"Ferns cluster around their feet / Like mendicants / Feeding upon the redolent decay."
Now THAT is an elevated and prize winning line, for alliteration, rhythm, and word choice (redolent, mendicants). Brava! Five gold stars, Sue ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Tiny little packages of information about how to make a sequoia tree. Tiny little packages of genetic information that is mind-bendingly complex but works properly time after time. They are almost miraculous little devices, if you think about it.
Favorite lines:
"I stand upon the spongy duff
Of needles shed over a thousand years"
Reminds me of Robert Frost, so good, Sue.
Thank you, Mary.
"Ferns cluster around their feet / Like mendicants / Feeding upon the redolent decay."
Now THAT is an elevated and prize winning line, for alliteration, rhythm, and word choice (redolent, mendicants). Brava! Five gold stars, Sue ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you, Sharron, I do believe you are my most literate and ardent fan.
I believe we are cosmic twins
I would agree with that.
Beautiful.
Sequoias are born rom a seed that looks like a rolled oat, but is smaller.
There's great power in the small.
Tiny little packages of information about how to make a sequoia tree. Tiny little packages of genetic information that is mind-bendingly complex but works properly time after time. They are almost miraculous little devices, if you think about it.
Beautiful poem capturing the majesty of these slumbering giants and our connectivity with them, and them to us.