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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Cactus Inspiration

Cactus in Glass Bubble
Our lives become closed in a shell.
Do you long to hear the song of waves inside the shell,
or prefer the comfort of a rain umbrella, a cozy you understand the corners in the dark?
Push beyond the smooth pathway, stand on burning rocks and listen to your heart.

Cactus Glass Bubble
Succulent Scape
Feels like the great eclipse and the diamond glass cutter may shatter?
Embrace the change with a joyful center, though your inner ear balance left you.
Walk on a tightrope of gossamer, for God's sake keep your chin up above fiberglass nets.
I kneel at your courage to rise from punching one more time, your lips part, smiling.

cactus landscape bubble
Glass Ornament for dry landscape
The desert only gets too much rain one day or smoke and fire.
It is the days in-between when you hike and work and go longer than ever before.
The word count, the chin ups, the hands shred to exposed muscle.
Then know you have done every inch of great.

miniature cactus
Mini moonscape

Caroline Gerardo Copyright 2012
To make these ornament bubbles all you need is
 a couple tablespoons sand for the bottom, pebbles,
small succulents and water once a week.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Caroline is giving away three glass globes to random three commentors in the US -can't send plants out of US

Tekkaus said...

Goodness. This is really beautiful. :) Too bad I can't have it right, since I am not in US. :9

Caroline Gerardo said...

@Tekkaus I can sneak and send you the hand blown glass and some sweet pea seeds :)
C. G.

Rob Dunlavey said...

CG: a thought for your beguiling bubbles:

In the desert, the heat comes from your feet up
It reflects on the underside of the chin even
where shadows normally sleep
A sunburn steals in at noon and makes me crave aloe at midnight.

:)

Caroline Gerardo said...

@RobDunlavey
Fortunately I have two varieties of aloe in pots in my garden. Strangely enough, I have the descendants of a sword fern you gave me twenty plus years ago. Could the spores have decendants who will survive the next millenium in some desert turned into a lake?

Rob Dunlavey said...

It's nice to know that you have something of mine. I have --and treasure a few drawings by you. Spores indeed!