Reciprocity

 -------Reciprocity-------

People are not 

the only ones

who keep the seeds 

of change

Those ideas 

which hold a hope

for potential 

revolution.

Plants 

exchange 

based on need

with other plants and soil

With birds 

and deer

who then convey 

their prayers across the land.

Everywhere

are small reminders

there is

enough for all,

In you am I 

forever

and together

we are free.

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In a Rose

-------In a Rose-------

Ferns unfurl

With Spring's 

becoming

Summer in a rose

Unpetalled 

yet

Still a dream

Stirring 

through the forest.

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Resurrect

 

-------Resurrect-------

 

Few, 

if any,

who speak today

of bootstrap independence

 

Know the art 

of tending land

and cannot feed themselves.

 

Dependent

as the day of birth.

Unmoved 

by humble labor.

 

Before the wage 

we lived with trees

and made our homes from them.

 

We gathered herbs

and spun the fleece

our woolen 

siblings shared.

 

We spoke the language 

of a place 

and then those words were stolen.

 

The Commons 

though

still remain

in my dreams awaiting

 

The Diggers hands

to resurrect

abundance once again.

 

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Undammed

 

-------Undammed-------

 

Rivers 

reflect 

the best of us

 

At once 

both source and ocean

 

Ancient 

and fresh 

and flowing

 

With purpose

and truly free.

 

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Aster

 -------Aster-------

Gold 

and green

and in between

 

The violet dream 

of aster.

 

Summer

unfolding

through fields of spring

 

Like hope

from a child's laughter.

 

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Sweet Spring

 -------Sweet Spring-------

Alder leaves

like an eagle's wings

spread open

in the sunlight

Singing 

sweet from branches,

the budding

of the spring.

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Fortitude haiku

 -------Fortitude haiku-------

From the dry red earth,

From the river

to the sea,

Poppies will blossom.

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