Poems! Poems everybody!

Rooftop Garden

Hauling the heavy earth was the hardest part
Slow steps burdened by soil
Bringing the earth to the sky
Next the boxes,
Garden Builder, Sky Farmer
An oasis in the urban, like a
Sunflower in the cracked asphalt.
And then the planting.
Pressing small seeds in the soft soil
Fecund and waiting, an expectation of
Gifts to come.
Nurturing the swift shoots,
Fragile green children, growing and ripening
in the slow march of summer days.
The lazy buzz of insects among the haunches
of sun-dappled vegetables in a fading light
A ripe tomato cupped in a brown hand
This will do
This is good

This is a first draft that I'm working on to give to a friend who just moved and is planning a garden.

Thoughts?

peace,
Noodleboy