Another Country
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» jerrib - I, too, like ee cummings
But I really enjoy the humor of Ogden Nash, something that is really needed in this negative political atmosphere that is now in the US.
Thus Nash:
"In the world of mules
There are no rules."
Nature is a great respite from all that is not right with the world. And, likewise, it is especially great in good times.
As ever, your writing is a breath of spring (in the fall, no less!).
Happy Halloween.
-- posted by jerrib
» Sue59 - believe in miracles
Hi TomI believe that nature is the only miracle that we need to believe in. It grounds us amongst the bedlam
A poem by A New Zealand poet Sam Hunt that i find says a lot for this
We can believe in miracles,
easy a day like this.
For five minutes at sunrise the sun
broke through, first time in weeks,
a kiss
He has quite an irreverent style, so to read the rest look at Winter Solstice Song
As ususal Tom you bring us away from the stress of daily life to the beauty of the natural world.
Thanks
-- posted by Sue59
» Barbara Bell - Re: believe in miracles
In response to believe in miracles posted by Sue59:Tom, this was such a lovely piece to read on a silent gray morning after the tumult of the election night. I have always loved e.e.cummings, too. Wrote a paper on him in college...
Your readers might also like to read some of the works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose poetry and "sprung rhythm" is said to have influenced cummings. My favorite is The Windhover, but here is one called Pied Beauty:
"GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise him."
-- posted by Barbara Bell
» scuba_steve - I completely understand!
I often feel the exact same way when comparing the natural world to the man made. Thanks for your natural way of putting it into words. It is always nice to know that there is someone out there that feels the same way I do about nature. As always, I enjoyed your article very much!-- posted by scuba_steve
» Dan_Ellsworth - It's All Nature and all that
At some abstract theoretical level I can accept that even the brains in an advertising agency are "natural", but the it's-all-nature thing descended from "misleading" to "ridiculous" when an advertisement said a certain brand was made "as Nature intended a fine beer to be". Hooah! Well, it's good to have somebody speaking up for *real* nature, and (as one Supreme Court Justice said about obscenity) maybe we can't define it, but we know it when we see it.And we are nourished thereby.
And that other "universe" IS something like "next door", at least where I live. A good thing, too.
-- posted by Dan_Ellsworth
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