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Poetry by Valerie Creane, PsyD
Sunflowers
I only just learned that
sunflowers follow the sun
they know what they need
and turn towards it,
no self recriminations or doubt,
no twisted illusion that
they must do it on their own
every day they turn their
open yellow faces
to the sun and follow the
vast trajectory of light
until the velvet dark settles
across the lap of the horizon,
and they once again turn East,
trusting in the sun’s rising
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perhaps I should have known this before,
given their name, sunflowers,
but I only saw their sunlike yellow faces
and looked no further
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we miss so much when our attention
skips and drifts, I missed all the motion
in their lovely tall bodies, all the wisdom in
their bristled stalks and green reaching souls
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who says humans are the purveyors of intelligence?
we have such trouble turning towards the light
such trouble believing in it in the first place
though our roots lie in the earth
we see ourselves as separate:
bitter and free
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the green things have
a wisdom all their own
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in my dream of dreams
we are sunflowers
in a boundless muddy field
reaching and waving
in the changing light
as we lean together
towards what sustains us
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and this is our magic, our wisdom,
for it is only humans
who can wish things into being

Trust
you do not need
to be afraidÂ
even now the
pearl of wisdom
within you unfurlsÂ
the darkness must
leave the sky
before the sun can riseÂ
every day, the world turnsÂ
that which
troubles you now
may become the gem
that sets you freeÂ
pearls are not born
without sufferingÂ
or patienceÂ
we must rest,
and let the
deep waters
work their
iridescent magicÂ
timing is everythingÂ
