There is this time of hope and uncertainty
After you sow a seed and before
You see a little sapling in its place.
Watering a patch of dirt day after day,
No proof or progress that your eyes can see,
Yet you believe in what it can be,
While on tenterhooks and in turmoil
You hold on to the dream of a mighty tree,
The nobility or the foolishness of that faith
Shall be proved with the fate of that seed.
How out of our hands life can be
Yet in the dark we keep waving hands
And touching walls and things like a blind man,
Trying to understand and maneuver life
And there are some who claim to have done it,
To have figured out how the things work,
Breaking it down in specific steps to follow
Of faith, religion and other magical things
But could it be that you have nurtured a tree
Just because you got lucky?
Could it be just chance and you increase your chances
Only by sowing more and more seeds
And there are no other techniques
None other than the gardening basics.
-N
Daily Prompt – Tenterhooks
Photographer Unknown
Poetry © Copyright 2017, Niharika Jaiswal
December 4, 2017 at 8:56 am
Lovely:)
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December 4, 2017 at 8:57 am
Thank you and thank you for stopping by. 🙂
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December 4, 2017 at 9:50 am
Beautiful!!! I loved it. ♥
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December 4, 2017 at 1:05 pm
I am so glad, Thank you!
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December 4, 2017 at 11:38 am
now is the time to plan gardens for spring
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December 4, 2017 at 1:07 pm
True.. 🙂
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December 4, 2017 at 11:48 am
A different one…..nicely penned…..
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December 4, 2017 at 1:07 pm
Thank you! Your constant support is valuble to me.
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December 4, 2017 at 12:59 pm
sweet!
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December 4, 2017 at 1:07 pm
Thanks jim. 🙂
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December 4, 2017 at 5:47 pm
What a cool symbolic graphic!
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December 5, 2017 at 6:18 am
Thank you so much!
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December 4, 2017 at 5:48 pm
Oh my god, this is just what I needed to hear today and this week, THANK YOU!
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December 4, 2017 at 5:52 pm
I was just sitting in such a place of impatience and frustration – on a treadmill of goals…. thank you for the reminder to relax a little. that not all things are in my hands. That that can’t be helped so no point in stressing unduly. THANK YOU.
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December 5, 2017 at 6:19 am
I am so so sooo glad I could help! 🙂
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December 4, 2017 at 11:11 pm
A deep message in the poem. Each seed has it’s own timing and then we are led through with our timing …indeed it does feel like there are a few basic principles at work here.
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December 5, 2017 at 6:22 am
In deed…Thank you, pragalbha! 🙂
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December 5, 2017 at 6:09 pm
You are very welcome 🙂
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December 6, 2017 at 3:15 am
Well written 😊
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December 6, 2017 at 11:44 am
Thank you! 🙂
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December 18, 2017 at 7:42 pm
Wooo… cutting up a rose, something sinister about that. Deadheading a flower is one thing, but to leave me on ‘tenterhooks’ is another… I’ll leave the Welsh with the Tent-hooks.
Summer down under and its great
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December 23, 2017 at 10:32 pm
That’s one way to look at it…. and now that I think of it I do see your point.
Thank you 🙂
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January 22, 2018 at 11:32 pm
I printed this one out and it is the front of my personal journal. I love the pic. Shows how I feel.
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January 24, 2018 at 8:52 am
Oh god, That means so much to me! 🙂
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February 8, 2018 at 5:50 am
Lovely words, and amazing image. I love taking apart flowers, but this makes me want to slice them into cross-sections!
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February 11, 2018 at 10:32 am
Thank you…. I am a little worried about the flowers though… 🙂
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