Transcending
Ocean waves lapping on a lonely shore;they cause deep stirrings within.My soul drifts toward this natural call,and I move from a place herein.The wind through the trees when leaves are no more;whispers of something unspoken.It…
Tag: Nature
The Great Tree
I looked up at the tree, so much bigger than me.Its branches spread wide,for all who would see. So big and so tall, higher than them all;strength fresh and still green;many felt its call. There…
The Sea and His Daughter
“Do you ever feel homesick for a place you can't remember?” my father would ask me, late at night, when the tide pressed high against the dunes. I would smile, shake my head, and turn…
Praying for Rain on Saint Swithin’s Day
Oh, yes, there are pale necromancers stillLike poor Macbeth’s witches summoning factsThat rise like bloated corpses to the surfaceOf strange electromechanical cauldrons But we consult the winds, the clouds, the starsWhose songs and shapes and…
Bees Disapprove of Us
There’s nothing the bees care to learn from usWe talk to them anyway in our idlenessHaving put away the hose or the rakeWe’re in the mood to gab for a little while But Calvinist bees…
Every Plant is Signed
For each its purpose, every plant is signedEmbedded by the Maker with intentsIn willing service to Creation, thenMaybe we shouldn’t tell them how to live Because if we humans are signed for plantsEmbedded by the…
Roots: Insights from the Tree Alphabet of Old Ireland: Yew
“O Cormac, grandson of Conn,” asked Caibre,“What is lasting in the world?”“Not hard to answer,” said Cormac,“Grass, bronze, yew wood. That is all.” ~From The Counsels of Cormac Botanical name: Taxus baccataFamily: TaxaceaeOgham: EdadScots…
Roots: Insights from the Tree Alphabet of Old Ireland: Aspen
M 'airiuclán hi Tuaim Inbirni lántechdais bes sestucona retglannaib a réir Gobban durigni insinconecestar duib astoirmu chridecan dia du nimis hé tugatoir rodtoig. Tech inna fera flechodmaigen na áigder rindisoilsidir bid hi lugburtose cen…
The Platonic Tree
(If Plato had considered a tree instead of a cave)Cf. Republic, Book VII For a little child a tree is foreverIt is as it was, and will always beIn a dreamy stasis beyond all timeTrue…
Roots: Insights from the Tree Alphabet of Old Ireland: Heather
An nì a thig leis a’ghaoith falbhaidh e leis an uisge.What comes with the wind will go with the water. ~From The Dindshenchas Botanical name: Calluna vulgarisFamily: EricaceaeOgham: UrScots Gaelic: FroeachIrish Gaelic: FroachWelsh: GrugFrench:…