A Green Light Contemplation
Just be like green grass,
Regrowing and regrowing:
Overcoming all:-
Go and be as sage green trees:
Rebirthing justice's green leaves:-
Categories:
regrowing, allegory,
Form: Tanka
The garden you planted is regrowing,
Just like you said it would—
But the desolate husks of last summer’s foliage
Still stand stark;
Everlasting monuments
Of what once was.
Yet time marches on,
And amongst untouched relics of a time long gone,
Milkweed and hydrangeas
Once again revere—
Flourish
In the warm light of life.
Categories:
regrowing, death, depression, emotions, family,
Form: Free verse
Forgiveness,
like trust
and the salvation of heroes
slowly getting back up,
Forgiveness,
of Other
and others
and self,
Forgiveness,
like trust,
and resurrected freedom,
is not instant,
like a package of oatmeal
or grits,
because growing
and regrowing trust
is a process,
like raising flowers,
blossoming in their
and our own
best time for resilient
appreciation,
regeneration,
restoring beauty
and peace
Forgiveness,
like salvation of bruised souls,
isn't all or nothing,
except in those climatic moments
of anger,
when it is nothing,
and except in those climatic moments
of joy,
when it is all
When we are fully engaged
in trusting this place
investing this time
within win/win EarthTribe
mundane sacramental life
Just right
for getting back up
What's left
for giving Other
yet another chance
to not screw us up.
Categories:
regrowing, anxiety, forgiveness, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Regrowing my beard, time for celebration
My CPAP machine was causing frustration
Seems quite okay now
Sleeping better, and how
Once more I'll be the object of the ladies' adoration
Categories:
regrowing, humor,
Form: Limerick
I go back,
reversing imaged time
to when I felt
and knew untrammeled internal space
responsive within external
eternally immortal times
of Earth's regenerative history.
For some,
less fortunate re-imagining,
comparing rights,
contrasting lefts
I hear no such winning exterior ecopolitics
with winning internal empowerment
and self-investment
since emerging from EarthMother's
redundant DNA nurturing womb.
But, for a few,
a time of peace
recalls a later conscious memory,
a time of courageous and curiously restoring justice
to those few relationships
showing early signs of uncreative tension.
These, unusually blessed
with resilient confluence,
may not recognize each other
and yet search for their potential bodhisattva peers,
returning to these childhood experiences
to remember slowly regrowing what went right
and vulnerably wrong
for restoring peace-filled justice
within and without
ego/eco-empowering tipping points,
wealth of healthy co-redemption
For all wombs,
their plantings and yieldings,
now still searching
through past generations
still incarnate in wounds and reweavings
birthing future health-seeking regenerations.
Categories:
regrowing, age, creation, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
LIKE THE SEED THAT FELL IN THE GROUND
AND CHOKED DID NOT GROW
NOR FOOD OUR WATER NOR SUN
WOULD NOURISH IT BACK TO LIFE
LIKE THE SEED THAT FELL
I HAVE FALLINEN TO LEARN
AND KEEP MY SPIRITS ALIVE
I HAVE LET MY JOY BE TAKEN AWAY
LIKE THE SEED THAT HAD FALLEN
ON SOLID GROUND WITH NO MEANS
OF GROWING BUT KNOWING
TO FIGHT AND STRIVE TO SURVIVE
LIKE THE SEED THAT HAD FALLEN
SLOWLY EVOLVING IN SPIRIT AND MIND
RECONCTING WITH THE CREATOR OF THE SUN
REGROWING THAT RELATIONSHIP
THAT OF SOLID GROUND
WERE ALL THINGS WERE PLANTED
AND GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE
LIKE THE SEED THAT HAD FELL FALLEN
I WAS ASKED WHY I LOVE GOD
THE PERSON THAT ASKED TOLD ME GOD TOUCHED ME
Categories:
regrowing, blessing, change, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
You seem unclear,
The fogged-up sky of a dewy morning.
You won't be cleared,
A blurred part of my vision,
A cataract regrowing.
