Fire Is Mother To The Mountain

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Stars Bow To God

Volcanic lava

births the mountain.

Fire is the

mother of earth.



Taurus follows

Aries. Virgo

succeeds Leo.

Sagittarius

Becomes Capricorn.



The flower is

mother to perfume.

Earth becomes

the wind, the air.



Gemini follows Taurus.

Libra succeeds Virgo.

Capricorn

becomes Aquarius.



Clouds woven

On air's looms

turn water's mercy:

kind heirlooms



Cancer follows Gemini

Scorpio succeeds Libra.

Aquarius becomes Piscean seas.



The ocean is lifted

to the daystar.

The sea is sire

to the sun.



Leo follows Cancer.

Sagittarius succeeds Scorpio.

Pisces becomes

resurrecting Aries.






Author's Notes/Comments: 

to Richard Wilbur
who awakened my love
of poetry with his
poem "To A Milkweed"

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