Poetry: Seeds - by Mary M. Redoutey

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by Mary M. Redoutey

Created on: May 11, 2008

No one ever said that growth was
going to be easy.
Do the seeds like
the feeling of
rapid expansion,
tearing seed coats,
a ripping away and bursting out,
a rooting down and
a springing up
to become?
Is there, as with us,
a feeling of unknowing?
We look at the beauty of spring,
the flowers;
the tender grasses,
and never wonder
about the feelings
of the seeds.

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Poetry: Seeds

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by Heinz Ross

Dew
Sad eyed gold haired princess smiled
at seed she found by chance,
slipped from her hand, fell to the ground,
unaware of
2 of 108

by Adepero Okulaja

The remnant, The seed

My strength is gone from me

Dissipated, exhausted

Swept away, of no use within

Fit only for
3 of 108

by Wanda Harrell

-
With no defined destination
The bounty of flowering seeds
Scatter with purpose to the four winds
In unnoticed flight until
4 of 108

by Ronnie Reese

From radicle to root,
From plumule to sprout,
Using the protein in the cotyledons,
The tiny seed sprouts out!

God's invested
5 of 108

by Chuck Maddock

From the seeds we learn our needs
A seed for a weed will grow anywhere
A seed for food must be tended with care
A seed for

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