My Secret Garden

By Chris Hoskins

My secret garden will have lots of trees Including one with bamboo leaves That will rustle and tease At night fall My secret garden will have water That falters and saunters And freezes and alters At night fall My secret garden will have velvet grass The kind that will surpass Expectations of the animal class Visiting at night fall My secret garden will have flowers With pollen for bees to devour And for me to scan upon the hour Before night fall My secret garden will have a swing Where birds can join with me and sing As we learn a style of courting At night fall My secret garden will have walls Where sleeping cats will sprawl Or hide from brawls As night falls My secret garden is a well kept secret It's a plan so hard to interpret And so I just dream of it At night fall By Chris Hoskins 2006