Welcome to Poetry Friday! What is Poetry Friday?
This week we are hosted by Carol Here at Beyond Literacy. Like me, Carol has been occupied this week writing a daily poem on Facebook along with author Laura Shovan‘s 13th Annual February Poetry Project. Thank you, Laura for this opportunity!
It’s been fun and the daily prompts have helped me find new ideas that might spark a poem. Plus I get to read the work of other poets.
One prompt asked us to write about small spaces. Hmm.
What came to mind were seeds, which are of course very small spaces filled with blue print of a new plant. Also I thought about how plants seem to adhere to a purpose, they do what they can to have a healthy life.
Plants, unlike us, follow its instruction and have it seems the wisdom to flourish. Unlike us, they don’t get distracted from their mission. They don’t self destruct. They simply grow and become part of a forest.
LAKE TAHOE
REDWOOD SEED
doesn't have the power to think,
feel, see, smell or taste
as it navigates life,
(we are so gifted!)
yet a redwood moves
faithfullY
towards its sacred destiny,
growing taller and wider,
year after year,
decade after decade,
it fits in
among neighbors
and if nature grants it,
it lives a long life.
But as redwoods
tower silently above us
like cathedrals,
human neighbors
spin round and round
in ever more
wasteful
and tragic
circles.
Janice Scully 2025
Thank you, Carole for hosting Poetry Friday. Have a great weekend!