In Bill Fledderus's continuing class at Write! Canada: Finding Your Way Deeper Into Writing, we learned about the power of metaphor and how to use an object from nature that calls to us. Comparing a thing with a person can be a metaphor generator!
I decided to use a pine cone and write about...well, here is what I wrote.
Brown, light, life bringer, the pine cone whispers a message of rebirth.
To be born anew it separates from parent bough and sister cones, to be buried in the earth.
My mother's death was like that.
She, separating from her family tree like fruit that was finally ripe and ready to fall.
Separating as gently and easily as the pine cone. As naturally too.
No fighting against it.
Each created thing has its time
to be born anew
Brown, light, life bringer, the pine cone whispers a message of rebirth.
To be born anew it separates from parent bough and sister cones, to be buried in the earth.
My mother's death was like that.
She, separating from her family tree like fruit that was finally ripe and ready to fall.
Separating as gently and easily as the pine cone. As naturally too.
No fighting against it.
Each created thing has its time
to be born anew
Comments
I love your separation thoughts, esp the phrase "parent bough and sister cones." I'll be thinking about that all day, I suspect....and it will be a very good 'think.'