Saturday 15 August 2015

Time Witnessed



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The seed

Dropped into the heart

Time witnessed

How it writhed

Squirmed and was torn

In silence

Then burst forth

In stem, blooms and thorn

A joy in lines was born

 

Posted for Karin’s Weekend Mini Challenge – Poetry Time! @ Real Toad

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Shared with Poetry Pantry @ Poets United

33 comments:

  1. This is beautiful.. such clarity in such few words. Loved it :D

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  2. time is the most powerful witness

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  3. Such profound lines! Beautifully written :)

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  4. The seed had so much to undergo but the result was marvelous really no pain no gain.

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  5. That waiting.. Only with time the flowers would bloom.

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  6. Often love encounters many obstacles so as it grows the couple establish a defence system to defend each other! That is how it should be.

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  7. I very much like the point of view you have shown here - Time as witness to our writhing...

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  8. I love the wholeness of this poem: how it brings forth "blooms and thorns", not just the pretty bits.

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  9. There is much to be learned of time that we can learn from the farmer, one that understands the land and the natural rhythms of it. And that there is a tearing down that leads to growth. A fundamental change.

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  10. I love how that seed burst forth in stem, blooms and thorn ~ A joy to read this morning Sumana ~

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  11. One thing about seeds -- they can't be stopped from sprouting. I also think about the saying "what you reap, you will sow" for some reason.

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  12. Ah lovely--a lot of births come with difficulty==even a poem! Thanks, Sumana. k.

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  13. so this is how poetry is written. lines grow from a seed nurtured. :)
    very true!

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  14. No matter how many obstacles are there - if you insist and do your thing, it will blossom into something beautiful (as hoped by majority)

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  15. luv the germination process of this poem

    Thanks for dropping in at my Sunday Lime Sumana

    much love...

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  16. How I love this - the bursting forth in stems, bloom and thorn.

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  17. A simple few lines to convey the waiting! This was incredible...I especially loved how the poem grew from the seed.

    Donna@LivingFromHappiness

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  18. This is artfully done, Summa. A wonderful, complex metaphor is so few lines takes real skill.

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  19. Time and a seed. Anything might happen, even a poem.

    Elizabeth

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  20. Birthing something is not easy, but what beauty when it arrives. Lovely words, poetry

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  21. All good things had to go through some difficulties. No plain sailing before getting them!

    Hank

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  22. A lovely write, my partner has been working visually, with the idea of the seed for a while now. A perfect starting place.

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  23. may love and beauty spring forth from each heart. A timeless classic Sumana.

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  24. A beautifully sketched image and wonderful metaphor!

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  25. The satisfaction to see something bloom helps to walk through the bud to bloom process, which can be taxing at times....Awesome write!

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  26. Love does indeed grow like that.

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  27. Very lovely, Sumana. We all bloom into something over time. If we nurture ourselves well, we can become anything we dream. Loved this :)

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  28. I love "Time" as an entity that can witness...brilliant words, Sumana.

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