Both worlds Forever busy, it seems, with words, finally I put the pen down and crumple most of the sheets and leave one or two, sometimes a few, for the next morning. Day after day – year after year – it has gone on this way, I rise from the chair, I put on…
Category: learning from Nature
Zen Buddhism -Excerpt from the Book: “Walking in Wisdom” by Tarchin Hearn
REFLECTION– 3 58–Today’s world of human experience is increasingly moulded by feelings of insecurity, entrapment conflict, and fear. We feel trapped in situations and circumstances: family obligations, economic constraints, weather, traffic, bureaucratic red tape and so forth. We fight interminable battles with people, creatures, invasive species, weeds, belief systems, expectations and fears. In the name…
Learning from Nature HAIKU POEMS: “Ocean” (Aprendiendo de la naturaleza: “El océano”)
Photo credit: Ocean sunset (Pinterest) Learning from Nature: “Ocean” Vastness, beauty, depth, Heartbeats through pulsating waves, Teeming with life forms… Likewise, the ocean Flows within us, through our veins Life source for our cells Teaches: Like the smallest drop The vastness of the ocean Has the same essence. …
(Learning from Nature) POEMS: “Limitless”
Limitless
Sun says, “Be your own
illumination.”
Learning from nature Haiku poems: “Full moon” (Aprendiendo de la naturaleza poemas Haiku: “Luna llena”)
Full moon Full moon shines at night… Giant mirror of the Sun, Reflecting its light. Teaches: Look up to the great, The masters “Suns” of earth, Reflect their light! …Spreading the light in the dark of the night. Amira Luna llena La luna llena brilla en la…
POEMS: “Stand Still” (in the forest)
Stand Still Stand still. The trees before you and the bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is a place called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you,…
POEMS: “Being watchful” by Wendell Berry
As soon as I felt a necessity to learn about the non-human world,
I wished to learn about it in a hurry
POEMS: “Fallen snow”
Now the bare black bushes
All look soft and white.
Every twig is laden-
What a pretty sight!
Learning from Nature HAIKU POEMS: “Delicate flower” (“Flor delicada”)
“Skeleton flowers are unique flowers which turn transluscent upon exposure to water and rain. Its white petals become completely clear, then transform back to their original milky white color once dry.”Diphelleia grayi, the scientific name of the Skeleton Flower, can be found in only three parts of the world. The plant grows on moist, wooded…
POEMS: “One”…
Photo credit: Pinterest One The mosquito is so small it takes almost nothing to ruin it. Each leaf, the same. And the black ant, hurrying. So many lives, so many fortunes! Every morning, I walk softly and with forward glances down to the ponds and through the pinewoods. Mushrooms, even, have but a brief hour…
Learning from Nature HAIKU POEMS: “Winter Solstice” (“solsticio de invierno”)
Learning from nature: “Winter Solstice” On the darkest day, On the darkest hour, LIGHT’S BORN! Let us celebrate! Teaches: When times are darkest, Know the light is nearer! The tipping point is reached! (When Darkness turns into LIGHT!) Amira Aprendiendo de la naturaleza: “Solsticio de invierno” En el día más…
POEMS: “Wild Geese” (“Gansos Salvajes”)
Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile…
