The Summer Palace - Michael Leunig

Here is a poignant and suitably garden-wise poem to mark the passing of one year and the beginning of the New.  I love Leunig's work and this one is my favourite.  None of us are exempt from difficult events and experiences but what a great lesson in resilience and hope from the garden - allow those things to die and turn them into something that is productive and hopeful. Here's to a great Summer Palace.    

THE SUMMER PALACE

Make a little garden in your pocket,


Fill your cuffs with radishes and rocket,


Let a passionfruit crawl up your thigh,


Grow some oregano in your fly.


Make a steamy compost of your fears,


Trickle irrigate your life with tears,


Let your troubled mind become a trellis,


Turn your heart into a summer palace

(Used with permission: For his other work go to  http://www.leunig.com.au/)