Can you tell I have trouble with reading books when I should be "doing"? The first poem is because I kept buying books when I had also bought plants for my little front garden but I just looked at them instead of planting them! I'd read about gardens but not "make" one. The second, haiku, was how I "suddenly" :-) noticed it was Spring outside, took my nose out of my books long enough LOL

Choices:

Four books just now added to ten.
Two weeks stall the growth spurt.
Books grow faster than plants.
Dooryard mud lies unbroken.

Mulch the books or read about
How plants grow well in paper gardens?
Mine is a dooryard small and perfect;
Yet potbound pansies cry for earth.

Split am I between two worlds:
Paper and earth compost my soul.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
But sometimes too,
A wasteful thing to mind.

Haiku:

Books are laid aside,
Ashes swept up, the grate cleaned;
The apple tree’s in bloom.