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Huge
Hydrangeas

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AS

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IT

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PASSES

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My boredom

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Is gone

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By the end
Of the day

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Lost

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In a

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Paradise

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Of

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Growing
Things

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Green Thumb
Mixed media on canvas, 28″ x 14″

Artwork and poetry copyright 2009 Bruce MacGibeny. All rights reserved.

See more art/poetry mash-ups:

• Art/Poetry Mash-Up: Marbles
• Art/Poetry Mash-Up: Contrast
• Art/Poetry Mash-Up: Change
• Art/Poetry Mash-Up: The Clock
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