I Have Planted Seeds

I have planted seeds when earth and I were young

And prone embraced the clouds to drink the sky,

Melded my rhythms to soar with winged ones

And slowly grew to learn my 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 the year.

All seasons hold me in their mystic thrall,

Days of frost and ice as crystals seen

And snow the blanket lovingly draped across

Her body, protector of the future's green.

Long have I watched the pageantry displayed

By gracious hand bestowing on the eye

The irised prism of fragrant flowered 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 God to feel in matter's core

The healing touch, the divinising change

Awake in our slumber, the Force within our cells.

The intensity of love exceeds our range

Of human understanding lest we wake

To That which drives the sap, invests the clod,

The light that moves the moon and stirs the stars,

And wakes from matter's trance the living God.

Those intimate with earth attune their eyes

To the Deity's travail in flesh and stone

Enveloping with peace unsullied skies

To greet the nascent day;we must alone

Replant the barren landscape of our lives,

Relearn creation's Word, intone the prayer

That sole can offer meaning to our quest,

And a sacred ground for the Mother's feet prepare.