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Celebrating the power and beauty of culinary plants
Friday 2nd May 2025
Ten Poems about Herbs
We love herbs for their fragrance and for their taste. They can be food or medicine or perfume. In these enticing poems, it seems that herbs have other powers too; they can remind us of the past and they can make us think of love – sometimes both at the same time.
We encounter mint and basil growing by a roadside in the Mediterranean, garden marjoram covered in bees and the headiness of wild garlic in an English woodland. Wherever they grow, herbs seem to stop us in our tracks, asking us to bend to pick a stem or simply to rub their scent onto our fingers.
Perhaps this is what herbs are for: to make time stand still as we pause for a moment to wonder at their wild beauty.