Monday, January 22, 2018

A Collection of Tweets


Needlepoint in Concrete


Needlepoint in concrete
Nature makes its mark
Stitch by stitch


Photo by Robynne Limoges




The Tulip Wears a Crown

Not just regal in its bearing The tulip wears a crown Howsoever brief a monarch For all the world to see




Painting by Sir Peter Blake



Life Goes On ... And on

One hen forms a single egg
But a thousand hens
Perform a widening spiral
So life goes on ... and on





O Biomass That Gives the Lie


O biomass that gives the lie
Just how unsentient am I
Compared to your restless
Branches and shoots always
Reaching for the empty sky
And the obverse truth
Of your rhizomes and roots
Pursuing their destiny underfoot



(Drawing by David Harrison)



I Am the Nebulae

I am the nebulae
Upon first springing to life
I am the seven sisters still
Weeping within our cluster
I am the purest stardust
Shimmering even before it
Has been given a name









The Virus of Life


A green pandemic
Spring breaks out
Attacking the willow first
In a virulent virus of life


Painting by David Harrison



The Whorl of Life


Bared of its leaves
The winter oak persists
With its dancing
Bared to the wind
And to snow
All the better
It commits itself
To the whorl of life





Painting by Martin Jacobson



What She Saw in the Trees

A copse that might be
Copulating just as well
Denuded of leaves
Trunks leaning into
Each other forward
And aft alive to the
Thought that together
We are made a much greater
Living and heaving mass


By Georgia O'Keefe



The Leaning Trees

The trees just seemed
To be leaning into each other
On the road ahead as
If all together they had
Bowed in homage to those who
Had walked this road before



By David Harrison




The Lotus of all Travelers


On the pole boat

The Lotus of all travelers
Makes its way
Not stuck in the mud
But propelled by 
The simple act of
Reaching skyward 

















Poem for Odilon Redon



I dreamed of blue poppies

Dying to release their fragrance

They drooped and sighed

And when morning came

Up to the very edge of night

The stems were bare and

The blossoms gone from sight





Poem for Gunnar Norman


A tree may be seen
As a leaf enlarged
In the right texture of light
Its trunk is but a giant stem
To hold the sum of all
Its leafy parts








Tweet for the Almost Full Moon




Whatever sense of order we possess

We owe to you Sister Moon
Reflective yet teaching us
To live more in the moment
Accepting of a fullness 
For which we always come
Either too late or too soon














Poem for #MotivationWednesday

In the ovaries of time
Every pebble is an egg
Destined to hatch
Bringing forth
New treasures
In the 3,000 realms 
Of Suchness
So diverse in kind





A Tweet for Matisse

Quod est desideratum
So the old master said
As he finagled death
With still more art
After taking to bed





A Shout Out to the Forest

The forest is no prison
But misprision to despair
The gathered trunks
Pose no bar to freedom
But serve as herald 
Of no constraint


A Tweet to the Rocky Coast

To the rocks
The waves paid
Obeisance
Showing homage
To the sheer endurance
Of the stolid earth




A Tweet to Energy's Passage


On a cellular level or
As viewed from outer space
The ghost map of our world 
Reveals the same scene of
Energy coursing through
The world's many veins






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