A PALM TREE - Living to Endure
I am a palm tree; A perfect blend of past, present and future,I love storms; Theyre exciting; Within them I am alive -
Because they are within me; And as such become a force for beauty;
Reaffirming my resolve to strengthen the trunk of my spine -- So that it bends in such weather,
Dancing with the wind about one's soul's circumference to keep from breaking;
So that as my roots dig yet deeper, further into the soil of a wretched past;
My palms reach upward caressing heaven's aura --To bless the wings of gulls stooped in prayer;
Seeking to envelope the future, my future; My world expands beyond the light;
As I see, I see that one begets the other - And growth is not an accident.
Neither is wholeness; But a real journey from the earth's very core - out into the universe --
My universe, my journey, my core; And pain is just one of my many, many teachers.
Emmitta
COTTON SKY
I look up and see Cotton Candy skies;Forming bridges and gaps off the Hudson's horizon,
How chilling and beautifully so,
The exodus of clouds across the sky can be;
How exciting! God is a surrealist -
Painting the soft so it can co-exist with the substantive
As the sky unfolds its veil,
In a tumbling aquatic blue backdrop of ombring colors
So the dark at the top of the evening, straight up -
Sneaks into an aqua pastel,
This in turn greets the pinks and oranges of the day;
Only to Exit - thriving within the dancing light of DUSK.
EM (UWS) 1978
