Marion’s Garden Of Hope Poem by Don Winslow

Last year’s garden was bleak,
A few annuals were all she could do,
Mammograms and Mastectomies, Radiation and Reconstruction,
They took up most of her time.

This year’s sun is stronger and brighter,
She’s planting perennials now,
Marigold and Meadowsweet, Rudbeckia and Rose of Sharon,
Perennials for all those years to come!
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“Last year” was 2006. Marion was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, broke her hip a few days later. Obviously it was not a good year.
She is a Master Gardener and really missed getting her hands in the dirt for an entire season. What was even worse for her was watching me trying to follow her directions to get a few plants in the ground.
2007 was much, much better. That’s when the poem was born. My only problem in writing it was finding names of Perennials that started with M and R.