There are many attractive features to this poem, Bill, and I appreciate
your use of the form. What you are saying makes the greatest sense to me.
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:38 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> It’s bloody hot round our region at the moment. 26-41 on Friday predicted
> and we have only had 4 mm of rain in the last month. Hence the following
> villanelle.
>
> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
>
> Stand in the shade and let it pour out.
>
> Planting is poetry; watering prose.
>
>
> Beat back the dryness. Soak on. Interpose.
>
> You’re all that stands between lushness and drought.
>
> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
>
>
> Commune with magpies and kookas and crows.
>
> Swat wasps and mosquitoes - keep moving about.
>
> Planting is poetry; watering prose.
>
>
> You don’t need to think, the job’s H20’s.
>
> Be still for a while, be whisper, not shout.
>
> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
>
>
> The task is a matter of pauses and flows.
>
> Some plants you can trust, some leave you in doubt.
>
> Planting is poetry, watering prose.
>
>
> Douse that magnolia you carefully chose.
>
> Celebrate wins - cheer each small green sprout.
>
> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
>
> Planting is poetry; watering prose.
>
>
> bw
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