A cancer eating up my soul,
A well dug up hole.
I know what it means to be hollow,
You know how far you echo?
How long must you stay there
defiant in the darkness?
Do you not know somewhere
a glimpse of you is needed?
Why do you stay there in the arms of another,
Knowing I die awaiting your presence?
Even trees have bended wills.
Stars shine at night
why have you chosen the eclipse?
How long must I wait watching generations pass,
Fashion changing,
How long must I sit at the bus stop waiting
like you're coming from the extinct?
Why must you sit, careless that I am shrouded in loneliness?
Deserve I no taste of your lips,
No sense of your perfume, sight of your dress,
No hug to to keep for evening colds?
I need you now or better still my rib,
For I am a log floating hollow on this downy sea.
Categories:
regrowing, soulmate,
Form: Free verse
LIKE THE SEED THAT FELL IN THE GROUND
AND CHOKED DID NOT GROW
NOR FOOD OUR WATER NOR SUN
WOULD NOURISH IT BACK TO LIFE
LIKE THE SEED THAT FELL
I HAVE FALLEN TO LEARN
AND KEEP MY SPIRITS A LIVE
I HAVE LET MY JOY BE TAKEN AWAY
LIKE THE SEED THAT HAD FALLEN
ON SOLID GROUND WITH NO MEANS
OF GROWING BUT KNOWING
TO FIGHT AND STRIVE TO SURVIVE
LIKE THE SEED THAT HAD FALLEN
SLOWLY EVOLVING IN SPIRIT AND MIND
RECONCILING WITH THE CRATER OF THE SUN
REGROWING THAT RELATION SHIP
THAT OF SOLID GROUND
WERE ALL THINGS WERE PLANTED
AND GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE
LIKE THE SEED THAT HAD FELL FALLEN
I WAS ASKED WHY DO YOU LOVE GOD
THE PERSON THAT ASKED TOLD ME GOD TOUCHED ME
Categories:
regrowing, christian, emotions, first love,
Form: Blitz
The stars in the night sky twinkle, but never will they dim.
Small fish in the ocean feel threatend, but never cease to swim.
The leaves on the tree will fall, but never stop regrowing.
The tears in your eyes may continue, but never stop knowing:
You're beautiful and you're strong, no matter what you might thing.
That ride you're on will stay afloat, I promise it won't sink.
Life threw you a curveball and you knocked it out of the park.
You may need a flashlight now, but where you're headed is never dark.
The future is a scary place but it only gets better from here.
No matter how down you feel today, know that inner peace is near.
Categories:
regrowing, beauty, blessing, cheer up,
Form: I do not know?
I'm sitting here in despair,
I used to have so much hair,
At least I've still got a grin,
Perhaps I'll have a lottery win
And get a follicle transplant to repair.
Categories:
regrowing, funny,
Form: Limerick
Regrowing my beard, time for celebration
My CPAP machine was causing frustration
Seems quite okay now
Sleeping better, and how
Once more I'll be the object of the ladies' adoration
© Jack Ellison 2015
Categories:
regrowing, love,
Form: Limerick
just cried
dont feel bad i have nothing to hide
im not hurt really as i am sad
because of what i couldve had
wish i could change it but i cant
wish i could get better easier like a plant
always regrowing so easily like nothing had happened to it
all they have to do is sit
i just wish you wouldve been mine
i would have tried to see you shine
your always on my mind
and always will be like a bind
stuck to my brain never moving all would be fine
although your not going to be mine
ill stay after you forever like a dog
chasing a cat like a human hunts a hog
so dont feel bad
im not all that sad
and dont think
that my love will shrink
i was always there
just like the wind in your hair
and i always will be
oh youll see = )
you will be mine in the end
because i am flexible with time, i can bend
i can wait for you
until your through
but im here to tell you
what im going to do
im going to make you mine no matter what
your not going to shut
me out from your world, ever
because im to clever
to let you slip by this time
ill catch you like a lime
falling from a tree
just to me = )
Categories:
regrowing, love
Form: Free verse