The Lessons Of Nature

By well-wisher

Sat, 20 Aug 2011
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Our Mother Nature has so much to teach us;
notice her smiling face; her gentler features;
her merry myriad of plants and creatures;
warm arms of sun that stretch right out to reach us.

Look at the little lady caterpillar;
her cocoon will catapult her to the sky,
in time she’ll spread her wings like spring; fulfil the
brighter, better life of a butterfly.

See how the many busy bees make honey,
not as mean men make money for themselves,
but for the love of all in their colony.
Their heavenly hive lives on; life is their wealth.

There’s scraps of scripture in all natures raptures;
sunsets are sentences; seasons are chapters.
Time will fly by too fast for you to capture
but learn from life and you’ll turn it to laughter.

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Submitted by Highhat on
Beautiful- simple but great ;)Pia

Submitted by well-wisher on
Thankyou, pia. I am greatly inspired by the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins who used alot of alliteration and word play and wrote a great deal about nature. Though his poems viewed nature through the lense of Christian faith and I see, more like a primitive, God in life itself. JoHn

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on
These were such beautiful words. You know John, I look at nature and it brings tears of happiness to me, especially when I sit in my garden and watch the nature surrounding me and the sky in the early evening, as it changes colours. Thankyou for the read. Jenny.

 

Submitted by well-wisher on
Thankyou, Jenny. I'm glad you liked it. Yes, I love the changing colours of the sky too. I love the cobalt blue of late evening and the golds and pinks and other hues of sunset. It's also great when the sunset comes in through the window and paints the white walls pink and then red. Nature was certainly the first and greatest of all the artists. JoHn

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn