Dedicated to Terry James Booker
A dragon’s roar can
be heard centuries after
his flame fizzled out.
Tag: Poetry
8th Lesson
What is tragedy
to you, is prosperity
to lodgepole pine.
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7th Lesson
Eucalyptus seeds
require fire to grow
do not blow them out.
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6th Lesson
Do not judge a rose
against a sequoia’s height
or ivy’s green climb
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5th Lesson
Continue to reach
upwards, outwards, beyond you
past sapling soil
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Fourth Lesson
If you cannot grow
through it, take your time and grow
around it, spread out.
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Third Lesson
Fauna hide their young
underneath their tangled corpses
weed and watch them bloom
