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Within the Seeds of Sunflowers

Between the fibers
of this page,
an ancient magic
has been laid

Pressing leaves
with mystical power,
and kissing the corners
to grow sunflowers

Cherish a word
a wish or rhyme,
making it grow
deep in your mind

Taking the letters
that are your divine,
weave them into
a master design

Make your own mold
and pour yourself in,
to not be yourself
is the greater of sins

Feel the earth
beneath your feet,
build your own kingdom
a heartlands retreat

With the gift of hands
you can shape a world,
and the only barrier
is what your mind holds

Sowing the seeds
you collected through life,
tend them with love
they will flourish with light

Dream with your heart
and ever be true,
the universe will gather
just to know you

After searching for faults
letting pride blind my eyes,
I stripped off all masks
to soar a blue sky

Now planting my seed
with love in my sight,
I wish it to flourish
a precious long life

Covering these pages
in tendrils sublime,
Thus binding loves magic
I send it through time

— Seren, Oct 05, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Beyond the Black Stump..Australia, AUS

Favorite Poets: Pablo Neruda, P.K.Page, W.H.Auden, to many and various to include them all ...

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lyz

16 years 8 months ago

3rd of the rank

Wonderful. Send some to me. Lol. I love 2nd + 3rd stanzas, the seeds are tasty too, 7 and 9 stanzas, oh, fuck it, I love the whole lot. lol. We gotta stop meeting like this, everyone is bound to talk. Sorry Snake, are u always the last to know? lmfao. Ok, u can have her back when u put on another poem. lol. Love to you all. Love Lyz, again and again.
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Lyz

I love Sunflowers they are one of my favourite flowers ... lmaoooooooooo snakes been busy looking after everything he hasnt had time to write poetry,but I just nudged him and told him to get his finger out lol he just said he would hunt me down if anyone stole me :O lmaoooooooooooo funny shit !!!! he looks serious ... and he said something I cannot repeat here ... something dirty :) Love and higgest bugs Jayne x x
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Calliope

16 years 8 months ago

Breathtaking!

I absolutely loved this poem,flowing so nicely on the 'fibers of the page'lol,I'm sure many sunflowers will grow from the kiss of your pen.Wonderfully written,Jayne , Lots of love and hugs, Lacy, Where power corrupts,poetry cleanses.
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Lacy

I have been writing lots of sad stuff lately and decided that some sunshine or sunflowers were in order, thanks for your beautiful compliment I hope you and yours are well, I am happier today and this write helped with the setting my head right (huggles) love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x
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Wafi

16 years 8 months ago

Loved This Jayne

Loved this Jayne. Magical, indeed! Feel your words are embracing my heart... Sincerely, Wafi "Culture, location and beliefs; All vanish with love!" ~Afzal Shauq~
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Wafi

I have not seen you round for ages hun ? how are you I hope you and yours are well my friend .. thank you so much for the lovely compliment ... this was meant to create a warm loving feeling and i am glad you felt that too (huggles) love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x x
Candlewitch

Candlewitch

16 years 8 months ago

Dear One

The thing I like best about your short lines is, that they are so deeply profound and full of punch. You say so much with those short lines. My favorite lines: Now planting my seed with love in my sight, I wish it to flourish a precious long life Covering these pages in tendrils sublime, Thus binding loves magic I send it through time I think these are so true of you. Love, Cat
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Cat

I have tried breaking out of my short lines lol but I cannot seem to help it , I always go back and end up doing them anyway ... You are the big sister I always wanted,you know that ... and your one of the people I wrote this one for ... there had been so much negative flying round me lately I decided try and write some smiles with love ... glad you liked this one lol dont know what I would do without you sometimes (huggles) all much love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x
hugo la rosa

hugo la rosa

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Jayne:

This is without doubt the most positive poem I ever read in a long time. Such poetry is what we need to press ahead following our dreams. Excellent, my dear friend. Sincerely. Hugo
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Hugo

