LEAF OPENINGS: A Meditation on Cyclic Existence

Unfurling, without haste,
In a verdant garden—
Petal by petal, leaf by leaf,
Flowers extend their vermillion tongues,
Lifting aureate filaments to the sunlight,
As their stamens rise 
in amber prayers in the spring air.

A flower's thirst is not merely for water,
But for light, and when petals open,
And unfold their silken banners,
It becomes a annunciation—
A phosphorescent incarnation,
A vibrant whisper of becoming.

Yet each flowering phoenix fire,
Must inevitably surrender to gravity's embrace.

Petals fall as fulfilled prayers 
retiring to the earthen womb that nurtures all of us.

There silent whispers 
Metamorphose into living scriptures.

Rot is not ruin, but reformation:
Disintegration is a deep seasonal meditation.

And thus we enter a sacred spiral,
ever unfolding, ever becoming.


Noel:   (with a lopsided grin after hearing a poem) Holy compost, Batman! This poem 
       is a botanical downer! It feels like an eulogy with a floral crown! Is anyone getting funeral vibes?

Tara:   (playfully nudging Noel) Yeah, I was hoping for a beer party, not some poetic compost heap. 

Opapan: (with mirth) Ah, but my restless friends, you're missing the cosmic joke!
       Don't you see? Even compost dances—its rhythm pulses through all that lives.   
       We are literally feasting on a billion beautiful endings every moment.
       Let's dance for endings as joyously as we do for beginnings.  
 

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from Celebrations ah Song: Rejoicing Through Art, Poetry & Narratives with T Newfields
SUMMARY:  Reflections on the cyclical nature of existence, echoing the rhythms of life, death, and rebirth.
KEYWORDS: luminous decay, sacred spirals, green vitality, eternal rhythms, phosphorescent becoming, 
         aureate transformations, transient grace, plant power, ephemeral beauty, 
         metaphysical botany, mycorrhizal wisdom

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2000 in Nagoya, Japan ✶ Finished: 2025 in Shizuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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ESPAÑOL   https://www.tnewfields.info/es/espiral.htm
NIHONGO   https://www.tnewfields.info/jp/rasen.htm
ZHŌNGWÉN  https://www.tnewfields.info/zh/luoxuan.htm