why strive

Beautiful the woven structure

of millet stalk's green face

similar to corn and yet

with slender elegant trace

Hidden behind the blackberry briar

stretched high to reach the sun

quietly gracious, patient, kind,

steadfast when day is done

Half inch inchworm lands on my leg

I lift him with my pencil

with suctioned end he propels in air

to search for surface to stencil

I stretch him toward the blackberry leaf

and he happily jumps and climbs on

and starts the chomping pattern in

the glory of the sun

I tender pull up millet plant

and dig a hole near feet

and place him in an open spot

for the gleaners who come to eat

"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver"

Intercession in form of

context + line/color

= plastic comparison of evident truth:

magnification of present need toward

hunger of purpose lost

Can form penetrate

abstract associations

to be recollective

and not didactic?

Seed bouncing off wall

hits tosser in the head.

Seed thrown in grassy field

finds nest to sprout and grow.

re: purity, soundness,

construction of ground

before figure of growth

introduced

How to coax order and beauty

out of gray chaos?

Circumstances Observed

Force of forward mobile man

As he exercises his plight:

Cult of personality that

Then hungers to dwell under light

Source of theme

comes quickly to

divert from quake

of day

and settles on

a branch at hand

as the cardinal

in May

Those that eager hungry hunt

may slurp up seed on shore

dropped upon restless sand

wave wiped forevermore

Those that silent sit

and watch, the seed hid

in the dunes

that burrows down

when wind warp whips

to chase away the bloom

Those that vacant stately stare

a dry seed blinking open air

burnt by flare of solar reign

poses in the righteous feign

Then those that forward

thrust their place

like the pistil popped

from stamen's grace

and outward swim

toward the foaming crest

to wrestle as Jacob

at the LORD's behest

Connectivity of Botany

" First occurence of theme take heed" Ellen Blackwell

The thread that trails from thought to thought
Discipline toward discerning need
To produce the seed
That action wrought

"Focus on the Sovereignty of GOD
not the will of man" Charles Stanley

The immediate need
takes sprout
and permissiveness
begins to grow
to fill the soul
of hunger spout
from eager reach
of breach we sow
and inward ask
the cure of woe
to dissolve the doubt
that man would grow

On top of line comes storm

out of vacuum, absence comes

then

out of action, accumulates paint

and line by line

and shape by shape

image reveals itself from wait

tandem handed action

of thoughts and repetition

noontime thunderstorm reveals

power of the LORD

to heal

parched pale dust

and forces

water laden air that feels

the reelings of

HIS Conviction

Purity

Impurity of destruction

Production of mind

That thwarts the

Pilgrims Progress

The hollow soul

lacks the fact

of TRUTH

and quickly

bursts

to heal

white ground wood

untouched by line

or color, shape,

or spot; toward

light found good

and wholesome

HOLY

ready for

impartation

Solvency

Who is solvent during
Blurring of line?
Confined amidst
Between right and wrong; lacking
Discerning
Truth from error=

What are the elements
of the composition?

The world page
The Citrus Tree
The falling away
The state of gray
The option out
The froward need
The hunger spout
The forward greed
The meeting ground
The eager seed
The open soil
The mounting bleed

Can come from color
rescue?