Former PBS Gardener Shares His Gardening Stories Through Poems

These poems by C.B. Anderson are from the Society of Classical Poets, founded by Evan Mantyk. The Society is dedicated to reviving traditional poetry.

Late spring flowers in the Belfast Botanic Gardens, Northern Ireland. Albert Bridge/CC BY-SA 2.0

Here are three poems by C.B. Anderson.

Growing Pains

“Let’s grow some vegetables.”  It sounded good At first, so we prepared the soil the way The cloth-bound garden book advised we should, Then sowed our seeds and set out plants the day

And month they indicated on their chart. The seeds emerged on schedule, all the plants Took root, and waiting seemed the hardest part … Until one morning we observed by chance