That was its intent but I never know if I have gotten them right till I send them out for you wonderful people to read ... dreams are for everyone ... your never too young or old to dream .. hope with faith in dreaming to love ...its all important ... thankyou as always for you kind and thoughtful comment ... you always make me smile ... Love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x x
seabhac

seabhac

16 years 8 months ago

So Beautiful

Hugo said it so well . Beautiful poetry uplifts the greyest day. Your sense of soul magic is profound and love always love. Much love to you Jayne Liz
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Liz

thank you for the read and the comment ... you got it in one this ones soul food of a kind ... thank you for the beautiful compliment .. I wanted to bring a bit of sunshine in sunflowers,love to you and yours huni love and higgest bugs Jayne x x x x
Bonitaj

Bonitaj

16 years 8 months ago

A thing of Beauty ...

is a joy forever! As indeed this piece is and will forever remain! THanks for showing us the flowers that have sprung up along life's path! Excellent as ever Bonita j
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Boni

You are a joy to have here with us your soul and your heart shine in your poetry with such a stunning light and those words coming from you ? are a blessing thank you my friend made my day take care of you and yours with Love Jayne x x
Geezer

Geezer

16 years 8 months ago

Sunflower paper...

I wonder what it would look like? Would it be bright and sunny, like the flower? A thought that blossomed in my head. LOL " Make your own mold, pour yourself in "To not be yourself, is the greatest sin. Oh, how I love those lines! You have written another thought provoking poem, and I love this direction. Love and the higgest of all bugs, ~ Gee
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Gee

if ever this went in a book the picture would be thus ... the paper would be nearly see through and running through would be fibrils of silver fibers creating sunflowers in the paper lol and at the corners sunflowers with petals ... beautiful thought eh ?? hahha lucky I have an active imagination lol glad you liked this one my friend it was meant to brighten everyone up :) and send some love into the world ... love and higgest bugs from downnnnnnnnn under mate lol Jayne x x x
greeneyes

greeneyes

16 years 8 months ago

perfection

What a beautiful poem. I loved every word of it.I love sunflowers. The sunflower is the state flower of kansas and that reminds me of my grandmother who lives there. So it put a smile on my face. Elizabeth
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Elizabeth

Awwwwww thats precious I am glad I reminded you of your Nana,Gave me a big smile then :) ... and I didn't know that Sunflowers were the state flower of Kansas,I should know better all the sunflowers in the Wizard of OZ lol ... I love that movie ... thanks so much for the comment I loved your wolf pack poem today it was wonderful,but you left me wanting more ...!!!! hahaha sooo please can I ahve some more of that :P Love and hugz Jayne x x x
Race_9togo

Race_9togo

16 years 8 months ago

Yah

excellent - wish I had more time to critique, but don't have much to even write, these days. But tell ya what, Oz Lady...u keep writing em, I'll keep enjoying their sheer pleasure. absolutely excellent. Respectfully, Jim "Laws and rules don't kill freedom: narrow-minded intolerance does" : Race
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Jim

Sooooo good to see you !! I havent seen you for ages I have wondered where you had been :) thank you so much for your wonderful comment,I shall write as long as serendipity keeps em coming lol ... you take care kind regards love Jayne x x
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CyberSpace

16 years 8 months ago

what can I say but another

what can I say but another superbly writen poem by my darlin lol they just keep getting better and better more high fives for my darlin love always Hubby
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Bosscombat

16 years 8 months ago

:)

i agree with snake. eggshellent jayknee 2 bums u keep showing me up like this im gunna have to bug ur pc and steal all your poems :p <3 ♣
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Matty

Ahhhhh you guys are biased but have good taste so I trust ya LMAO ... and I will see you in a few hours get to bed and hurry up and get here !!! will ya please lol love you brother Jay-Knee 2bums mwah x x x
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 8 months ago

gives life to this wondrous sunflower seed,

Dear Jayne, I'm better late than never? "Thus binding loves magic 
I send it through time" Oh bound in this magic poem so sweetly tumbling down the page in its own innocence, like a beautiful little waterfall tumbling down the side of a mountain, creating wedding veils of fine tendrils seeking the best way to descend, and having descended gives life to this wondrous sunflower seed, that leaps up and becomes a reflection of the sun, timeless beauty. Jayne. Love Ann of Norway
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dear Dear Ann

