Who Has Gathered the Seeds?
Who Has Gathered the Seeds?
“Instinct” Bardic Poetry by Joseph S. Plum
Welcome:
Greetings and welcome to American Bardic Poet.
“Instinct”
The poet’s cabin continues to be covered in snow. I believe he said they got 27 inches! He has been snowed in for days and loves it. His neighbors are bringing him food and checking in on him. This warms my heart because I worry about him in the forest out there by himself during winter. But, as I have come to accept and appreciate over the years, my father is a unique individual living a unique life. And it is his life to live. Living in nature away from society without electricity or indoor plumbing - without modern conveniences - this is his choice to make. It’s the best choice for him and for his poetry.
May we all make the choices that are best for us in this life.
Good journey,
(The poet’s daughter.)
instinct
who has gathered the seeds
that have been eons in the sowing
who has captured the thoughts
which keep the knower from the knowing
who has harvested the silence
from which these words keep on flowing
that through hearing
understanding may lead into a feeling
which is forever showing
infallible instinct to be the source
of all things alive and growing
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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