Seeds

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning.
In the seed lies the life and the future.
~ Marion Zimmer Bradley

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses,
what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
~ G.K. Chesterton

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
~ E. B. White

forget me nots

the garden i made
for you went unused
caught between worlds
afraid, you plant neither

the life you think
you should live
nor the one you feel
you don't deseve

you flee to the life
drawn for you
by others expectations,
illusions and need

you pretend you didn't leave
seeds of love and joy behind
spread by gusts of passion
and gentle wisps of joy

you try to forget
the touch of my hands
the safety of my arms
the warmth of my love

maybe I'll plant forget-me-nots
© Joyworks. 2005

Seedsmen reckon that their stock in trade is not seeds at all ... it's optimism.
~ Geoff Hamilton

Sow the living part of yourselves in the furrow of life.
~ Miguel de Unamuno

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

In every failure lies the seeds of success.
~ Deepak Chopra

The seed has no idea of being some particular plant,
but it has its own form and is in perfect harmony with the ground,
with its surroundings . . . and there is no trouble.
This is what we mean by naturalness.
~ Shrunyu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it,
but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
~ George Washington

He places a seed in the dust for the reason
That it may in the day of distress, give fruit.
~ Sadi

A person who sows seed of kindness enjoys a perpetual harvest.
~ Anonymous

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures
not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards
and raise other crops than these?
Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed,
and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.
~ Henry David Thoreau

All seed answer light, but the color is different.
The plant reveals what is in the seed.
~ Ancient Egyptian Proverbs

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store
And the dimes are the things that he needs,
And I've been to buy them in seasons before
But have thought of them merely as seeds;
But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time,
"You purchased a miracle here for a dime."
~ A Package of Seeds by Edgar A. Guest