Litany Of Divine Seed Protection Poem by Saiom Shriver

He makes tomato seeds
slippery beyond the
crunching teeth to slide

He clothes mango seeds
in saffron silk strands
that they discarded
catch the dew and
with life ignite

and gives maple seed
samaras
helicopter propellers
to take them far

He gathers dandelion seed spears
into a snowy perfect sphere
that the wind may
blow them to all points away

The almond he
bequeaths a hard shell
that it survive
January cold hells

Cockleburs He created
to travel, sticking to clothes
which gave someone the idea
for adhesive velcro.

The palm tree's coconuts
.. which might dropp into the sea
He plasters with a hard husk
to guard inner coconut milk sea

and sends apple seeds unharmed
through the bodies of birds...
these seedstorks..
dropp them into chimneylike
chutes in distant climes

The seed inside
soft avocado
is hard and
incommunicado
until the tiruna
when it will delve
into the earth

He seeps sap out of
female pinecones to
attract male pine cone
pollen.

Black watermelon seeds
He packs in pink satin
along with captured stormdrops
that they both quench human thirst
and nurse the seeds.

He hangs at the top
of the pepper belfry
the white pepper bell chimes
that they not be harmed
at salad time

Unlike the peachpit
hard as granite
soft and sweet..
seeds.. pomegranate...
Their ruby juiced beauty
multiplies them.

But in divine compassion
he weaves inaide cornhusks
the light of dusk
revealing corngold
easily unsheathable
for humans and crows

(to CR and TK)