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Cosmos in the Garden

Spring Makers

2/26/2017

Buddha once held up a flower to his
disciples and asked each of them to
say something about it.

One pronounced a
lecture. Another a poem.
Yet another a parable.
Each trying to outdo the
other in depth and erudition.

Mahakashyap
smiled and said nothing. Only he had
seen the flower.
Anthony de Mello: The Song of the Bird, "Label makers"

Tombe La Neige

2/19/2017

Tombe la neige
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Tombe la neige
Et mon cœur s'habille de noir
Ce soyeux cortège
Tout en larmes blanches
L'oiseau sur la branche
Pleure le sortilège
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Me crie mon désespoir
Mais tombe la neige
Impassible manège
Tombe la neige
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Tombe la neige
Tout est blanc de désespoir
Triste certitude
Le froid et l'absence
Cet odieux silence
Blanche solitude
Tu ne viendras pas ce soir
Me crie mon désespoir
Mais tombe la neige
Impassible manège

Clematis

2/12/2017

(...)Farewell, farewell, lost soul!
you have melted in the crystalline distance,
it is enough! I saw you vanish into air.
D.H. Lawrence: Butterfly

Chrysanthemum leucanthemum

2/5/2017

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

In Vain the Am'rous Flute

1/16/2017

In vain the am'rous flute and soft guitar,
jointly labour to inspire
wanton heart and loose desire,
whilst thy chaste airs do gently move,
seraphic flames and heav'nly love.

Henry Purcell: "Hail bright Cecilia!" Ode for St. Cecilia's Day

Incredible and Improbable

1/7/2017

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the indcredible, and those who do the improbale. Oscar WIlde

Crocus

4/2/2015

Spring has come again. The Earth
is like a child who has learned poems by heart,
many, oh many... by working long
and hard at her lessons, she has won the prize.
Rainer Maria Rilke: Sonnets to Orpheus
(translated by Christopher Hawthorne)

Ligularia Przewalskii

1/17/2015

In China yellow color is associated with royalty. It also means honor and sacred among other significances. For the Japanese beauty and cheerfulness are definitely yellow, while in some European countries it is the color of jealousy and cowardice. Buddhism wants wisdom to be bright yellow, Greeks depict sadness in yellow tones. Who is right? Let us leave this question unresolved and enjoy the sunshine captured in the modest but still captivating golden rays of this unusual plant. Ladies and Gentelmen: Ligularia przewalskii!

Rosa multiflora

12/21/2014

Hope

Hope is with you when you believe
The earth is not a dream but living flesh,
That sight, touch, and hearing do not lie,
That all things you have ever seen here
Are like a garden looked at from a gate.

Autumn

10/20/2014

Autumn is like an old book:
Marred spines turn mean yellow,
staples rust red-orange.

Every stained page is stressed
by a splat of color. Rough-red,
like an old tavern,

we become hungry birds
and prepare for fall.
Shape and shadow are candied citron

as lanterns turn bitter yellow. Autumn
is a red fox, a goblet filled with dark wine,
a hot chilli pepper with smoky eyes.

Pressed leaves take in the colors
of seafood paella and saffron; these leaves
are like death, climaxing with a smile.

Autumn: Her dress is a net of mussels;
dark shelled, it covers up
summer’s weatherbeaten body.

So pull out your boots
and stand on an aged, wood floor
like an evergreen.
Mary Hamrick : "Autumn"

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