'Green Side Up' Poem by Linda Winchell

'Green Side Up'



Never claimed to have much of a Green thumb
But I thought I’d try it maybe some day.
So out in the back yard… I began to plant
Tried my hand at this planting thing… anyway.

Don’t know my ups from my downs
But thought I had this planting thing licked.
Yet when I took a gaze out of my windows
Nothing was growing…it all just looked like a bunch of dead sticks.

I planted right…at least I thought I did
Was told …”Now don’t forget Miss Millie …to plant everything green side down.”
But now that I look at all I’ve planted
I don’t think it should be looking… so dead…so brown.

I think old man Roy might have been just playing with me?
Some have said… he’s a bit deaf and feeble in his head.
Might be right …because all of what I’ve planted now
Looks a bit like Roy’s yard….all brown and dead!

By: Linda Winchell
Copyright: 2009

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