Dear tree huggers, bonsai tenders, cactus queens & weed wranglers, it's time for another fortnightly challenge. It seems they've turned into a bit of a thing. I think I'm just avoiding doing the fortnightly curation as I can't live up to @minismallholding who does it so well. Once I get a silly idea in my head it's hard to hold back, and I do love how you all join in commenting and getting to know each other, and having a laugh. A little while ago @thebigsweed picked up on an accidental rhyme of mine, which made me compose a Hive Gardener's Poem which you may enjoy.
It'll be easier than the nude challenge I have planned next. Just kidding.
The challenge this week is to write another verse! There's so many gardeners I wanted to include but didn't - @umirais with her banana eating chickens, @afterglow's rice farming, @isdarmady's hydroponics, @sjarvie's agave (there's a rhyme right there), @artemislive's tropical Thailand jungle, @antnn or @samstonehill in France, @mers, @tydynrain, @senorcoconut, @sofs-su, @hindavi in Norway, @oniemaniego's permaculture garden - goodness, there's so many! If you're stuck have a look through the feed and I'm sure you'll find an avid gardener or two you can write about.
The Hive Gardener's Poem
@TheBigSweed's a beet man, it's his favourite tuber
For his love, @Farm-mom, it's flowers that move her
@Plantstoplanks, she's a squash girl - the curlier the better
Baked or stewed, with a good vegan cheddar
@Nikv's more prickly - it's succulents and cacti
And @Qwerrie, they say he's quite the fun-gi
@Nikolina's orchards are bearing beautiful fruits
In the spring, we're cheering when everything shoots
@Goldenoakfarm's bowls are full of beans
Her garden abundant with flowers and greens
@Proto26's a plantophile when he's at home
Pruning his bonsai or talking to a gnome
And @jonyoudyer? Give him weed or a good melon stash
@Edprivat's the gif man - his posts are quite fun
God help him, though, when his potatoes are done
@Luckylaica bears typhoons, flood water & cows
But her garden still provides - goodness knows how!
Us gardeners persevere - we can't go without.
In Australia it's @blingit planting oranges and lemons
Down south @riverflows finds herbs an obsession
@ligayagardener's wrangles microbes galore
@minismallholding's yard has chooks, chillis and more
@bengy's new place is taking shape
We all know the pain of hoe, spade, shovel, pickaxe and rake
- You can write one verse or maximum three, and make sure you don't repeat the same people.
- All entries will receive a @gardenhive upvote
- The best entries will have their verse added to mine, and I will publish entirely in @gardenhive, setting these poets as part beneficiary
- My absolute favourite will win up to 10 HIVE or I may distribute more according to the quality of the entries.
You don't have to be a genius poet to enter - just have fun and connect with others in the chat below!
@plantstoplanks @sofs-su @nikv @owasco @buckaroobaby @farm-mom @thebigsweed @polesinns @andrastia @holisticmom @queenoftheworld @porters @amygoodrich @fanyokami @phoenixwren @anafae @tanjakolader @yolithy24 @andrastia @minismallholding @goldenoakfarm @nateonsteemit @sanjeevm @kennyroy @simplymike @dodovietnam @babeltrips @trangbaby @kaelci @shanibeer @proto26 @ifarmgirl @foxfireorchards @artemislives @edprivat @meesterboom @momogrow @attn @luckylaica @blingit @traisto @skylinebuds @fotostef @tydynrain @hindavi @vibeof100monkeys @samstonehill @anttn
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Come join in on the fun,
don't be a slouch get up off of the couch
Join the Hive Garden Community
If you love nature
and love to nurture
plant a seed, or bush, or possible a fruit tree
and I guarantee you'll be bending at the knee
There's so much to learn and share
but do be aware
we don't take kindly to those that don't care
Content is key and here on #hive it's free
So come and join me and so many others
as we grow and eat like we are all brothers
Sitting at a table together as one
it's good for the soul and so much fun
Oh that was great my friend, I have always loved your poems❤️
Fantastic!!!
A walk lined with green ice, @ifarmgirl revisits once or twice
A cow farm where @generikat's catches moo to get charms
The silent dance near @momogrow's lakes in France
Whoa, that's a nice verse! Thanks for the mention.
The pumpkin house of @samstonehill
includes canals full of rills
In fact, you have obsession for anything that you pick, isn't it ?
Her heart trembles like a river
I wish, one day we will be together at dinner
She always has something to deliver
She is no less than gold and silver
ahaha you know me so well! I do get a bit enthusiastic.... :P
OMG I love your poem soooo much - thanks! Sanjeev - wow! You're quite the poet!
Hello dear @riverflows it is nice fun to enjoy it. I am not an English lady but trying to make a few sentences about the hive gardeners.
@anttn keeps on trying still
growing plants on his window sill
@nikv's cats like to practice
learning sleep on her cactus
@hindavi grows peas
as like tall as trees
but mostly its the rocket
which put hive in her pocket
@hindavi this is brilliant - for someone who isn't a native speaker you absolutely got the rhyme and rhythm spot on!
Ha ha, nice one! Best of luck to everyone, I'm afraid I'll sit this one out... Poems are really not my thing!
Ha yes I imagine many will. Bit of fun anyway!
Probably the most interesting challenge yet!
I was about to say if there is no mention of me with gnomes then I can really keep a lid on it! Obviously I can't!
Sorry, I seem to be at a loss for creative witty words right now.
However, as a child I was a natural poet. Does that still count‽
No it doesn't count. Come on Proto, show us your poet mojo...
Riverflows is our garden mother, our sister.
Her plants never wither.
And she's quite the apothecary.
Of her be wary.
That's a full vote for you 🤪😂😂
Oh, yeah! I've still got it!
Rhyming better with cheddar? You should be taken out the back and shot...
Hehe, I jest, twas very amusing! :0D
In Australia we bastardise our tt - so water is a nasal 'warder'. So in my uncouth, convict country mind, it's 'bedder with cheddar' which is a true rhyme. 😂🤪
Hehe, that's what I call a save!! :0D
For the record, I do pronounce the t... I live with an Englishman and my mother also would kill me. But Jamie does say 'them ones' ... You can take the man out of Kent....
I would have preferred that ! Hahaha :)
That's a really nice idea, I will try to participate ^^
Awesome, please do! It's just a bit of fun...
@senorcoconut weaves its web between the trees
along with his natural human knowledge, re-wilding the concrete society
Who could be more in tune with the Dharma, than @riverflows and all garden community ?
Acts of kindness, without expectations, @hindavi shows us the way - with authentic and mouth-watering recipes...
Water that we all wish for @samstonehill and the lovers of unrestrained Nature
A gorgeous addition!!
Glad you liked it 😊
I really enjoyed doing it, that's a nice idea... Maybe a monthly poem ?
Thanks for mentioned @riverflows
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Oh my @riverflows, thank you for mentioning me here...hahaha, I think I have forgotten how to rhyme .. but let's see..
If I would rhyme a short verse on herbs
@riverflows probably thinks it's @mers
and maybe @ifarmgirl thinks I dare
That it's all the cacti I most care
But what she says is precise and true
Coz I really love @nikv´s garden through and trough
It's the parasites that threatened @afterglow´s crop
Hope he finds a solution for the spongers to stop
This is an amazing poem you made! Yay!
Hahaha ..thanks, this is just for fun! Please come and join in.
It's fun. I tried racking my brain in the morning but none came out, lol! Perhaps my creative bones called in sick without me knowing, lol! Kidding aside, I will try. Hopefully some good rhymes will pop up sooner. Thank you❤
Nice one, it is refreshing to read such a rhyming comment. Good afternoon@