Agronomy | National Poetry Day 2022

by Adam Smith

A big, bold and beautiful hello to you all on National Poetry Day!

This year’s Poetry Day theme is environment: a concept and subject so enormous, it had me thinking all about our place within not just the world around us, but within the human environment we create for ourselves and one another.

Agronomy is written in a modernised version of the villanelle form, as I felt the theme of environment held with it a sense of history and tradition, whilst also being something that grows and evolves.

I hope my words resonate with you!

We plant only cherished memories in this sacred earth:
watering, tending, ensuring they might grow;
we know not what they’ll one day be worth.

Such times and moments are not guarantees from birth;
our parents try, but they can never truly bestow
that we plant only cherished memories in this sacred earth,

for it is a lesson learnt only in times of little mirth
that our most treasured hours rush by and never slow;
we know not what they’ll one day be worth.

The cruel fate of life is that living is in such dearth –
we fear, we doubt, we wallow in our woe,
and yet we plant only cherished memories in this sacred earth.

Why, then, must we carry such a burdensome curse
to squander the happiest of times, resist our chances to glow?
We know not what they’ll one day be worth

when our roots no longer flourish or so easily traverse,
and all we have are those seeds sown long ago.
We planted only cherished memories in this sacred earth,
and only when our time comes do we know truly what they’re worth.

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