Francoise on "Do not sow your seeds in fallow lands"

 Françoise Dhulesia

Not sure I understood the poem well, yet here is my interpretation.

First the religious, metaphorical context of the Bible, whose words I approximately remember in French: "Défrichez- vous un champ nouveau et ne semez plus parmi les épines [...]", stroke me.

In the biblical context, God exorts "the hypocrites" to sow in a purified land.

Definitely, it is easy to establish a connection with the geo political context of a horrible war that keeps us worried and devastated.

Beyond this context, so subtly expressed here through hints, clues and references all along the text, I see something else, and here I may be extrapolating. Nevertheless, here is my understanding, very figuratively so.

I see the poet expressing some despair or sadness at realizing his/ her work's not always flowering as he/ she would loved to, in a world where everything is going fast, and where readers do not take the time to ponder, to stop, and read in depth. Happily, some of these readers, compared to some swans like to stop and bring with them these poetic texts to read in peace across the continents, to some shores the poet/-ess will never know. Aren't the mission and hope of the poet/-ess to sow the seeds of hope and love and share them with the world?