TOMORROW’S LOVE
Where's true love gone?
Here yesterday, gone today:
Sown love, please be true:
Love sown by a supreme heart
Always germinates its fruit:-
"Flowers fade and decay through wintry hours- waiting for rebirth."
Quote by - Constance La France
Each season has its own highlights
Flower life starts at the roadside
Coltsfoot, which humans classify as weed
A lovely sign of spring
Shrubs, trees and flowers come to life
everything germinates and grows
wood anemone, crocus and snowdrops
- a spot in the garden
Plants maintain the balance of life
Choosing a favorite is hard
Summer is a glorious spectacle
- when the blossoms explode
Time for a long hibernation
Preparing for the coming frost
Winter plants ice roses on the window
- creates sense of wonder
The decay and rebirth cycle
means everything is connected
With strength back into every living cell
- It feels as pure magic
The seed of freedom is curtailed,
germinates interrupted,
the harvest is delayed...
The fruit of freedom
may take time to be harvested,
but it is worth every stoic sacrifice...
We cultivate God,
ending wars,
celebrating peace,
living life with love!
The sands of time dripping,
leaves and flowers wilting.
natural wisdom flowing!
Wisdom consists simply in...
knowing how to plant well,
cultivate, and harvest...!
Giving Caesar what is his,
is not ignominy, submission, it is
fulfilling temporal law, without being a doormat...!
When the seed of fear is planted in minds,
It germinates in brains as a tormentor—
Sometimes sown by a whisper,
a shadow,
a lie repeated twice.
When illusion becomes reality,
And starts by making the heart
skip a beat,
then more of its beats,
then all of its beat.
It creates monsters in our eyes in the dark,
Born from our own imaginations.
And it can make them fly,
swirl,
drawl,
crawl,
and do anything—
Make our hairs stand on end,
Our feet walk on eggshells,
on a slippery slope.
It can crimp us into a shrimp.
When it creeps into our grip,
It brings a nice gift of heebie-jeebies—
That send us on a purposeless,
directionless meander,
Like a chicken with head just severed
and left unrestrained.
Fear teaches our hands to fight,
And reaches our legs to take flight,
But it’s never patient to judge us right,
Even when fear is out of sight.
When the seed of fear is well tendered,
Fear can even make us no longer
fear fear.
When its taproot has eaten deep
into the hypothalamus,
Then the mind is already gnawed by monsters
That, time and again, we created
out of nothing.
Karma that patient gangster
Very slow in action
But never fails to repay
Creeps into your life
Paying in double all your deeds
After replaying all your acts
Karma is just like a seed well planted in a good soil, it always germinates.
Karma the avenger
Rewarding your deeds accordingly
Either good or bad
The seeds you sowed
That's what you will get
Not what you need or wish to own
You can't plant yam then harvest cassava
Almighty God is for all not for anyone
That's why he's the ALL in ALL fighting for and rewarding all deeds.
Karma the life teacher
Saying you're what you do
For a goat can never give birth to a lion
You can't run away or hide
From your shadow forever
Whatever is in the dark
Always comes to the light with time
When you think it's over, karma comes visiting
Making you start all over again taking everything you didn't own genuinely.
TO POETIC REAPING
In the mind’s garden,
the poem of poems, germinates
in its fertile soil:
The poem’s ripening word-fruits
seeded with enlightenment:-
May poetic grace
be reaped from rhythmic sows
of flowing guidance:-
May poetic words
be cultivated throughout
all of the seasons:-
In the mind’s garden
may inspirational grace
forever blossom:
And may encouraging light
ever be sun-shined:-
Praises be to God
for fertilizing my mind’s
poetic garden:-
When trust is planted
it germinates
before it percolates
and rounds into belief
FAITHFULLY OVERCOMING
(A Senryu Quartet)
Leaves of pain falling...
Waterfall agony flows...
Healing faith sown...
