Alfalfa and Omega

[jisbell00]

Alfalfa and Omega


The vegetable God that I believe in
subsists on light and water. He does not
much bother with how you are feeling, with
what you did Sunday. You are not a lot
on His mind – if He has a mind. But life
on Earth lies in His purview, every speck
of phytoplankton, every bug – like all
the flowering plants, each class of vertebrates,
the DNA that shapes our cells. He drives
through all our mitochondria, and when
we die, we live again. The great wheel spins,
and we turn spinning with it. Light and shade
mark each step in His unperturbed embrace.
 

[Macavity]

Nicely spun John. Love the word choices (including title), which enhance the narrative rather than obscure it. I want to believe in the vegetable god, rather than a vegetating one, and accept that embrace! Science can be so much fun in the words of a wordsmith. Delightful poem.

thank you for sharing John

bw

Phil

[jisbell00]

Thanks Phil, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I had the title first and the poem flowed on from there, naturally enough.

Cheers,
John

[Macavity]

I did John. I like it a great deal.

[jisbell00]

This MS. is really just fave poems of mine randomly jammed in together till I had a volume. But it starts a bit light-hearted, which is always welcome!

Cheers,
John

[ray miller]

Enjoyed the poem. The opening 4 lines do set up an expectation of rhymes, though, which sadly isn't fulfilled.

[jisbell00]

I'd missed that expectation, Ray - thanks for pointing it out.

Cheers,
John