I Believe in Sunlight Filtering Through Green Leaves
I Believe in Sunlight Filtering Through Green Leaves
“I Believe in Seeds” Bardic Poetry by Joseph S. Plum
Welcome:
Greetings and welcome to American Bardic Poet.
“I Believe in Seeds”
I honor of the double blizzards that just landed in Iowa and covered the poet’s cabin with layers of snow, this week I share a poem about seeds. My accompanying Lupita Portrait painting is also covered in snow - with a rainbow tree of life in the background.
It’s winter now. Spring is coming.
Good journey,
(The poet’s daughter.)
i believe in seeds
i believe in seeds
planted in wild places
in the taste of river mist
and the smell of sages
i believe in mountains
while crossing the borderline
and bridges in the desert
spanning the depths of time
i believe in sunlight
filtering through green leaves
and in shadows of untold winters
hugging the branches of trees
Read about the poet and the bees here.
Read my post regarding punctuation and editing of the poems here.
Read the poem “Wild Wisdom” and a short essay I wrote about the forest here.
This is a page from the book, I Believe in Seeds: Affirmations for Rewilding, made possible by a grant from the BeWildReWild Fund at Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation. This book combines my watercolor paintings with Dad’s poems, and gave me a chance to try something different with punctuation. Also, it was such a beautiful moment when Dad saw my paintings and realized his poems were part of his daughter’s artwork.
I’m grateful.
I’ll write more next week. Hope to see you again then. Please consider sharing this post with someone you think may be interested in Dad’s poetry.
🙏🏼 Thank you for gathering here. May it be a blessing. 🙏🏼
About the Poet
Joseph S. Plum is a poet in the bardic tradition. He lives off-grid in rural Iowa and composes his unique chant-like oral poetry for fascinated audiences around the world. Joe has over 16 hours of oral poetry memorized in his head. He pulls from this collection of rhyming lines to compose poems according to the energy of the audience listening. Joe does all of this without writing the poems down on paper or holding any notes.
Joe’s daughter, Emily Lupita, typed up his poems over the years and launched Dreaming Deer Press to publish his work. He now has nine poetry books for sale on Amazon that can be purchased on Joe’s website - here.
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