Lynda’s Journal – Poem – Partridge Breasted Aloe – Poem
Lynda’s Journal – Poem
~ Partridge Breasted Aloe ~
Let’s celebrate the Creator of our bountiful Earth, in February.
I celebrate God’s gifts that bring inspiration, wisdom, truth, peace, comfort, healing, and most important, confirmation of eternal life.
The Poem:
“Partridge Breasted Aloe”
She thrust her pointed daggers
upward and outward
concave deep green leaves
adorned with white spots
front and back.
Basks in winter sunshine.
from a center core at the base
spiny and plump
with white designs
on the spruce green leaves.
Winter is flowering season
one long stem bursts above
like a quiet barn swallow
shooting up from the center
of a rosette in the springtime
one salmon pink flower
fills my mornings with a delicate scent
no fragrance can match
the fragile beauty of her perfume.
Partridge Breast is a sun worshiper
thrives in the south-facing window
prefers to drink less in winter.
Partridge Breast is the Queen of my collection
succulents and cacti, my delights.
Partridge Breasted Aloe brings
a sense of peace to my home.
When spring rains turn towards
Summer’s cat-like days
my succulent friends spend their
vacation on my sun-drenched porch
where no grooming is necessary.
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Written by Lynda McKinney Lambert, 2017
Published:
Partridge Breasted Aloe, 2017.
_NatureWiting, February 13, 2018
_Lambert, Lynda McKinney. Star Signs: New and Selected Poems, DLD Books, 2019
Photo: Courtesy of AllAuthor.
_Star Signs: New andd Selected Poems. Lynda McKinney Lambert
“Partridge Breasted Aloe,” is also published in:
_Lambert, Lynda McKinney. first snow, chapbook, 30 Poems, Finishing Line Press, 2020
_Behind Our Eyes 3: A literary Sunburst, Published, 2023.
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Action Plan:
Do you have a VISION for your writing life?
What is your DREAM for your writing or art?
Pray and ask God to reveal to you what he has planned for your creative life.
I can promise, He answers in a way that will be unique and perfect for you.
Write it down and make it plain.
Don’t be running around in circles, and confused about what to do.
Make a PLAN that actually WORKS.
Seek God’s direction in all you do. Your Creator will give you all the guidance you will ever need.
Habakkuk 2:2-3 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.