Seed to Earth–an Environmental Poem

May 10, 2019

Seed to Earth–an Environmental Poem

a poem of life

sunflower field — https://unsplash.com/photos/pF_2lrjWiJE

Fruit trees drop them one, two, three…we twist some free.
Flesh-juice skinned; we wipe the sugary
dribble from our chins.

Time melts flesh from the fallen in weathered decay,
seed to earth to green in the flowering
seasonal swing of things
life continues still.

Pine trees drop them one, two three…
serotinous and resin-rich, pregnant with seed,
Flame sets them free!
Bud scales open petal-wide, exposing knobby core.

Life springs from ash, the earth peeled clean
blackened trunks rising like pillars of ghosts,
awaiting wing and chirp and beak.
Some birds prefer to nest in post-fire trees.

Time heals the scorched, the black, the white-ash grays
to leak green and leaf forth in the wake of flame
growth anew and spirit churning
Life continues, still.

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Poetry

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Christina M. Ward

Poet, author of “organic”

One response to “Seed to Earth–an Environmental Poem”

utahan15

May 11, 2019 at 1:00 pm

rain wet
breathes
feeds
the plants
weeds
and wanted
hew mow
and sow
something in
a straight
line then
second youngest son of mine
then!

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