July 15

Plucky

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Tiny seed settles in a crack

Dormant during the winter storms

Emerging from the dark tarmac

As the cold solid soil warms

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Strongly choosing not to conform

Tiny seed settles in a crack

Seemingly bucking all the norms

Some folks may be taken aback

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Of course there are a few drawbacks

But tradition doesn’t inform

Tiny seed settles in a crack

Persistently the plant performs

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Through every season she transforms

For success she has quite the knack

While refusing to be uniform

Tiny seed settles in a crack.

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(A Empat Empat Poem)

July 14

Dipsacus fullonum

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With a purple tutu

Covering those sharp spines

Simultaneously

Attracting, repelling

Roadside weed, food for bees

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Glistens with summer dew

Used to comb wool so fine

Grows spontaneously

Endlessly compelling

Now here from overseas

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Armored dangerously

Growing and excelling

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(A Rimas Dissolutas Poem)

July 11

Bug of Courage

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Spotted a flower

Spotted a bug

Bug off

Bug out

Out and about

Out of the blue

Blue-eyed girl

Blue in the face

Face to face

Face value

Value judgement

Value of hard work

Work both ways

Works like a dream

Dream on

Dream come true

True blue

True love

Love is blind

Love of my life

Life of the party

Life is good

Good to go

Good and plenty

Plenty of fish

Plenty of exercise

Exercise caution

Exercise daily

Daily meditation

Daily grind

Grind your gears

Grind to a halt

Halt production

Halt in my tracks

Tracks down

Tracks in the snow

Snow on the mountain

Snow White

White knuckle

White magic

Magic bullet

Magic moment

Moment in time

Moment of truth

Truth hurts

Truth is courage

Courage to love

Courage to trust

Trust

Love

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(A Blitz Poem)

July 9

Splitting Thoughts

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Here the dark dead cells of the tree are the strongest

It is no coincidence it is called heartwood

Tough while the softness around it is peeled apart

Many times the heartwood does not last the longest

Silently rotting leaving a void where strength once stood

Invisibly weakened by life, so goes the heart

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(An Italian Sestet)

July 10, 2018

Religion

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Marbled sunset is my stained glass

I have faith in the sassafras

my parish is the biomass

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to the orthodoxy of nature I am beholden

humbled by the buzzing bee in the sunflower golden

the feisty spirit of the small chipmunk does embolden

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Eternity I find

in rocky shore line

and how stars align

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Nature’s dogma guides

her rules I abide

through each moon and tide

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Scripture in leaf veins

bright bird song ordains

cathedral in rains

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(A Christ-in-a-rhyme Poem)