poem- seeds

poem- seeds September 10, 2016

Filed under: Poetry — Shawn L. Bird @ 11:56 am

A phrase here

A phrase there

peppered in conversation

on the page of a book

or a passing bus ad

Catches

in the fertile soil of imagination

A story roots

and grows

releases seeds of its own.

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13 Responses to “poem- seeds”

righteousbruin9 Says:
September 10, 2016 at 7:24 pm
One never knows when a word will unleash oceans of thought.

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  September 11, 2016 at 9:12 pm
  🙂
  
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- Dina Says:
  September 13, 2016 at 3:50 am
  🙂
  
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Hawksword Says:
September 11, 2016 at 1:50 am
I am in need of a seed that will root. All mine falling on barren soil right now.

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  September 11, 2016 at 9:13 pm
  I spent the summer reading. I found quite a few seeds I need to plant. 🙂
  
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erbiage Says:
September 11, 2016 at 11:56 pm
Give them what they need, and let them go
sunlight+water=grow
look on them with wonder, for this is a miracle

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Seeds | erbiage Says:
September 12, 2016 at 12:23 am
[…] reed about Seed, specifically Shawn Poem Seeds which then led me to this: Seed Pods which is a blog by a sculptor. Now as a general rule i […]

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Rusty Says:
September 12, 2016 at 10:43 am
Writing

Anxiously, I laugh as I fill this hefty, blank
page with raging letters, covertly forming
words that spill through the warp and weft
of interwoven ink, staining the remaining
page with sounds (soft or shrill)
and fury (frenetic or still)
that aesthetically wrap around
the nascent poetic paragraph.

Rusty Taylor
December 14, 2008

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  September 12, 2016 at 7:53 pm
  Nice, Rusty. Thanks for sharing.
  
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colonialist Says:
September 13, 2016 at 2:55 pm
They can lead to brilliant poetry or prose, or if the seeds are of weeds, to gossip …

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- Shawn L. Bird Says:
  September 14, 2016 at 9:35 am
  Literary gossip. That sounds delightful!
  
  “Psst! Did you hear what Emily and Charlotte Bronte were up to last night?” 😉
  
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  - colonialist Says:
    September 14, 2016 at 11:39 am
    ‘Yes, what I heard was that Emily lured Willie Thackeray away so that Charlotte could chat up some curate or other.’
  - Shawn L. Bird Says:
    September 14, 2016 at 11:46 am
    and THEIR BROTHER!! Tsk tsk!