Daffodil Chalice

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Flowers Sunspun

Father winter

.. he did fill

the hopeful cup of

wee daffodil

with the cold

sorbet

of chill

the icing of

snowspill.



But it melted

quickly..

and soon to

the touch of

the sun

the daffodil

did thrill.



These daffodils

are not

windblown

infidels

.. but to the sun

they are fidel





DAHLIA POWER



Like Samson's hair

before severed

by Delilah

.. strongest are

the

uncut dahlias



(Jesus, Paul,

Samson took the Nazarite

vow not to eat flesh

nor to cut their hair)

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Thank you Fidel Castro
for not eating meat.
Thank you for the most
effective and free
literacy program in the
world. Thank you for your
courage.

Al Couch, a Biblical
scholar and farmer,
took Genesis literally..
that there were no
brutal weather patterns
on earth when it was
covered with trees..
it is humankind, not
God, he thought,
who have created
the violence of freezing.

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