'Where Did My Green Thumb Go? ' Poem by Linda Winchell

Wonder where my green thumb went?
I use to be able to grow most anything!
Now I just sit and hope that I get
anything, to grow that is green!

With winter now coming up quickly
there is nothing outside but brown and grey!
The flowers all gone, and the birds with their songs
so there is no color in my days.

I bought a Mikado plant
it claimed it would have flowers bright yellow.
But all I have seen, is sticks and some green
and some fuzzy molding stuff, going on in the middle!

It said it liked to be kept moist
so I made sure I did just that.
Then to place in the sun, is what it said to have done
but nothing has yet to come
so I think I'll be taking it back!

Now I bought myself some plastic flowers
don't need a green thumb to raise them!
You just slap them in a vase, and put them someplace.
And say there's some kind of a scent, if only plastic pretend!