Days Too Short When primroses are out in Spring, And small, blue violets come between; When merry birds sing on boughs green, And rills, as soon as born, must sing; When butterflies will make side-leaps, As though escaped from Nature’s hand Ere perfect quite; and bees will stand Upon their heads in fragrant deeps; When…
Category: beauty of nature
POEMS: “Leisure” by William Henry Davies (written in 1911)
Leisure WHAT is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?— No time to stand beneath the boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows: No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass: No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams…
POEMS: “The Work of Happiness” by May Sarton
The Work of Happiness I thought of happiness, how it is woven Out of the silence in the empty house each day And how it is not sudden and it is not given But is creation itself like the growth of a tree. No one has seen it happen, but inside the bark Another circle…
FROM THE PHILIPPINES: “The legend of the sugarcane” (hope during depression) From an old post…
He didn’t find meaning in all his success. So he wondered what it was like to be in heaven. Perhaps, he thought, his satisfaction would be realized when he reached heaven.
How to Raise your vibration and fortify your immune system
How to Raise your vibration and fortify your immune system Tune into what nourishes your soul and not what feeds your ego (fear, sadness, worries, anger, anxiety, depression, etc). “What you focus on grows!” Become mindful of your words, thoughts and actions. They all have repercussions. As the philosopher Marcus Aurelius said:…
Nature Poems: “white heron rises over black water” by Mary Oliver
White heron rises over black water I wonder what it is that I will accomplish today if anything can be called that marvelous word. It won’t be my kind of work, which is only putting words on a page, the pencil haltingly calling up the light of the world, yet nothing appearing on paper…
NATURE POEMS: “A Prayer in Spring” by Robert Frost
“A Prayer in Spring” OH, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of the year. Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white, Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;…
NATURE POEMS: “Why I need the birds” by Lisel Mueller
Why I Need the Birds When I hear them call in the morning, before I am quite awake, my bed is already traveling the daily rainbow, the arc toward evening; and the birds, leading their own discreet lives of hunger and watchfulness, are with me all the way, always a little ahead of me…
POEMS: “Morning Poem” by Mary Oliver
Morning Poem Every morning the world is created. Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again and fasten themselves to the high branches — and the ponds appear like black cloth on which are painted islands of summer lilies. If it is your nature to…
Nature Poems: “”We have a beautiful mother” by Alice Walker
art by Jim Warren | The Beautiful Moods of Mother Earth | Illusion art “We have a beautiful mother” We have a beautiful Mother Her hills Are buffaloes Her buffaloes Hills. We have a beautiful Mother Her oceans Are wombs Her wombs Oceans. We have a beautiful Mother Her teeth The white stones…
MOTHER EARTH POEMS: “The Ocean of Blue” – A Poem of Beauty and Mystery by Kaitlin Siena Murray
“The Ocean of Blue” – A Poem of Beauty and Mystery A poem dedicated to the beauty and mystery of the oceans of our planet… The ocean of blue, the traveler, the explorer, it reaches every bay, every rock, every corner. It touches our souls for the life it brings the crashing waves a song they each…
NATURE POEMS: “Small bird on fire” by Pablo Neruda
“Small bird on fire” It was passed from one bird to another, the whole gift of the day. The day went from flute to flute, went dressed in vegetation, in flights which opened a tunnel through which the wind would pass to where birds were breaking open the dense blue air – and there, night…
