Astral – Feathers of Light
Branches and Seeds – Silver Moon Reach
Trunk – Living Stone, Faery Door and Ring
Roots – Proceeding in Mother’s Shadow
Fruit – Circle of Golden Elixir
Flower – Perfumed Dust of Life
Leaf – Green Veins and Shade
Bud – Strength and Urgency of Ideas
Branches and Seeds – Lunar Cycles of an Open Mind
Astral – Dark Fibrous Reflections
The last line of the Life poem:
“Astral – Dark Fibrous Reflections”
Thank you, Sylvia Thunder Bird
You have hereby raised the bar for bios to a cosmic height, Sylvia. Your background offers a rich sense of why readers should take time to reflect on this and other writing to follow.
My oldest teenage daughter is preparing for a major exam in advance placement biology. Earlier this evening she told me she is most challenged by the sections in her textbook on plants. Think I’ll print out this poem and suggest she use it as a bookmark.
Blessed Be!
Watt, Thank you for shimmering vibrations in your comment. I’m honored that you and your daughter are considering using my “Life” poem as a book mark to encourage a connection to “Spiritual Botany.” That is most satisfying indeed!
Blessings of the Old Ways, Sylvia )O(
P.S. Much appreciated request:
Somehow it got cut off. Could you please add this last line to my “Life” poem?
Astral – Dark Fibrous Reflections
Sylvia,
My screen shows “Astral — Dark Fibrous Reflections” as the last line of a ten-line poem published on this webpage. Is it missing from the page on the screen you are using? Or, are you saying that you want to repeat the line twice, with the poem being eleven lines rather than ten?
Gentle Watt, Thanks for your indulgence …
1. When I press the poetry button on the home page, I see my “Life” poem for the first time, that’s where the last line is missing.
2. When I click on the title of the poem, the page opens to the poem again, and my bio, and that’s where the full poem is revealed.
Hope this makes sense! I appreciate your help and thank you for publishing my two poems. I love the images you have provided for both poems, especially that beautiful thorn circle.
Power to the People, Sylvia )O(
Your song of the day: “London’s Burning” by The Clash.
The poetry button takes you to a page that displays excerpts from the works of many different poets. Clicking each title takes you to the respective work. The excerpt for this Life poem only includes 7 out of the 10 lines in the full poem. Excerpting is done for reasons of space and formatting.
Since our bookstore conversation I’ve been eager to read your first-person account of London’s punk scene during the 70s!