The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great…
Category: peace of nature
POEMS: “April Piece” — by Armchair Zen (re-blogged)
Armchair Zen Noni among the flowers April Piece Such newfound joy I behold each year When April’s song bends my ear. The robins’ whistle by the fence, The gobble of the turkey thence. The warblers chatter, the swallows dart In living, breathing, springing art. From Earth rises all manner of things, As if…
POEMS: “Sometimes” (coping with worries, from an older post)
“Sometimes” Sometimes when things turn upside down And inside out and look dark brown, I rush outdoors and gaze into The topless sky’s eternal blue, So calm and cool, so still and deep, With soft contented clouds like sheep. I shade my eyes and stare and stare, Then go back in the house, and there,…
POEMS: “The Peace Of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry (from a previous post)
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
POEMS: “No more longing”
Yesterday I sat beside
a pristine mountain lake
where sky and pines and water
lost their names in Seeing,
where Listening became
a single bird-song, wind song,
INSPIRATIONAL POEMS: “A snapshot in Time” by Margaret Jang
To capture nature within a lens,
is to trap it in the space of time.
Presenting beauty at its best,
with gifts that are wholly aligned.
HAIKU NATURE POEMS: “Peace in Nature” (“Paz en la naturaleza”)
“Peace in Nature” Solace, comfort, and peace, Nature brings to me: a mother’s loving embrace! Amira Painting credits: “Mother Earth” by Ronnie Biccard “Paz en la naturaleza” Solaz, consuelo y paz, La naturaleza me trae: el abrazo amoroso de una madre! Amira
HAIKU NATURE POEMS: “A solitary rock” (“Una roca solitaria”)
“A solitary rock” A solitary rock, A place to sit… And feel the peace of eternity! Amira “Una roca solitaria” Una roca solitaria, Un lugar para sentarse … ¡Y sentir la paz de la eternidad! Amira
