Here's my entry to WP_Poetry's April poetry contest. The requirements are to create a new poem that contains five of the following words:

Weather, Rainbow, Earth, Health, Foolishness, Humor, Embrace, Honesty, Sibling, Spring, Verdure, Rejuvenate, Awaken. (The bolded words are the one's I chose to use.)

GROWING PAINS

On humbled knees,

damp earth crumbles

from freshly pulled weeds.

Pensive trowel churns

dirt covered words

with red ember burns.

Foolishness pulls

overgrown roots

in angry handfuls.

Heartbroken holes,

left from pulled shoots,

stake sweetheart's paid tolls.

Spring rains tumble,

over verdure

in hands that stumble.

Gardening lovers

embrace, what are

weeds or are flowers—

Sprouts a duty

to tend one's own,

imperfect beauty.