POPPY POD – life&death

 

The poppy pod is a cycle that opens and closes 

inside its pod, it hides its seeds, with care and dedication, hidden in a guarded safe

the living poppy has a green and unripe pod, closed and sealed and inside it a whole world comes to life

as the poppy lives and ages, the pod ripens and darkens

when the poppy dies, its red petals fall down withered on the ground and the pod is the only thing that stays up, always high and proud 

 

it’s the end point

but also the start point

soon, that pod, that beautiful armored safe, will begin to open its small openings on top, those nice little and sealed windows that you couldn’t even see before

the vents now open and clear the way for the seeds in order to go out, they are by now ripe and ready to create a new life

 

the poppy stem begins to bend a little under the weight of the ripe seeds

a little, it bends just a little

 


just enough to drop the seeds out of the windows, on the ground, hidden to overcome the winter and then give birth to one hundred thousand new red, contagious and infesting poppies 

magnificent poppies

 

 

the poppy pod is at the same time the end point of a poppy and the birth point of thousands of them 

 

with love, but always irreverent

L A D Y S A R A

 

P.S. If you want to discover all the other meanings click HERE 😉