Marcus Goodyear at
Books & Culture, A Christian Review has given us the following poetry prompt:
Write a poem about cultivation. When I talk about cultivation, I mean agriculture but also creativity and culture itself. I am talking about the little place in your world where you have been given a small plot to grow new things and add to the beauty of God's world.
This then, is where I took it:
A hand holds
seeds, tiny
easy to lose
to the wind
or spill
pouring almost too much
abundance
on soil fertile, hungry
What will grow?
It is the waiting
that hurts
those ruled by impatience
those prone to fret
expecting never the best
So too, what will
these words
bring forth?
Will they be too few
to nourish
or so plentiful
that one groans
under the burden
of consumption
A seed is just a seed
after all
it is in the waiting
for the becoming
that the imagination
blossoms
To read what else Marcus has to say and see the poems that have been cultivated read the entire article
here
