Fire Following Flowers

FIRE FOLLOWING FLOWERS BY GWEN KAMMIEN GINOCCHIO, SEPTEMBER 2019 SUFFERING….SOMETHING IGNITES IT, A TERRIBLE ACCIDENT, A DISEASE, A LOSS FLAMES LEAP AND SOAR, SPREAD AND ROAR SCORCHING BODY, MIND AND SOUL YOU THINK THERE IS NO END BUT THEN… THE SEARING PAIN IS NOT SO FIERCE, THE FIRE WANES AND ONLY SMOULDERING HOT SPOTS REMAIN, A SLIGHT WIND MIGHT STIR AND SCATTER EMBERS A MEMORY SWIRLS, THEN SETTLES BUT WE WONDER…. WHAT WAS IT ALL ABOUT? IS THERE ANY MEANING FOR OUR PAIN? ONLY LOOK TO NATURE -- AND THE FIRE FOLLOWING FLOWERS SOMETHING WAS DESTROYED, SO SOMETHING NEW COULD GROW THEIR BEAUTY IS RESPLENDENT BORN OF DEVASTATION THE FIRE FOLLOWING FLOWERS BEGIN THEIR GROWTH CYCLE SOON AFTER THE FIRE IS OUT WITH RARE HUES AND DELICATE PETALS THEY HAVE NAMES LIKE COASTAL LOTUS, FIRE POPPY, TURNING SNAPDRAGON AND WHISPERING BELLS THEY ARE BOUNTIFUL AND PRECIOUS LIKE THE GIFTS BORN OF SUFFERING: COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, QUIET STRENGTH LOVE.