Take a maple seed
It is a minature;
inside you see the tree,
so short hundreds of years
of pushing through a canopy.
Take a seed;
falling through the branches
in a storm, a wind, fall
down, a bouncing
limb by limb
to rest
from the drop
from blue scattered above it
to the green settled dampness
to the brown clay luscious below it.
Suppose its sentence
is to bloom forth & grow
& make a family of infant trees
not seen these parts while camping.
Ah!
20 thoughts on "Take a maple seed"
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Nice 🙂
thank you Coleman 🤪
The exhale of wonder is as your maple seed-lovely!
nice to hear from you! I hope it has been a good year!
I love the idea of creating a poem from a tumbling maple seed!
I had so much fun writing this one, you inspired me throughout it.
I think you wrote an eco-poem.
🖤
Love your choice of formatting for this delightful poem!
Thank you for noticing! Have a wonderful day!
Lovely! Thanks.
I agree with Carrie, I love how your words look like a seed bouncing from bough to bough. This is a beautiful look at a seed who will one day sprout into a majestic tree!
Another fan for all the reasons above. Delightful.
You connect the seed’s journey with the form. Thanks for taking us along! Ah!
I really like the formatting of this poem and how it urges the reading along
right now I’m reminded me of college anatomy and physiology classes
I love this: “Blue scattered” . . . “green settled” . . . “brown clay luscious.” Beautiful imagry, Manny!
thank you Dennis!
I like how the way you shape the poem creates movement. If I were to write my favorite lines down it would be the whole of the poem so I won’t. Truly lovely images.
thank you