Tag Archives: planting

Purpose Driven Life

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Doc Arnett

Spring has surged
so green and sudden
that the Bradford pears
have already gone
from bloom to leaf. Continue reading →

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Summer Snow

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Doc Arnett

These almost-lighter-than-air seeds of the cottonwood tree drift away, showing no sign of breeze. For four days or longer, there has been no stirring of the air, no fluttering of leaves. The seeds slide slowly to the earth in the oppressive heat, catch against an edge of turf, old posts or planks, whatever disrupts the smooth edge of the earth.

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A Slow Planting

Posted on May 17, 2010 by Doc Arnett

This body is not the substance of our immortality but is rather its seed. And no seed can bear its fruit until it has been planted. Continue reading →

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Heavy Soil

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Doc Arnett

There are times, too, when words have no effect whatsoever, no matter how impassioned the plea or how tender the entreaty. Continue reading →

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A Good Planting

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Doc Arnett

A few of us linger for a while,
near the grave,
waiting in the shade of hickory and oak,
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