5. Sacred Lotus

Sacred Lotus

this sacred lotus, this eternal seed propagating within me

tuberous shoots of divine beauty, purity, divinity, deeply spiritual, medicinal, ornamental

a hindu radiance, a revered inflorescent durga6, parvati7

this lotus of india, a tropical tempered aquatic botanical,

obconic plumage, perennially afloat, a centrally stalked sensuous leaf floating above the water’s shallow depth running deep within the fertile mud loam8 of my floodplains, my shallow ponds and pools, my lakes and lagoons, every swamp and marsh wet of me, her tuberous growing tips propagate within me

6 The Hindu goddess of fertility, love and devotion; as well as of divine strength and power. She is the gentle and nurturing aspect of the Hindu goddess Shakti and one of the central deities of the Goddess-oriented Shakta sect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati 7 Ibid. 8 A soil with roughly equal proportions of sand, silt, and clay. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loam