<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576429" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Gardener's Curse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This lapidary labor stirs a curse<br>Like sculpting marble blocks with callused hands<br>And polishing the surface to rehearse<br>Set ranks of wayward words the verse demands<br>To play an emerald tune on emerald line<br>And signify above the duple beat<br>Some metaphor that holds to the design<br>Or at hairpin turn, makes its sense complete.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poems are never final, just abandoned, <br>As artifacts beyond minute repair, <br>Vainly arranged, then grudgingly stranded: <br>A moment's monument—a grasp to share.<br>Like Adam's Curse, to carve in stone means pain, <br>But only heart creates: the opened vein.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+F+Dougherty">William F Dougherty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=576429" data-title="The Gardener's Curse de William F Dougherty" data-description="This lapidary labor stirs a curse Like sculpting marble blocks with callused hands And polishing the surface to rehearse Set ranks of wayward words the verse demands To play an emerald tune on emerald line And signify above the duple beat Some met..."></div> </div> </div>

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