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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, Alice Oswald, breath, Buddhism, enlightenment, Germination, meditation, rebirth, Seed, spiritual death, spiritual growth, spiritual rebirth, transformation, UK poet, vision, Yorkshire poet
The penultimate piece was inspired by Alice Oswald‘s, ‘A Winged Seed’. The idea was to write a piece based on the idea of a seed, or a spore, travelling, or germinating.
Enlightening Seeds
Sitting, just sitting…
waiting for illumination.
There is nothing
more that I can do,
other than…
sitting, sitting, waiting
for my head to crack open
in a cacophony of life,
shattered and broken,
to all that I am.
No longer
sitting,
but waiting,
waiting for that explosion of growth,
to rip forth and pull me from mundanity,
and thrust me upon the world;
as what?
I know not,
so I will sit,
and wait,
upon this breath,
of fresh air.
© Enlightening Seeds 21.03.2013
by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm
A germinated seedling (Eranthis hyemalis) emerges from the ground (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Worldly Winds 
To sweetly greet spring. Nice writing.
Thank you – we could do with a bit of spring – we are under quite a bit of snow at the moment – poor birds don’t know what to do with themselves!
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Awww! We’ve been getting flurries and we did have a pile up earlier this week but it was gone by morning. I love winter but this year it’s been a bit long. 🙂
Same over here! Today work is cancelled and the schools are closed, but actually the snow is quite pathetic where I am – I feel a bit of a fraud being at home!!
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this is good i find 🙂
Thank you very much indeed 🙂
Another wonderful poem, Thank you – Resa
Thank you very much 🙂
Alex
Lovely, like the personification, spring? hmmm, I used to be able to remember what that meant 😉
Thank you 🙂
Spring mmmm they are those metal coils that make the bumpy bits in your mattress? I can’t remember any other spring…. 😀
Silent suspenseful seed surely shown. Well done.
Thank you – I just need a little sunshine to encourage sprouting!! 🙂