The Nursery

Posted on April 8, 2011 | 32 Comments

Spring time is for new life or is it for raking under the freshly dead?
There’s a little life left in the dead for the seedling to suck dry into dust.
The sad tidings are the seedlings are forced to use failed DNA and imprints.
One root after another hitting rock bottom again; more shallow every season.

Maybe a brittle snap of winter will return, supplying more dead for yet newer life.
Some who are perfect escapes the nursery, being transplanted into a new environment.
The fresher soil still steams with nitrogen and oxygen flooding into their roots with new life.
No one knows their fate as the shovels begin to turn the rest of us under again into the void.

© 2011 Michael Yost

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32 responses to “The Nursery”

  1. Jingle | April 8, 2011 at 6:23 AM | Reply

    vivid capture of it.

    welcome…

    Glad to see you in.

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  2. thingy | April 8, 2011 at 6:27 AM | Reply

    Yeah, we never know. I am the weed. I am the flower.

    A very interesting take.

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  3. Jamie Dedes | April 8, 2011 at 7:21 AM | Reply

    Very true. We never do now and somehow I think it’s all of a piece.

    Very well done, Michael. Whenever I return for a visit, I’m delighted to find new growth.

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  4. Teri C | April 8, 2011 at 8:26 AM | Reply

    This is a very realistic view of spring.

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  5. magher1 | April 8, 2011 at 8:43 AM | Reply

    Such is nature… Interesting read!

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  6. Emily Jane | April 8, 2011 at 9:29 AM | Reply

    Interesting topic, great imagery!

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  7. JL Dodge | April 8, 2011 at 1:32 PM | Reply

    A weed is just an unwanted wild flower !!
    Like the read !
    JL&B

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  8. lunawitch15 | April 8, 2011 at 6:57 PM | Reply

    whoa… WOW! loved it!

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  9. lolamouse | April 8, 2011 at 7:28 PM | Reply

    Now this is definitely a different take on spring! I like it!

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  10. sparrowsong | April 8, 2011 at 9:19 PM | Reply

    Great poem!

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  11. Krisse | April 9, 2011 at 4:56 AM | Reply

    And so nothing goes to waste… Lovely, interesting imagery.

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  12. thoughtsnotlost | April 9, 2011 at 8:29 AM | Reply

    Vibrant and well written! Wow!

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  14. Vinay | April 12, 2011 at 11:45 AM | Reply

    beautiful poem about the spring! 🙂 enjoyed it.

    Rally Week 41 – My Poetry

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  15. mypastmademe | April 12, 2011 at 2:58 PM | Reply

    Fantastic … and esp love the last line 🙂

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  16. haggishead | April 13, 2011 at 9:28 AM | Reply

    Really great imagery (don´t know how to write this word 😦 ) well, great anyway! 🙂

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