Ode to the Palm Frond’s Secret Geometry

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Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.

Shakti Gawain

Ode to the Palm Frond’s 

Secret Geometry

[A palm frond consists of a rachis, which is the central stalk, and pinnae, which are the individual leaflets or blades that attach to the rachis.]

Between each pinna, 

green and long,

Tiny triangles, 

Notes in a song—

Slivers of sky, 

a puzzle’s trace,

Where sunlight slips in 

to find its place.

The rachis, proud, 

a central spine,

Hosts these triangles 

in a line;

A vertebrae of 

empty space,

A necklace made 

of light and grace.

Oh, what a sly 

and clever scheme

To lace the world 

with gaps between!

For every leaf 

that meets its stem,

A triangle blooms, 

a secret gem.

Such order, and oddness, 

side by side—

A beauty found 

where shapes collide.

A spine of spaces, 

sly and bright,

Spanned in laughter, 

arranged in light.

    Cloudia Charters

You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.

 C. JoyBell C

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. . .we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Bertrand Russell

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 Love You, 

 Pixie & Cloudia 

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