“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: magnificent nature
A quote by Walt Whitman about Nature
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of…
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…
NATURE POEMS: “Summer Song” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Summer Song” The meadow lark’s trill and the brown thrush’s whistle From morning to evening fill all the sweet air, And my heart is as light as the down of a thistle – The world is so bright and the earth is so fair. There is life in the wood, there is bloom on…
NATURE POEMS: “A message from a Calliope Hummingbird” (“Un mensaje de un colibrí caliope”) Amira
“A message from a Calliope Hummingbird” Is it a moth? So quick and small… Perhaps a dragonfly… or a butterfly in the distance? What an amazing existence! Zipping and darting through flowers At this early hour! What a discovery! It’s the tiniest forest hummingbird That I have ever observed! The calliope hummingbird, A…
NATURE POEMS: “Camping by the lake” (“Acampando junto al lago”) Amira
Camping by the lake In the early hours of the morning light I opened my eyes and I could suddenly see A gaggle of majestic wild geese Silently grazing by our site… Then Mamma appeared With her three downy soft chicks All so curious, following near, While mimicking all her moves…
MYSTIC POEMS: “In a thousand forms” by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
You may hide yourself in a thousand forms,
Still, All-beloved, I recognize you;
You may cover yourself in magic mists,
All-present, I can always tell that it is you.
ZEN Nature excerpt: “What Does It Mean To Pray” by Tarchin Hearn
Photo credit: http://www.tonylion76.com/430071641 Wangapeka June 13/06 Written as part of a longer e-mail article called “What Does It Mean To Pray” PRAYER It’s one of those mornings. Five-thirty a.m. and luminous. The light is rose-ing, salmon grey-pink, silhouetting the peaks; a celestial water colour washing the canvas of my mind, transforming a chill metal-blue dawn…
SUFI POEMS: “Invocation” by Farid ud-Din Attar
We are busy with the luxury of things.
Their number and multiple faces bring
To us confusion we call knowledge. Say:
God created the world, pinned night to day,
Made mountains to weigh it down, seas
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Come”
“Come” Every day I am astonished by how little I know, and discouraged, obedient as I am to the demand to know more — always more. But then there is the slow seep of light from the day, and I look to the west where the hills are darkening, setting their shoulders to the night,…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “The Morning Watch” by Henry Vaughan
“The Morning Watch” O joys! Infinite sweetness! with what flowers And shoots of glory, my soul breaks and buds! All the long hours Of night and rest, Through the still shrouds Of sleep, and clouds, This dew fell on my breast; O how it bloods, And spirits all my earth! hark! in what rings,…
MYSTICAL POEMS: “Beauty Radiated in Eternity” by Hafiz
Beauty Radiated in Eternity Beauty radiated in eternity With its light; Love was born And set the worlds alight. It revealed itself to angels Who knew not how to love; It turned shyly towards man And set fire to his heart. Reason ventured to light Its own flame and wear the crown, But Your…
