Patient Unfurling

Exotic flower blooming by the beach in Santa Cruz, California.

Patient Unfurling

5/13/11

Life is a waiting game,

at least part of it,

there's no hurrying plant cycles

though vital nutrients determine growth,

effect strength, size, blossom, fruit,

but actual time of turning

in seed, seedling, sapling, tree

with dormant periods of containment

takes into account myriad influences

dependent on season, environment, resources,

let alone greater climate changes

that call for inner adaptation

whenever cellular level becomes confused

by mixed messages prompting system

to advance, though prematurely so,

flowering gets met by frost,

rain laden winds, before bees

have chance to thoroughly pollinate,

and harvest can suffer loss

due to surprising extreme weather,

wherein farmers, growers, become mystics

intently listening to inner muse

who can read tea leaves,

signs, interpret the secret codes

which spell out good fortune

in future's potently patient unfurling.