There is a place you can gowhere you are quiet,a place of water and the light on the water. Trees are there,leaves, and the lighton leaves moved by air. Birds, singing, moveamong leaves, in leaf shadow.After many years you have come to no thought of these,but they are themselvesyour thoughts. There seems to be little…
Category: beauty of nature
MYSTIC POEMS: “The Marriage of the Soul” by Mahmud Shabistari (from The Secret Rose Garden)
The Marriage of the Soul Descending to the earth, that strange intoxicating beauty of the unseen world lurks in the elements of nature. And the soul of man, who has attained the rightful balance, becoming aware of this hidden joy, straightaway is enamored and bewitched. And from this mystic marriage are born the poets’…
NATURE POEMS: “THE RAIN” by William H. Davies
The Rain I hear leaves drinking rain; I hear rich leaves on top Giving the poor beneath Drop after drop; ’Tis a sweet noise to hear These green leaves drinking near. And when the Sun comes out, After this Rain shall stop, A wondrous Light will fill Each dark, round drop; I hope the Sun…
POEMS: “A plain life” by William H. Davies
A Plain Life No idle gold — since this fine sun, my friend, Is no mean miser, but doth freely spend. No prescious stones — since these green mornings show, Without a charge, their pearls where’er I go. No lifeless books — since birds with their sweet tongues Will read aloud to me their…
POEMS: “Days too short” by William H. Davies
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…
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…
