Germinated Seed

From Ann Glover O’Dell’s Midwifing the Soul:

A germinated seed

sprouts

and pushing through brown loins

emerges

to the greening wonder.

Second leaf set

manifests the tell-tale traits

of parent plant

and stem grows taller into stalk.

Wind and drought and sometimes too much rain

bend and break and cause disfiguration.

But somehow sensing essence

we know ourselves to be

this tree of life

and  hope to bear good fruit

from roots’ deep reach

into primordial soil.

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