Seeds

February 14, 2019

The Alchemy of Nature

Moisture quickly as it was transformed
into ice crystals gathering together
into vast colonies of snowy white

now slowly melts with less vigor
to alchemize magically resembling
larger pieces of rock salt jewels
piled atop the rust of brown leaves
the green of spiky grass

too soon for evergreens prophesy
when pine cones erupt in wonder
opening layer upon layer bristling
with anticipatory jubilation

will release tiny seeds drifting
down spinning, twirling, settling
upon reaching moist beds of earth

to become like enchanted minions
tiny treasures for mother earth
transfiguring into giants
forest armies of green

Photo Taken From Public Domain Pictures & Created As Art

Evergreen Cones

September 28, 2017

Hidden Sunflower Seeds

In response to Rick Daddario’s 30 DOH/Days of Haiga. Photo taken from the Morgue
File and digitally altered.

Sunflower Beauty

August 23, 2011August 23, 2011

For-Get-Me-Nots

For-Get-Me-Nots grown in my mind
twisting amongst stems and leaves
where thus she planted them
flowers forever are blooming

For-Get-Me-Not seeds lie deep
within my memory of lives woven
fast as the thread of all blankets
wrapped ’round for all eternity

For-Get-Me-Not petals whispering
in my ear..forget me not…forget
me not…please forget me not as
I recall and wipe away a tear

For-Get-Me-Nots within my heart
I listen content to the soft
promises I once so easily made
I will forever not once forget

Just a couple of years before my mother died she sent a Birthday Card, as she had done every year for all of my life, but within held a packet of seeds…For-Get-Me-Nots. In her own way she knew her time was growing short and it was her way of asking me indirectly what she could not ask me. I found a new site that has this name and it brought this to my mind. This is for mom.