Light transforms the bare landscape of winter
To the delicate greens of early Spring
To the deep greens of the height of summer
and sets our gaze on the wondrous contemplation of light
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Light is all.
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Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
sings on the spiritual
aspects of light…
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August 1, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Mood Photographs , Music & Thoughts , Nature Photography , Spirituality | Tags: Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam on Light , Light , Light and meditation , Light and spirituality , Music , Religious music , Role of light in the seasons , Seasons , Sky meditation | 11 Comments
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Tree skeletons
acquire accoutrements
each passing day
pale green regalia
not the deep green
of Summer when the
change in color
is so gradual
as to be imperceptible
nor the fleeting riot
of color of Fall
no, in Spring,
ephemeral evanescent
slight light green
appears by the moment
right before my slow eyes
as I discern
shadows in the woods
a flash of white tail
deer fleet of foot
fly through the brush
dancing to the deep trill
of the wood frogs and
the echoing, haunted cries
of pileated woodpeckers
in the sudden density
of the fast-growing woods
inside the booming forest
whilst where I sit
at the edge of wood
bumble bees hum
and magically lift off
the teaming ground
and fly to the sky
where birds sing to mates
sweet songs of desire
in a crescendo of new life
as you have sung to me
for nearly thirty years
in an ever-changing
ever-growing love
whilst a breeze caresses
a newborn leaf
that tingles to its touch
as I thrill so very much
to the searching clasp
of your hand in mine
(As yet another killer, this time on the campus of Santa Barbara, California, is identified as possibly having Asperger’s syndrome, I, as a Bipolar Aspie, offer this poem written to my Aspie husband for May 14, 2014, on the occasion of our 25th wedding anniversary, to show that not all people with Asperger’s reach for a gun and are violent.)
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May 28, 2014 | Categories: Animal Columns & Poems , Asperger's & Autism , Asperger's and Love , Music of Nature , Poetry , Spirituality , Videos | Tags: Anniversary poems , Asperger's and marriage , Asperger's and violence , Asperger's marriage , Asperger's stereotype , Bees , Birds mating , Deer , Growth , Love , Old love , Santa Barbara killing spree , Seasons , Sights of Spring , Sounds of Spring , Spring , Trees in Spring , Wedding Anniversary , Woodpeckers , Woods | 3 Comments
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A tribute to my beloved brother, Tony, who loved this song.
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March 26, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Nature Photography , Spirituality , Videos | Tags: "All my Life's a Circle" , Beaver dams , Bontecou Lake , Circles , Deer , Harry Chapin , Ice , Lakes , Landscape Photography , March , Marshes , Millbrook NY , Nature photography , Seasons , Snow , Swamps , Trees , Wildlife Photography | 6 Comments
The marsh is melting
and
all the turtles in their hibernacula
deep down under the melting ice
will soon emerge
and the marsh will sing
the chorus of the Spring Peeper
and the salamanders will emerge
with the urge to murge
and joy and the life force
will fill the air
and lift the fog
enveloping my soul.
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March 19, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Animal Columns & Poems , Environment , Nature Photography , Poetry , Spirituality | Tags: End of Winter , Frogs , Hibernaculum , Landscape Photography , Life in Spring , Marshes , Melting , Poetry , Salamanders , Seasons , Spring , Spring mating , Spring Peepers , Turtles | 12 Comments
Winter is weary
and we are wary
of forecasts
of yet more snow
and ice to come
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March 7, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Macro Photography , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Ice , Macro Photography , Marsh , Nature photography , Seasons , Snow , Weeds , Winter | 10 Comments
Photons of gold
the tail end of winter’s light
up close
and far away
the tail end of the light of day
bright yet almost night
wafting with whispers
of a new season
a new reason
to live.
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March 4, 2014 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Bipolar Disorder , Depression and Mania , Nature Photography , Poetry | Tags: Beginnings , End of Winter , Endings , Golden Light , Hope , Landscape Photography , Life Cycles , Paired photographs , Photons , Seasons , Snow , Spring , Winter light | 12 Comments
“Washed out” colors soon will be scintillating
and bare branches budding
with brown bush breaking out in full flowering regalia.
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March 27, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs | Tags: Landscape Photography , March , March Landscape , Seasons , Spring , Spring growth , Spring Landscape , Trees Budding | 4 Comments
What is referred to as the “washed-out” landscape
of March
is brimming with the glow of secret growth
about to burgeon forth
into a verdant folly of spring green.
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March 24, 2013 | Categories: Animal & Landscape Photographs , Poetry | Tags: Abstract Photography , Glowing growth , Landscape Photography , Light , March , Poetry , Reflections , Seasons , Spring , Water | 14 Comments
“It is so interesting to see the marvelous evolution of complex matter from the singular consciousness of Spirit. How intricate it is, and yet so simple” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
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January 22, 2013 | Categories: Macro Photography | Tags: Change , Ice , Nature photography , Paramahansa Yogananda , Seasons , Snow , Transformations | Leave a comment
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