Our Mother Nature has so much to teach us;
notice her smiling face; her gentler features;
her merry myriad of plants and creatures;
warm arms of sun that stretch right out to reach us.
Look at the little lady caterpillar;
her cocoon will catapult her to the sky,
in time she’ll spread her wings like spring; fulfil the
brighter, better life of a butterfly.
See how the many busy bees make honey,
not as mean men make money for themselves,
but for the love of all in their colony.
Their heavenly hive lives on; life is their wealth.
There’s scraps of scripture in all natures raptures;
sunsets are sentences; seasons are chapters.
Time will fly by too fast for you to capture
but learn from life and you’ll turn it to laughter.
Comments
Highhat | August 20, 2011 - 19:54
Beautiful- simple but great
;)Pia
well-wisher | August 20, 2011 - 20:32
Thankyou, pia. I am greatly inspired by the
poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins who used alot of alliteration and word play and wrote a great deal about nature.
Though his poems viewed nature through the lense of Christian faith and I see, more like a primitive, God in life itself.
JoHn
skinner_jennifer | August 20, 2011 - 22:32
These were such beautiful words.
You know John, I look at nature and it brings tears
of happiness to me, especially when I sit in my
garden and watch the nature surrounding me and the
sky in the early evening, as it changes colours.
Thankyou for the read.
Jenny.
well-wisher | August 28, 2011 - 12:09
Thankyou, Jenny. I'm glad you liked it. Yes, I love the changing colours of the sky too. I love the cobalt blue of late evening and the golds and pinks
and other hues of sunset. It's also great when the
sunset comes in through the window and paints the
white walls pink and then red. Nature was certainly the first and greatest of all the artists.
JoHn
Blessing | October 6, 2011 - 11:49
So simply put and sweet. You certainly have an eye for nature's butterfly and "sunsets are sentences; seasons are chapters ..." Bees and ants are such marvels because of how they live!