{"id":12421,"date":"2024-04-29T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/?p=12421"},"modified":"2024-04-29T14:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T18:47:53","slug":"garden-song-lily-of-the-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/garden-song-lily-of-the-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Song – Lily – of – the – Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Garden Song \u2013<\/span> Lily of the Valley<\/span>
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\u00a0Poems & Prayers<\/span>
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by Lynda McKinney Lambert<\/h4>\n

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Poem: <\/strong>
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Lily of the Valley<\/em> (tanka)<\/h4>\n

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tiny white bells drip<\/p>\n

after gentle all-night rain<\/p>\n

peek between green leaves<\/p>\n

delicate fragrant flower<\/p>\n

lilies of the valley bloom<\/p>\n

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\u00a9<\/a>Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2024.<\/p>\n

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Backstory:<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

My plan for this morning is\u00a0 to pull weeds in my flower gardens.<\/p>\n

The day is perfect because we had a gentle all-night rain.<\/p>\n

I discovered a surprise when I walked along the sidewalk beside the patch of Lily of the Valley plants.<\/p>\n

I bent over to look at them more closely,\u00a0 The plants have been in this spot since before we moved into this house in the summer of 1967. There are so many plants that they are densly packed together.\u00a0 As I stooped down and reached out to have a closer look, I discovered the dainty little white bells are now open and nicely arranged on the stems they are attached to.\u00a0 My heart felt so happy at that moment, to see them blooming.\u00a0 The fragrance of these little plants is so pleasant.\u00a0 I will pick a little bouquet to bring into my house later today.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2023. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Garden Song \u2013 Lily of the Valley \u00a0Poems & Prayers by Lynda McKinney Lambert     Poem: Lily of the Valley (tanka)   tiny white bells drip after gentle all-night rain peek between green leaves delicate fragrant flower lilies of …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trusting-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gbwn-3el","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7791,"url":"https:\/\/www.lyndalambert.com\/wordpress\/forever-susan-lily-a-poem-by-lynda-mckinney-lambert\/","url_meta":{"origin":12421,"position":0},"title":"Forever, Susan Lily – Poem","author":"Lynda Lambert","date":"December 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Forever, Susan Lily, a poem by Pennsylvania poet, Lynda McKinney Lambert. 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