I took these first thing this morning. It’s good to get up to a new day with such a glorious welcome from nature.
Wonder, Beauty, Awe and Love
Wonder, Beauty, Awe and Love
I saw wonder
In a spiral arm
Wonder In a cell
Wonder In a leaf
The gentle ocean’s swell.
I saw beauty
In a blossom
Beauty In a snake
Beauty In a spider’s web
The crystals of a flake.
I found awe
In infinity
Awe In nature’s scope
Awe In an atom’s spin
In the eternal ring of hope.
I found love
In my pet’s eyes
Love In my children’s smiles
Love In my sweetheart’s touch
Love’s never out of style.
Wonder, beauty, awe and love
Provide purpose – just enough!
Opher – 27.12.2024
I felt I needed a positive note. While a lo of my writing is dark my life is not. It is full of beauty, awe, love and wonder. I felt I needed to express that in order to provide some balance.
If I rail against the system I find myself stranded in it’s because I want it to change; I want to make it better.
Yes, I know, that is futile – but I believe in gestures. I believe in cycles. We are currently in a cycle of fear, hate and division. I hope that love, awe, hope, beauty and wonder will reassert itself.
We really don’t need greed.
Love always wins! Beauty is all around us! Wonder is what the universe runs on! Awe is how we should always feel!
Rainbows – a view from my window.
Our Breath
Our Breath
My breath,
Our breath,
The rustle of leaves.
My heartbeat,
Our heartbeat,
Susurrations on the breeze.
My dreams,
Our dreams,
Green splendour of nature.
My life,
Our life,
Defying all nomenclature.
Adrift on a cosmic island,
Wondrously
Alive
Myriads
Interconnected
Wonders.
Opher – 20.11.2024
Sometimes you simply have to stand aside and gasp. Here we are on this tiny rock spinning and spiralling through space at colossal speeds.
Once, just once, the chemicals came together.
Now we have this vast interconnected web of wonder, spawning consciousness, self-awareness and beauty.
So delicate, so unlikely, so marvellous.
Incredible. I am incredulous.
We are part of this. We are all one. My breath; our breath.
Snow! – The view from our window this morning!
Roy Harper – Unknown Soldier
We need a new Roy Harper to sing songs about reality
Take Heart – a poem
Nature
Take Heart
Take heart from the ones whose hearts are large,
Whose eyes see with soft glow
And whose hands caress and care.
For they are the ones who know
That they live within a mystery,
On a journey within wondrous lands
Where everything is a marvel
And everything has worth.
Take heart from those who see and care
And adore all that they behold
For they would build and love and feel
And so turn everything to gold.
Take heart from the ones who appreciate
That everything has its place
From sun, moon and mountain
To gnat, flea and worm.
Opher 16.6.2018
We opened our eyes into a beautiful universe. We came from nothing and will return to nothing. In the meantime we have all this and we take it for granted. It is so wondrous.
There are those who can see that wonder all around us. Those are the ones we should take heart from. They are living.
There are those who would look to build, to make things better, to provide a pleasant word or helping hand. They are the ones we should take heart from. They are worth so much more than the mindless nasty types.
There are those who realise the incredible wonder of every living thing. They see the amazing wonder of our evolution and our place within the spectrum of life. We should take heart from them.
So here’s to the positive forces that live among us!
Poetry – Eyes Open – A poem to the splendour around us.
Awe and Wonder
I wanted to write a poem to encapsulate the incredible beauty of the universe and life on this vibrant jewel of a planet.
Evolution has provided us with sense in order to enable us to survive. It has provided us with a brain to process the data. Our senses see all that is around us in order to protect us from predators and enable us to find food and shelter.
An offshoot of this is that we have developed consciousness that allows us to comprehend, create and wonder.
The world around us is full of immense beauty. Life on this planet has evolved into immaculate forms. The natural features of this planet are marvellous to behold.
We should open our senses to the full and bask in it and thank chance for dealing us this hand.
We are possibly the only intelligent life in the whole universe who are able to witness the extent of this wonder. I hope that we are able to not only appreciate but preserve the splendour we are surrounded with; much of it is delicate.
Eyes Open
Surrounded:
Petal and scale
Iridescent –
Galactic
Majesty
Replete.
Feather
Wing and crystal,
Aromatic scent
Creating
Awe and wonder
We cannot repeat.
In the midst
Of splendour
We exist
With sense
To feel
It all;
With open eyes
And ears
To insist
That life is here
To feel
That pull.
There is wonder in our being;
Greatness in our seeing,
And love enough
To hold it all in
Thrall.
Opher 27.7.2015
Photography – sunset on the river in Saigon with boats, liquid gold and swallows
Farewell from Manilla. Photos.
Manilla
We had a last scoot around Manilla before slipping away into the twilight of evening. The hazy city, bright busses and shanty towns.
Another place of massive inequality. The rich in their penthouses with their limos and yachts, the poor masses surviving on scraps, living in ramshackle huts.
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