LINES WRITTEN ON CONTEMPLATIVE RETREAT, WHEN THE BLUEBELLS APPEARED
by contemplativeinquiry
BLUEBELL
Growing –
green growing
viriditas
virilitas
I have pushed up through the earth
nurtured by her nutrients
and her moistures,
fuelled by the fires of her core.
I have pushed up through the earth
and out of the earth
out of the earth
skywards
a green stalk
a green stalk in the joy of being
the potency of becoming.
I have pushed up
I have bathed in the sun rain and wind
In the light, open world
pushed up from the nurturing dark below
and am now, in my own being,
the grace of the blue flowers
a profusion …
some open
some opening
some yet to open
some never to open.
All mine. All me.
And in the heart of these abundant
reachings-out,
I am waiting.