Sunday 23 October 2011

Life Irrepressible

This  poem captures the struggles of flowers like this brilliantly, and also the struggles of lichens which I have referred to before. It's from a book called Campfire of the Heart, by Noel Davies. Wish I'd written it.


Life irrepressible
green shoots on charred lives
tears that break a drought
a tree rooted in a sheer rock face
grass, its will to thrive
breaking through new bitumen
weeds along the path
that continue to flourish
in the cracks
long after you and I
have passed by

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Some fell upon stony ground

Poppy seeds, smaller than grains of sand, lodge in cracks and stay in their tomb until the spring rains wash away the stone of their dormancy and they rise in glorious colour.