“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Germination
So they go on, doing the deeds,
rolling the ball they tossed
as if it were not obvious
they were following
where their eyes aimed.
Like an animal behind a tree,
they think I don't see,
and I am partly to blame
for this charade,
a willing blindness,
suspension of attention,
inescapably-
there is a stench,
as overturned dirt
insists on being known
thereby making its presence
the heaviest air in the room.
And like the elephant Ganesha,
she leans in, the earth tilts,
her trunk drops
an apple at my feet.
It is my choice
to open mouth
desirous of a tree,
or keep the seeds inside...
Photo credit by safaritravelplus [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Seed crystals like wildflowers
When wandering one warm day
I happened upon a daisy named Violet.
She was sitting quite peacefully
as purples happen to be muted
when wild.
Quietly she rose,
bending her bulging bodice
leaning her long neck
upward toward dawn in dewy
Pink cheeks, pastel and seeking sun
Glistening
naturally, she begged for admiration amid
these murky velvet green ponds
sequenced with shimmered beads
fishing for focus
in a breeze
She
leads and unfurls
her pinched peach sail
To take in the open air,
To swallow this wishful
Baby's breathe blue day
ahead of the flattened carpet
holding soles atop its rhizome net
keeping us occupied in valleys,
Blades trod on
by ambling and bumbling beings
led with hunger this way,
by a sense of smell
and finding the forgotten flavor of flora
reasonable, enduring, reminiscent of days
when he loves me
not
when she loves me
enough to grow more
meadows made of these
meandering memories
one settles with bees
and spreads
happenstance in destiny's place.
Painting by William Page Atkinson Wells [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
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