If I had to pick a favourite poem this and my other one that I posted today are my favourites ... there is soemthing about this one that brings me peace,even when I read it ... its like reading the words of a stranger,sometimes I go to this place when I write and when I'm finished its like WOW where did that come from ... and this was one of those writes I am sure you know what I Mean you write sooo beautifully ... and take us away so wonderously ... love to you and yours Jayne x x x
Electric Blue

Electric Blue

16 years 8 months ago

Sun Flowers

Jayne How do you do it every word flows so beautiful amazing rhyme Well this crazy lady has giant sunflowers. As you enter my house through the front door there is a radiator in the hall and our of my radiator I have giant yellow and blue sunflowers stems down to the floor. among many other crazy things in own domain. always Electric Blue
Seren

Seren

16 years 8 months ago

Dearest Magz :D

Big Smile I love sunflowers but my favourite flowers are orchids ... but to me I have always thought of sunflowers as my happy flower I only have to look at them to smile ... thanks for the read I am so glad you liked this one ... to be honest I dont know where it came from .... just sat down one night and out it come ... will be round to see what you have been up to tonight ... love and hugbugs of higgest bugs Jayne x x x
Seren

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear Harriet,Havent seen you

Dear Harriet, Havent seen you around for a while hope your well . thanks so much for your comment and I am glad you enjoyed this one its one of my favourites as well :) love and hugz Jayne x x x
Electric Blue

Electric Blue

16 years 7 months ago

Sunflowers

Jayne Just read this again and it is so serene the words just flow like a gentle stream on a sunny day trickling over the rocks with sunlight shinning into my secluded grotto as always Magz Hope you are keeping well my dear friend.
Seren

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dearest Magz

I only got one and a half weeks of chemo left then the tests to see what comes next .. I wait ... love you hun thanks for the reread so happy you liked this one love and biggest hugs Jayne x x
Nordic cloud

Nordic cloud

16 years 7 months ago

My love especially Jayne, 'est bon chance pour le future'.

"Make your own mold and pour yourself in," This is a special expression and has many meanings, and is so defiant of deviation from being oneself, we are who we are, and yet we can mould ourselves into other than what we are, and then things go awry and the pattern of our lives is disturbed. I feel you have been yourself and that is a gift from yourself and from those around you, and we love the result dear Jayne, so keep being you and we shall keep feeling happy for you and whatever happens, we all love you, you know that don't you? If you are away we will think of you, if you send in poems we also will think of you, in all circumstances we will think of you and doing so will send vibes of our feelings to you to give you a hand in fighting difficult things, you can rely on us we are here for you. Dear sweet sunflower loving Jayne, may the sun always shine for you as you send it out to all of us here and in the many happy poems you have written. My love especially Jayne, ' est bon chance pour le future'. Ann of Norway.
Seren

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dearest Ann

You know I often feel that I have become more myself being ill .. the things that are important ... well kinda jump up into your face when normally you wouldnt see them ,.. its the little things ... but no matter what I believe anyone can apply themselves to whatever mould they choose to pour into ... and still be themself ... Huggles for the support and love ... I sometimes feel guilty .. I do, because I know there are people out there not as lucky as I, battling this filthy disease on their own ... and when I am at the hospital with these people ... even though I am in the same position ... in a lot of cases I am the younger ... so I help in small ways makes me feel a little less guilty for having so many people watching over me with soooo much love and they are I can feel it .. its the one thing thats got me through all this ... that love can change a world even one as small as mine .. just is ... with all my love dear Annucia ... Jayne x x x
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RobertKnott

16 years 7 months ago

Hi Seren...

Ahhhh....Love! To choose it over sadness is to weep for the garden for love Knew Eve; for love, came Eve; and love thus flowers all her days gladly.
Seren

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dearest Rob

I love your comments they are 'nearly' as good as your poems lol... they are a treat unto themselves thank you for that made me smile and thats just beautiful ... love Jayne x x x
OM

odd molly

16 years 7 months ago

and a thousand and thousand

and a thousand and thousand more stars for your most wonderful poem dear Jayne. May they shine upon you and your beautiful sun flower heart forever.. love. o molly
Seren

Seren

16 years 7 months ago

Dear o molly

Thankyou for your wonderful comment made my day ... I will be round to see what you have been writing ... love and hugs Jayne x x x