Living Art

One might name them gardens
in miniature, thriving with life and
energy, fragrant and heart-stopping
in their form, texture and vibrant colour
those floral shapes of surpassing
beauty. They are glorious works
of living art, pleasing beyond belief
at their jolting vision of a tiny
landscape, a portable Eden
confronting our challenged
sensibilities in a busy world of
distractions and concerns. Their
serene and lovely presence lends
sublime elegance to any setting
far outdistancing the pedestrian
orderly regimented gardens of
tidy beds and boring borders. These
urns containing their very own gardens
reflecting classical antiquity's lore
of ornamenting nature's divinely
enchanting flora have travelled
through the ages, surviving and
flaunting their irreplaceable role to
lovers of nature and living treasures.