what secret purple wisdom?

A friend of a friend took these pictures. Me being a biology major and all - I have a special spot for the way living things work. From the lub-dub of the heart to the sporulation of microbes. So many things happening that we rarely think of - and so intricate and mysterious and amazing. Following is one of my favorite poems - I hope it helps express creations beauty to you...enjoy!


What Secret Purple Wisdom

What word informs the world,
And moves the worm along in his blind tunnel?
What secret purple wisdom fells the iris edges
To unfold in frills? What juiced and emerald thrill
Urges the sap until the bud resolves
Its tight riddle? What irresistible command
Unfurls this could above this greening hill,
Or one more wave – it’s spreading foam and foil –
Across the flats of sand? What minor thrust
Of energy issues up from humus in a froth
Of ferus? Delicate as a laser, it filigrees
The snow, the stars. Listen close – What silver sound
Thaws winter into spring? Speaks clamor into singing?
Gives love for loneliness? It is this
Unterrestrial pulse, deep as heaven, that folds us
In its tingling embrace, gongs in our echo hearts.

-Luci Shaw
(from the Angels of Light, Shaw Books, 2000)