As growing toward arrived full stature
Of mine physical or mental maturity cured
Childhood toward adulthood fully such Grown
---Growing up
~
In developing ageing maturing
So evolving in planted seed
While blooming, flowering, ripening
Getting on, getting along, progressing growing up breed
Burgeoning, blossoming, flourishing
Cross bred a story, placed in history
Energy, then a seed planted growing such
I am growing up
~
Spirit bourgeoning unfolding advancing
I am energy, spirit body, toddler, boy teen now man
Graying, greying grown yet still I am
---Growing up
11/9/23
For Growing Up Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
Dreary, muted Sunday,
wind-blown spaces
snowy and empty:
Boxing day, 8:40 a.m.,
at the local big box store:
unexpectedly, outside the car window:
dull white, grey gulls fly,
disappear --- chameleon-like ---
against intractable, dull white, grey clouds:
hushed, natural intimations of the infinitely bigger picture;
a sudden, bourgeoning sense of the thoroughgoing mystery,
the "way out of the wilderness":
intrigued the human heart beats again roused.