I Have Planted Seeds
I Have Planted Seeds
I have planted seeds when earth and I were young
And prone embraced the clouds and drunk the sky,
Melded my rhythms to soar with wingéd ones
As grew within my signal destiny.
Infinitesimal flowers spoke to me
Of beauty known to sage and saint and seer
And the brown land smiled as I felt her quickened pulse
When spring burst forth the glory of her year.
All seasons hold me in their mystic thrall,
Days of frost and ice are crystals seen
And snow the blanket lovingly draped across
Her body, protector of all the future’s green.
Long have I watched the pageantry displayed
By gracious hand bestowing on the eye
The irised prism of fragrant flower fields
And noble trees enrobed in majesty.
Remembered visions recall the lupine’s blue
And sunflowers turning mile on speechless mile,
Pebbled gems in the Colorado’s flow
The still and silent crane in sunlight’s smile.
So great a joy held close within the breast
And even now in destruction’s rapid pace
As earth lies wounded by unconscious hands
I see the bluebirds feed a nestling race.
What gift of Grace to feel in matter’s core
The healing touch, the divinising change
