Plant and Sing

-------Plant and Sing-------

From solitude

erupts 

the joyful noise

of spring.

Like soul music;

like the digger inside.

Shovel-ready, we plant;

we sing.

Labors grace

is means and muse

of the artists

callused hands.

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Seasons

-------Seasons-------

An autumn rose 

     placed her seeds 

          upon my chest,

where Winter took them

     like memories

          into the earth,

to sprout again come Spring.

And leaves to rise 

     to shade 

          the herbs below,

when the light is right in Summer.

Fruit 

     and Fall 

          again 

the seeds;

the righteous seeds,

of a never 

     dying 

          love.

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One Song

-------One Song-------

As daylight faded with the freeze,

the smoke from a cigarette was in mix with her breathe, 

like fog over water,

and the wind came in all directions, to the center where I stood,

on the edge 

of the lake 

at dusk.

It only takes 

one song,

at the right moment,

to remind us 

we hold 

the Spring

already.

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Sugar Water

-------Sugar Water-------

Like sugar in water

the becoming 

of 

spring 

is 

slow,

sweet and persistent just enough

to see 

it 

through 

the 

snow.

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A Lonely Seed

-------A Lonely Seed-------

Take this anger you are feeling

like a lonely seed

and sow it among good company.

There,

the vigilance of Love

may turn it

               into

                    flowers.

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