how to get more gold
Sunday, 23. September 2007, 23:55:03
why don't we all automatically know how to turn lead into gold? or why is alchemy so impossible. is it just an analogy for spirtual mastery?
THE EXUBERANT PALM
the exuberant palm
dares the wind to blow
her feathered fronds are bending
as if bliss could be a vision
or, in the calm expectant
loosely letting limbs languish
like actors' arms, gathers
power from the light
then when the howling winds
shake lashing leaves
the limit of endurance
and frowning branches snap
and fly and fall to a remnant
of their original selves
the palm stands humbly counting
fewer arms
and sucking deeply
from the soil
transforms a liquid intoxicant
the mother tree spews forth
fresh shoots to fan the laughing stars
THE EXUBERANT PALM
the exuberant palm
dares the wind to blow
her feathered fronds are bending
as if bliss could be a vision
or, in the calm expectant
loosely letting limbs languish
like actors' arms, gathers
power from the light
then when the howling winds
shake lashing leaves
the limit of endurance
and frowning branches snap
and fly and fall to a remnant
of their original selves
the palm stands humbly counting
fewer arms
and sucking deeply
from the soil
transforms a liquid intoxicant
the mother tree spews forth
fresh shoots to fan the laughing stars
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