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By Chance or Appointment - 3. Garden Reflection
Companion plantings mutually spur
prosperity in neighbors side by side,
as they their own peculiar gifts confer
upon the stalk or bloom with whom they bide;
and so it is with us sojourners here
in finding others rooted in our days
that through each season, every passing year,
new joys emerge to flower and upraise.
So wonder then, that hatred’s bitter seeds
find welcome in community’s rich soil
to choke all sweeter fruit with noxious weeds
while charity and love are left to spoil.
Let not this be the garden we would tend,
but rather grow in beauty, friend to friend.
One sonnet is a lonely thing. Let me encourage you to write one of your own to join this one. In any event, I thank you for taking time to read this.
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Note: While authors are asked to place warnings on their stories for some moderated content, everyone has different thresholds, and it is your responsibility as a reader to avoid stories or stop reading if something bothers you.
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