“Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches?” Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives — tried to imagine what the crisp fringes, full of honey, hanging from the branches of the young locust trees, in early morning, feel like? Do you think this world was…
Category: beauty of nature
Sharing some pictures from camping at Horne Lake, Canada
A heart cloud Walking in the forest behind the camping site Mama deer and her baby are out of focus because they were on the move! In the twilight: A duck family with lots of babies following in line In the twilight we had mama goose with her hubby and babies visit us again Full…
NATURE POEMS: “A gift from the sky” Amira (“Un regalo del cielo”)
“The gift from the sky” In Nature’s solitude Observing the twilight aperture As the first stars begin to light up the sky The tree swallows fly To catch up their evening meal by the lake And soon they are joined by the bats In their frantic zig-zag Catching the invisible bugs Suddenly, behind…
POEMS FROM USA: “Desert Solitaire” (may your life be like Nature, from an older post) by Edward Abbey
Where tigers belch and monkeys howl,
Through miasmal and mysterious swamps
POEMS: “The laughing song” (from an older post) by William Blake
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it;
POEMS FROM RUSSIA: “I Taught Myself To Live Simply” (from an older post)
I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky
BEAUTIFUL SPIRITUAL POEMS: “Beauty”(“The search for beauty is the search for God”) by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Beauty” The search for beauty is the search for God, Who is All Beauty. He who seeks shall find; And all along the paths my feet have trod, I have sought hungrily with heart and mind And open eyes for beauty everywhere. Lo! I have found the world is very fair….
SHORT PERSIAN POEMS: “The sun never says” (from an older post) by Hafez
Even after all this time
The sun never says to the earth,
SHORT PERSIAN MYSTICAL POEMS: “The rose” by Hafez (from an older post)
How did the rose
ever opened its heart
and gave to the world
all its beauty?
SPIRITUAL & NATURE POEMS: “The flowers have tender little souls” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (from an older post)
The flowers have tender little souls. That love, rejoice, aspire.
SHORT POEMS: “The daisy follows soft the sun” (from an older post) by Emily Dickinson
The daisy follows soft the sun, And when his golden walk is done, Sits shyly at his feet.
Native’s wisdom in Pocahontas’ song: “Colors of the wind” (song & lyrics from an older post)
You think you own whatever land you land on
The Earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know every rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
