Never Satisfied
Through grim grey months of winter
I long for the rebirth of green,
complain at the late arrival
of birds and bees, leaves and flowers
In May, overwhelmed
by half-remembered greens
in diversity to blind us,
I complain at rapid growth of the lawn
For dVerse Monday Quadrille – 44 words using green
Vivinfrance's Blog 
we’ve got no lawn in our garden, just plants and flowers and tortoises! lovely poem 🙂
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Now THAT’s what I call a garden!
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That’s called being human, I think! 🙂
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It takes my husband most of the day to cut our grass – more if he goes up higher and uses the brush cutter – and, as he’s only here at weekends, it takes up a big chunk of time. Still, I have suggested we get a gardener – just for the grass and weeds – but he won’t hear of it in case they do something he doesn’t like. You can’t help some people.
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🙂 Jock cuts ours in half an hour – thank God for downsizing. My daughter cultivates a hay meadow instead of a lawn, for the insects and for the beauty of the whildflowers – perhaps your husband could be persuaded down that path?
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Trust me, there is still plenty of space left for the insects and wildflowers (and moles and wild boar). We have a lot of garden but quite a bit of it is very steep (hence no ride-on) so he mostly confines himself to the first two terraces and then brush cuts the top once a year to make it look inhabited and to keep our ‘extreme dog walking’ path clear.
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Bon courage to your husband.
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Well drawn verses, Viv.
I’ve not forgotten your offer to read the new story . . . One more chapter to do.
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Wow, bring it on.
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Ha. How true is that? 🙂
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My health dictates I must pay a gardener to mow & weed, which heightens my bliss at the yard & garden’s beauty; but yes, some of us would complain if they hung us with a new rope.
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Tut tut, Viv, be of good cheer because tomorrow it’s going to rain!
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how true – I noticed the horse chestnut candles today
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Aint it the truth!
well said.
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Oh as much I curse the work that comes with spring and summer maintenance, picking up hundreds of sticks from our trees, mowing the lawn, weeding……I wouldn’t trade it for winter.
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Me neither if truth be told.
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Yes we pray for warm weather, forgetting about the work that goes into keeping the backyards and flowerbeds looking decent.
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Heehee. Grass is always greener. 😉 Yes.
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Tis the human condition to long for what is not. At least you don’t need to clamber aboard a ride on mower and snarl and chug around 3/4 acre. A pocket handkerchief of grass is nice…
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WInks.. i juSt lET
thE DandeLions
gRow anD
sMiLe
aT diSdain
oF neighbor
pain over the
beauty oF
WeedFReED..:)
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Dandelions and daisies are so cheerful.
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Yes! Yellow
Sunshine
sMiLes..:)!
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Isn’t that human nature, though!
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ah chuckling I am…..living in the midst of the city, 7th floor in a high rise….I remember those days of “oh thank you god for the green and spring” and then three weeks later, “insert-expletive-here we have to mow the lawn again!” 🙂 Great take on the prompt!
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My tongue was in my cheeek …
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I love it when the lawn overflows with green ~ Good thing we have a landscape contractor who mows and keep the grass in check ~
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I was just thinking this morning as I went out to my car for work how I “have to” prune the roses tonight because there are so many that have bloomed and faded already. I could almost complain. Thanks for the reminder that the spring growth is a blessing and the thing to complain about is past for another year. 🙂
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Ha.. yes we long and long for that green, just to curse the growth… that’s why I don’t have a lawn.. a meadow to cut once a year with scythe works just as well.
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I love hay meadows, with all the wildflowers, but as part of our lease we have to keep the grass mown. Fortunately, since downsizing, we have only a midget lawn.
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