Tuesday 26 July 2016

The Summer Day






Some more Anemone love ... These Japanese Anemones, "Pink Saucers", are just adorable!

The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver -


Wishing you a great week ahead,

Nina


photos: iPhone 5S - Lightroom preset Ride The Wind 1 and texture Artist 8 by 2 Lil Owls

4 comments:

  1. gorgeous post. both poem and photos! thank-you.

    These verses gave me a delicious thrill...

    Tell me, what else should I have done?
    Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

    Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    With your one wild and precious life?

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    1. I cherish those lines as well ... the poem does make one appreciate each day, doesn't it.

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  2. The color of this anemones is stunning!!!
    Love

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    1. Thanks so much, Manu - There was a whole bunch of them (I wish I had a garden ... but am happy with all the flowers there are in the parks and in the neighborhood)

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