Wednesday in the garden: Tomatoes and peppers and roses, oh my!
Poetry Sunday: Excerpt from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
In his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for president last Thursday, Vice-President Biden quoted from a work by the great Irish poet Seamus Heaney. I was not familiar with the poem and so I had to look it up. It is from a work entitled The Cure at Troy which was an adaptation by Heaney, written in verse, of Sophocles' play, Philoctetes . Philoctetes was a Greek master archer who was abandoned on a desert island by his fellow soldiers and countrymen and was later asked by the Greeks to return to fight in the Trojan War. The work was published in 1991 and in writing it, Heaney evidently was thinking of "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland. It seems to fit equally well our own troubles of today. It is a poem for all times. Verses from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney Human beings suffer They torture one another, They get hurt and get hard. No poem or play or song Can fully right a wrong Inflicted and endured. The innocent in gaols Beat on their bars together.
You can't complain! Beauty and taste in your garden. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to that first ripe tomato in a few weeks. Until then, there's always fried green tomatoes!
DeleteYou have tomatoes that big already?
ReplyDeleteI bought plants and planted them in February because I felt certain we were going to have an early spring. The trick with growing tomatoes here is to get ahead of the stinkbugs, so planting them as early as possible is the best strategy.
DeleteYou are way, way ahead of me. My tomato seedlings have only just sprouted their true leaves.. :(
ReplyDeleteTomatoes stop producing when it gets very hot and that comes really early here, so we do need a fast start.
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