Treasure chest
See the possibilities in that junk box
Know how to work with what it is you got
What’s contemptible and base is a gem keepsake
What needs a bit of a fix don’t throw away
Odds and ends can be put to good use again
Before you dismiss vile undesirable men
They’re priceless when given tender loving care
Polished and treated like valuable silverware
Some might castoff savage and unwanted things
Screws, nuts and bolts, such jewels are precious blessings
Be creative use your power tools of innovation
Open your mind to find solutions to problems
Hidden inside the intellect of your heart
Are treasures dear to son of man that some disregard
Life in the beloved garden
In the beginning Deity decreed the way and created the tree of life
Spat into the earth and blew windflowers into being out of dust
Planted daffodils and birch, said be fruitful and multiply maples
Gave them branches and leaves, then came bearing gifts of junipers
Holly be thy name thy berries come thy beauty be shown on hills
As it is in valleys, give us our daylilies and let us form beeches
He sprinkled daisies and spoke blessings upon groves of olive trees
Said let there be and there lilacs blossomed in the morning light
Arched and opened the clouds mouth washing the soils tufted hair
Gave rain narcissus to nurture and sowed all manner of cypress
Grew bearded iris on the face of his garden and budded begonias
For the sun to love, then smiled upon his bloodroots with passion
Bending digging rooting deep from beneath are creepers and ramblers
Ascending Jacob’s ladder crawling vines twisted up the tree of heaven
Twining twigs and woody wisterias hung among tall crown imperials
Stand up, stand out salipiglossis, bring forth glamour grandiflorums
From out of darkness ye moonbeams emerge and praise me among dirt
All ye laurels at early sunrise when wallflowers climb forget-me-not
Beautiful jasmine and the stunning digitalis and an array of asters
Set to rule are practical ministers of a simple nature, radiant on knolls
Honesty and true and fair tulips and again divine blew into fields
Sending aroma moist air on stigmas so gametes reproduced wildflowers
Pollinating a beautiful bountiful mix of colors, sizes, shapes of weeds
See I have given you life yielding seed to garden even that of bamboos
Let them be for seasons as snowdrops in flames of grass then switch
Separate the bolds from mellow yellows even gold in autumn beauty
Divide dwarfs from giants after their own kind and add moor grass
Thou prepare bittersweets, in the presence of thy anemones are blues
Thou anointed thy palms thy buttercups run over the cliffs sedges
He spread love-in-a-mist and dressed the good earth in evergreens
Scattered wild things everywhere naked and unashamed in love grass
Bedded erotics and exotics, seeded pussy willows in muddy pelitics
Agave the most precious thyme for late and early blossoms in schist
Opening eyes and ears communicating hidden secrets all around yew
Placed poplars beside still streams and stowed mangroves in marshes
As crocus and honey locust and clusters of lotus swam in swamps
He sanctified compositions of clovers and opuses of roses on slopes
Choreographed perky pasques happy as can be dancing in adagio
Blessed the sage and harmonized mums and poppies in vast terrain
Quickened paintbrushes on the painter’s palette spattering prairies
Blessings upon viola sonatas, horn concertos and orchestras of orchids
Blessed are bells ringing and trumpets blowing across countryside
Baby’s breath blew flutes and reeds, scents of hyacinth in the heaths
A chorus of pretty peonies and sweet pea under aromatic apricot trees
Blessed is perfuming gardenias ointment counterpointing magnolias
Blessed are colorful camellias bathing in sun’s symphony of meadows
And lavish lavender spilling fragrance and carnations in sediments
For nature shall inherit garments of praise upon scores of landscape
He looked on hibiscus in miscanthus ground of sulphides and oxides
Replenishing respiring spires and vibrant viburnums along rivulets
Unbuttoned boughs of stems and stalks to bloom and blossom in marl
Exhibited a galley of echinacea’s and refreshed ranunculus in talus
Showered fountains on sunflower’s sanctuary in pastures of holy grass
Comforted hemlocks, pines and firs with needles and cones in limestone
Layered rocks in minerals, folded deposits, chiseled chambers of granite
Carved stone and ran veins thru hewn gneiss into astilbe and agastache
Set to rule at dusk shadows, wisps of shade, azaleas and a host of hostas
He heaved a harvest of brilliants, set jewels in an assembly of crystals
Laid crowns and christened upright cedar and counseled common ash
Gave lords and ladies a touch of class, skilled disciples of black oak
