Upon the ground spreads Brave pioneer of the desert sands Paddle-shaped stems In spiny armor Look as if plant fit for here But a closer look in fact Can deceive Upon its crests display Tender yellow crepe paper blossoms Aglow from sun at highest strength In prosperity over harsh climate Teaches one of nature’s great […]
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“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.” –Jean Giraudoux If you have a thriving garden, there’s an orgy in your backyard. Flowers are the sex organs of most plants* and their perfume may be what first brings the revelers. Many flowers—from trees, shrubs, annuals
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Starting with my dad, people have been telling me to Stand Up Straight all my life. He told me. The Army told me. My friends told me, and probably a few enemies. No one ever told me how, until last year, when my chiropractor was moved to show me a little exercise in which I
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She talks to me from my bed Taking four of the five pillows. She is A street-clothed story teller, a poet, An urban fairie, writing words with her tongue For me to see Gauging her tales By the cascading of her ebony tresses She becomes a performance artist Underscored by the music From the stereo
Whether literally or figuratively, reincarnation deserves attention in a rarely considered context. It extends beyond conventional Western thinking by assuming that previous and future lives are elements of a threaded ongoing reality. This begs the question of how one feeds the desire to recover intellectual, emotional, and physical health. What happens when someone strives to
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broken thoughts burrow down deep into bed with lies both keep residence in the part of my brain where discernment lived before he went off to war. *** Linda Battson is a writer and artist living in Austin, Texas. She spends her days selling pens and her nights engaged with those she loves. Linda enjoys