Prescribed
Some seeds are buried, others scattered.
April’s wildflower reflects October’s rain.
Bluebonnet, fragrant gaillardia. Texas paintbrush.
Cause and effect is seldom so clear with people.
Left hand offers money, right strikes a match
and the voice sings praise without conviction.
Perhaps we are guileless,
and true motive lies in the completed deed,
underground or above,
blossoming or charred after the burn.
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My poem “Prescribed” was featured in December 2017 at The Clearing, a British online magazine focusing on landscape.
Thanks to editor Michael Malay for taking this one.
O at the Edges 
“Cause and effect is seldom so clear with people.”- humans run along a spectrum of hardy dandelions, complex, fussy, needy, exotic orchids and everything in between. God only knows why.
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A source of much consternation!
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We seldom can quantify our own motives, although we are good at attributing them to others! (K)
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So true! Could we ever trust such quantification?
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I think this one would be perfect on a broadside.
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It’s short enough to fit!
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