Hi Hivers!
Today I am sharing a combination of photos and poetry. With a desire to inspire through visions of nature and inspirational words.
Some brightness to enliven the mind and spirit should your day be a little grey.
Poetry Time
Here is my latest narration, a short, inspirational poem by Dorothy Shultz
First fires
When I was little I used to flip to the last page of my chosen library book
first
and read it aloud to myself.
I thought by doing this I would be made privy to some secret information.
I could outsmart the author and figure it all out before he or she intended.
I could win.
Everything was a game.
Nowadays, I avoid the last page as long as possible.
I abandon books all over my apartment.
One lays with its spine cracked open on the arm of my couch
while another curls on the floor under my bed asleep.
I don’t want to get to the end of anything anymore.
I only want beginnings:
First sentences striking like matches on the roof of my mouth.
Igniting like the first fires on earth.
By Dorothy Schultz
And those beautiful words of Lord Byron........
She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Thanks for stopping by!
You must have a very good camera! This cicada ... amazing. :)
Thank you, yes I love this camera. NOT a DSLR but a bridging camera ( Canon Powershot SX60 HS )
Lovely photos of nature and your friendly animals in the jungle. You should post more photos of these beautiful creatures! Miss seeing them! They cheer me up every time!
Nice poems too!
Life is good there!
Thanks @kaminchan I am so glad you enjoy them. I would post more but am always so busy recording audiobooks these days I don't have so much free time for posting.
Hope you are well.
Oh! You’re very busy which is good! You could earn income during this economic slowdown.
Hope to see your cats’ photos one day.
two of my girl cats have been to the vets clinic today to be sterilised, just home now and relaxing.
two of my girl cats have been to the vets clinic today to be sterilised, just home now and relaxing.
thank you @sallybeth23 ! this posting, our yours, is perfectly timed, for me, as...
the weather has been quite grey, here, during my current intermittent return visit to my mother-country, of the California Republic 1849, and the fact that i will be returning, to spend the upcoming Summer Season of the North, to Costa Rica again.
you, and your lovely pix and poetry-sharings, have fanned the flames 🔥 of my excitement and anticipation for a new beginning on Costa Rica soon. thanks again!
Enjoy your time , wherever you are. puravida
i DO that… (“figuratively speaking”/writing…) …today on California, tomorrow on Brazil, the day after that… back on Costa…!
¡dias perfectos igual vida perfecta! 💥
The cicada is so beautiful, and the mushroom!!!
Interesting poems.
thank you very much for checking them out.