Poetic Asides Poem-A-Day April Challenge Day 7: Love/Anti-Love poem

Longing

I built a small rock garden next to the stone patio, just steps away

from the old kitchen with its nineteen thirties

cabinets that have doors that wouldn’t close refusing to keep

their ghosts locked; I didn’t go far searching, I used the stones

that lay in the backyard, most of them flat –

parts of what once was a perfect border – now buried

underneath the overgrown lawn, when scraped clean their gray

 showed the sparkle in it; the rest –  that

I would like to think were left behind when the frozen

waters retreated melting some years before my time – formed

the crescent-shaped foundation upon which

 I piled the flat ones, building what resembled an Irish wall of sorts,

my small rock garden becoming more of a raised bed, a vessel to be

filled with fresh dirt, parsley and dill seeds

when spring comes after the long wait; on top of the wall

I put two stones with words imprinted on them, the kind they sell

at nurseries, a gift,  “hope” read the one,

the other “joy”, I seem to have misplaced the third one –

“love”.

Live for the Love of it,

Sasha A. Palmer ("Happy")

written for Poetic Asides