Sowed faith germinates,
Sprouting in all its fullness;
Healing grace blooming:-
Hope's fruits ripening,
Their juice healing bitterness;
Faithfull healing reaped:-
We reap what we sow;
germinated faith heals all
in her great harvest:-
FAITHFULLY OVERCOMING
(A Senryu Quartet)
Leaves of pain falling...
Waterfall agony flows...
Healing faith sown...
Sowed faith germinates,
Sprouting in all its fullness;
Healing grace blooming:-
Hope's fruits ripening,
Their juice healing bitterness;
Faithfull healing reaped:-
We reap what we sow;
germinated faith heals all
in her great harvest:-
IMANI: Kwanza Thoughts For Today
seeds of faith must grow,
fertile soil germinates faith;
Be that soil of faith:-
We must live our faith...
We must be our faith's heartbeat...
Let's blossom daily...
Faith is for living,
Let's plow rows of faith;
Fruitfully growing:-
N.B.: Amani na upendo;
Be a spiritual rock,
Rolling onward in your faith:-
P.S.: May my Kwanza clusterings,
Tease your AI ponderings;
NI awareness rooted:-
slow strangulation
osmotically penetrating
the very fabric of our being
stymied before fear germinates
simply by our nonchalant observation
plateaus off the sunken vibration
which we look at slowly ebbing
disengaging from our ego
such are silent battles we wage
moment to moment, day by day
that we may dwell in light of Self
Deep in the earth, a tiny seed
Lies dormant, awaiting its chance to feed
On sunshine, water, nurturing care
To grow and bloom, its beauty to share
This seed of hope, so small and shy
Contains within it the power to thrive
With patience and love, it will unfold
And flourish into a vibrant whole
Though the journey may be long and hard
And obstacles may fill our path
We too carry within us a seed of hope
That germinates through faith and optimism's scope
So let us tend to this precious seed
With tenderness, love, and empathy
And give it all the water, sunshine, and air
To grow into a wondrous affair
For though the darkness may seem so bleak
And our hearts pounded sore and weak
We still have strength within us to cope
Thanks to the seed of hope, old as hope.
POETIC ESSENCE
a creative
impulse
on the spur
of the moment
in drops
of poetic essence
spontaneous
& prolific
from the workings
of the heart
to distil
into
another’s mind
A painting
with words
uttered
one by one
to another
an experience
of the wind &rain
of ordinary life
An
intimate invitation
to stroll within
& behind the veil,
’neath inspiration’s
triumphal arch
there
to share & participate
in the raw reality
of the creative
drive of another
A vision enhanced
by mutual
experience
of each
One thing
leads to another
translating
awareness of new
& deeper meaning
germinates
the empathy
orchestrates
the chords
as together
explore
the world
of the poetic
Paisley at my bosom, soft head tadpoles
Wrapped dependent, rest in trust cherubic
Teeth buds plump palms grip my knee, betrothal
Chatter germinates language sporadic
Gurgled contentment, vowel upswings strangle
Trance silence slumps little limbs from frantic
Pure rapture adoration fresh angle
Rock A Baby slobbered face romantic
Blossomed brood, clan, cluster, fan club gaggle
Toddle boldly confident beyond skill
Awe for mundane magnifies appraisal
Frustration annulled, infantile stun still
Sibling envy love wound rigid, rough rope
Petals inseperable open with hope
27th January
Childish desires
One voice it speaks, the forest confides
Its concealed union where it resides
A homeland above, below its essence abides
One voice it speaks, nature’s secret to provide
Winds blow over limb laden trees
As the acorn drops into its fate
Above the knotted, gnarled debris
Into salamander soils to wait
Its whisper does not to hesitate
It germinates unlocking its splendid fruit
To open wide in all its glory to imitate
The guardian family of oak and root
One voice it speaks, the forest confides
Its concealed union where it resides
A homeland above, below its essence abides
One voice it speaks, nature’s secret to provide
April 5, 2022
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