Poetry Friday - Seeding?

          It's Poetry Friday, and Tanita S. Davis is hosting on her website, Fiction, Instead of Lies!  Find it here! She says today that she and her Poetry Sisters will be sharing their work for their March challenge next week!  It's a new form they're writing, so be sure to read, note, and then try it, too!           

         In addition, Tanita is sharing some of the history of protest songs, including a new one, by Heidi Wilson, "Hold On". It's one to know, then sing! 

            Thanks for hosting, and for sharing this loving post, Tanita!

          Because it seems to be spring and nearing summer, yet it's only March (in the eighties this week), I've been thinking of seeds, yes the kind that go into the earth, but after some musing, I wonder if we could change some thoughts and ponder those seeds that are planted in people, young ones and older ones, too!

        And, did you know that right here in Colorado is the Ft. Knox of seed vaults? Here's an article from NPR about it! And, here's a later one on YouTube! I wonder if there is a Ft. Knox of seed vaults in our brains, keeping everything the same MO, no allowing for intervention and change? Or, could there be newly modified "seeds", known or unknown, sitting, waiting to be introduced? 

Here is my older granddaughter, age one! She'll be 17 in a few weeks!
What seeds have grown in her? 

I’m always Questioning

 

Is there safety in seeds?

Are they ingrown,

With an earthbound slide

That’s theirs alone?

My wistful wonder,

like human choice,

Would violets prefer

A rose’s voice?

             Linda Baie ©

 

Did you know that this Friday, March 20th is the International Day of Happiness? 

Grab some "happy" this week everyone! I imagine we all need it!