Gratitude
By: Bela Johnson
Tags: gratitude, life, nature, random thoughts
Category: beauty, gardening, Hawaii, lifestyle, poetry, Uncategorized
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Some days the love just wells up inside of me
and it is frightening to contemplate
the magnitude and breadth of my place
in Creation’s scheme;
A gratitude for life, for the creatures in it,
the diversity and color and timbre of voices,
abundance of individuality;
goodness of the ground I am
privileged to cultivate.
Trees that allow me to climb them,
bare feet gripping branches where hang
round-bodied orbs impossible to consume
in their profusion – meant of course
to share, to give away,
fulfilling fruit’s ambition to spread seed.
Folks come to Hawai’i and head for the beach
to warm winter-weary limbs in a viscous bath of salt,
and though I am a swimmer, it is to the land I am drawn.
Stepping out my back lanai in the late afternoon to water,
arcing streams of salvation to each green and growing thing;
even unto a plethora of flowers to which I surrender delight.
Years of harsh winters before arriving on these shores
and I couldn’t bear to watch fragile petals crumple;
dead stalks propped up with frost.
Gazing up over the tops of giant Norfolk pines,
the sun pales to a palette of pinks and golds,
enfolding the land in the indigo twilight of evening.
Bela, simply beautiful writing. You outdid yourself with that lovely poem.
Awww, thanks so much, Ronnie. Certainly appreciate your praise 😉
Bela,
That was so wonderful and so resonates. You know why?
Because deep inside I sense my values aligned with Gratitude, Beauty and Learning. Your post on Gratitude seems to weave in and out of Beauty and , if I may conjecture learning too!
Blessings
Shakti
Shakti! Have missed your voice. Hoping all is well with you.
Thanks, as always, for your kind and thoughtful comments.
Aloha,
Bela