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A MOTHER'S GARDEN
by Val Magnuson

Just beneath the window pane
A moment in time is suspended
Within a glass frame
Under a blossoming, graceful tangerine branch
A mother's garden flowers dance
Tones of buttercup, heather and periwinkle blue
Are sweetly embroidered in fragrant hues
Amongst them tiny finches flew
All glistened with the morning dew

As the mother tenderly cared for her garden with love
High above earth's muddy breast
An angel watched from above
And called her home
Too soon!
Too soon!
Just as the fragrant lilacs bloomed

The mother had planted perennial love
In her childrens' souls
And as her tangerine tree and flowers grow
Each son and each daughter somehow knows
That Heaven's Garden is grander this year
Because their mother's heart is near
2001

About Val Magnuson
"Visit me at: http://valmagnuson.com and buy one of my poetry books: Destiny, Five Gates, and In the Company of Women"