Sunday/The Sower

                                      Sunday/The Sower

Today's is the gospel of the sower. These rural parables have a georgic quality, the practical set on a larger and natural law.
Georgic is defined as a poem dealing with practical aspects of agriculture and rural affairs. The model for such verse in postclassical literature was Virgil’s Georgica, itself modeled on a now lost Geōrgika (Greek: “agricultural things”) by the 2nd-century BC Greek poet Nicander of Colophon.

Olivia Butler has two novels, The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents in which she offers a Darwinian religion based upon the foundation of the universe: Change.

Putting in the Seed

Robert Frost - 1874-1963

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You come to fetch me from my work to-night 
When supper's on the table, and we'll see 
If I can leave off burying the white 
Soft petals fallen from the apple tree. 
(Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, 
Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) 
And go along with you ere you lose sight 
Of what you came for and become like me, 
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. 
How Love burns through the Putting in the Seed 
On through the watching for that early birth 
When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, 
The sturdy seedling with arched body comes 
Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.