So beautiful, this sonnet. I have not been here for long time. 

Thank, you for sharing this, and reminding. 

Tina

Welcome Tina ...♥...

Love to you. Now: see a wite Angel statue looking out on a clear blue sky.

See the birds, the winged ones, knowing: Try to remember and hold on.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

- Herman Hesse

Art by Heather Watts

Hope is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul,

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all.

― Emily Dickinson

Longing, such longing — in the groves
I’ll cast me at thy feet,
And soothe my wearied soul less this longing
In nature’s converse sweet.

—  Patrick S. Cassidy

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

―  Walt Whitman

"i know love does to pain
what sunlight does to rain,
in the absence of doership
we’re reminded once again

that inherent in each cloud
is a rainbow not-yet-born,
the awakened state is present
even as we mourn.

so let the tears keep flowing
and trust whatever comes,
each moment is a banquet
of abundance, not of crumbs."

~ Rashani
(painting by Christy Freeman)

"There is a brokenness
out of which comes the unbroken,
a shatteredness
out of which blooms the unshatterable.
There is a sorrow
beyond all grief which leads to joy
and a fragility
out of whose depths emerges strength.

There is a hollow space
too vast for words
through which we pass with each loss,
out of whose darkness
we are sanctioned into being.

There is a cry deeper than all sound
whose serrated edges cut the heart
as we break open to the place inside
which is unbreakable and whole,
while learning to sing."

~ Rashani

Many paths lead from
The foot of the mountain
But at the peak
We all gaze at the
Single bright moon

Ikkyu
painting by Ito Jakuchu, 18.c.

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

~ Khalil Gibran

GYÖNYÖRŰ !!

Girls want to look like women,
Women want to look like girls.
And the old ladies just want to go for a walk.

haha

so true

Inside the chaos,
build a temple of love.

- Rune Lazuli

Hafiz Poems "The earth would die if the sun stopped kissing her"

"Love is round"

Art by Jamie Heiden

"The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand."

~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles

This is from the book: "The Moons of August", by Danusha Lameris.

Last night the fog slept in the deep wildflower field. With the dawn it now rises to resume its journey to the east, trailing precious dewdrops as bits of its dream stuff.

~ Domo Geshe Rinpoche ...

Wishing you a holy Solstice..

Artwork by Wendy Andrews

The eve of Winter Solstice
holds a magical air
for ‘tis the longest night,
with the richest fare.

Infused with wisdom,
unseen by most,
garnered by you
by your desire for growth.

In the morn,
the light filters in
and lo and behold
Awareness begins.

But without the darkness,
that rendered you wise,
the dawning light
would have nil to advise.

So sing ye an ode
to the bountiful darkness
for all the wonders
within the primordial womb.
*
~ Sharon Lyn Shepard ~

BUBBLES

as we celebrate
a year that was
heart gratitude
excitement too
new adventure
midnight brings

Mud is to dirt and water as joy is to freedom and light ~ ❤️

BLOOMING PERFECTION
thorns only draw corrupt blood⁣
GO FORTH WITHOUT FEAR

Christopher Stewart

(inspired by Khalil Gibran)

O God, you have prepared in peace the path I must follow today.
Help me to walk on that path.
If I speak, remove lies from my lips.
If I am hungry, take away from me all complaints.
If I have plenty, destroy pride in me.

May I go through the day, calling on you, you,
O Lord, who know no other Lord.

Galla, Ethiopia
Artist (Unknown to me, unfortunately!)

wise words

thank you

and wishes of well being to all in 2021 ~ * ~

Written in Paris in the 11th arrondissement !!

And, If a star shall fall
Down upon the ground
Why, I shall pick her up
For, she longed to be found
I shall hold her forever
Forever in my heart
Knowing that we shall never
Ever again, be apart

Poem written by Athey Thompson
Art by Seb McKinnon

Love your hands! Love them.

Raise them up and kiss them…

Love your neck; put a hand on it, grace it, stroke it and hold it up… And all your inside parts...

and the beat and beating heart...

Love your heart. For this is the prize.

~ Toni Morrison

Art: Victor Nizovtsev

EACH OF US

beyond the fray
the heart beats
in simple song
like a melody
for humanity

Happiness is like a butterfly;

the more you chase it, the more it will elude you,

but if you turn your attention to other things,

it will come and sit quietly on your shoulder

THOREAU

"I Worried" from "Swan: Poems and Prose Poems" by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press (2010)

Don't dream of a better tomorrow

You will keep your present at bay,

Live for the moment and have a positive say

You are the best say it today

Do what you feel and feel that today

Not like any other day

Feel like today!

Paul Gauguin

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet

and the winds long to play with your hair."

~ Khalil Gibran

Pablo Picasso

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
~ Khalil Gibran

Art by Lily Seika Jones

“Magic is all around
Just waiting to be found
A secret it shall be
Until, you choose to see”

*

Poem by Athey Thompson

Befor entering the sea, a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, And
in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter,
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way. The river can not
go back, nobody can go back. The river needs to
take the risk of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that's where the river will know,
it's not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.

- Khalil Gibran

such a good one from gibran on fear

thank you

sharing it on fb

good poetry pulls us into the beauty of our being

"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife

."

~ Kahlil Gibran

Photographer: William Clift

To love. To be loved.

To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you.

To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair.

To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple.

To respect strength, never power.

Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

- Arundhati Roy

—I must clothe myself in other worlds.
Else Lasker-Schüler, tr. by Eavan Boland, from “Autumn,”