The Surviving Seeds

Raymond Grech 1953 (Sliema)



The ruthless wild wind blows
across the ploughland,
frigid and insensitive
moves on to batter in spiral gusts,
foreboding dreary overtones…
Protrudes to mounts and valleys,
bending palm trees,
plucking weak shrubs,
dispersing seeds to life and death.

We are the lasting seeds
of the Sower,
escaped and unharmed,
tossed and shaken,
shaped and hewed,
sprouting to eternity!




‘Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.’   — GALATIANS 3:16

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For hope beyond the troubles of our earthly journey

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Submitted by raygrech on March 22, 2022

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Scheme ABXXXCCXX XXBXBB A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 548
Words 110
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 9, 6, 1

Raymond Grech

Raymond C. Grech (born November 15, 1953. Tas-Sliema, Malta) is an award-winning, Maltese poet, writer and author. Grech is the author of a poetic trilogy in Maltese entitled: QASAB IĊAQĊAQ (Beyond The Creaking Reeds), ’il barra mill-prIŻMI (out of the prISMS) and Lejn L-Għamajjar (Towards Everlasting Habitations). more…

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