I Made You an Electric Garden

I Made You an Electric Garden...because I could. Because Memories come in all Colors. 

Because I love you. Because I want you to smile! Because I want you to look!

ramblin rose...

Spring and all its flowers...

Spring and all its flowers
now joyously break their vow of silence.
It is time for celebration, not for lying low;
You too -- weed out those roots of sadness from your heart.

Hafiz

1320-1389

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Spring

Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
 With richness;
What is all this juice and all this joy?
   A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning
 In Eden garden

selected lines from Gerard Manley Hopkin's poem "Spring" (1918)

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Letting Growth Have Its Way

Letting Growth Have Its Way 

How many times the light changes

in the day—shines— 

casts the forgotten 

back to shadow. 

In the hills I see

trees and they are 

lovely. I sometimes 

weave a way through 

their canopies and roots. 

But what compels me 

from this present distance 

is their collective shape— 

a body laid out in total 

surrender to earth and sky. 

Oh, if my body was that body. 

If I could lay myself down, 

let growth have its way. 

© Sarah Harwell

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