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OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
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Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2012-08-03 02:58 AM



WEALTH
8 April 2012

Lush colours of nature’s palette
master-blended, the backdrop to
avian secrets shared
and tremulously received;
lazy cloud shapes hold my gaze
as they move and change
their shapes
and have their being;
flutter-breeze
tickles a million leaves
into waving to it
and me
and all who care;
Eager canine paws
and closed-eye feline purrs
and four adoring and adored eyes . . .
have I died and gone to Heaven?
Hadedahs shattering nature’s whispers
with their raucous and much-loved infectious laughter;
blue-headed lizard basking in the sun
safely out of sight of my dog
who does blue-headed lizard patrols
at incredulous puppy speed;
butterflies of all colours and sizes
take their turn
one by flutter-butter one,
on the centre stage;
my two most faithful washingline wasps,
rebuilding their home mostly-demolished in high winds;
children nextdoor singing Happy Birthday
with unabated joy;
birds skimming the sky high overhead
and others descending
with miniscule accuracy on a tree
performing their tiny ablutions;
all this in my own back garden;
how rich and bountiful is life
and how blessed I am;
the rat-race hustle and bustle of life
and all its problems
are dispersed in this Easter Sunday showering
of gratitude and peace;
the sun gilding all I see.

I wrap all this up in my arms
and take it inside
to paint the rest of my working day
with the beauty of nature’s glory,
and peace
and harmonious companionship.

Owl

© Copyright 2012 Diana van den Berg - All Rights Reserved
secondhanddreampoet
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1 posted 2012-08-03 09:49 AM


finely personal 'slice of life' write !
OwlSA
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2 posted 2012-08-03 10:13 AM


Thanks, Bruce.  Glad you enjoyed it.

Owl

Startime1955
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since 2012-04-22
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Alberta, Canada
3 posted 2012-08-03 06:13 PM


*sigh* when you write so beautifully it holds all the wealth we need...nature is priceless and you write it very well...*BIG HUGS*

*may our dreams ever be magical*

OwlSA
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Durban, South Africa
4 posted 2012-08-03 06:50 PM


Thank you, Startime, for your kind words.  Yes, Nature is indeed priceless.

Owl

JamesMichael
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5 posted 2012-08-03 10:13 PM


A pleasure to read...James
OwlSA
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6 posted 2012-08-04 11:00 AM


Thank you, James.

Owl

Klassy Lassy
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since 2005-06-28
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Oregon
7 posted 2012-08-04 11:21 PM


I read this early this morning and lost my reply in cyber space, with a tempermental keyboard at my fingertips.  I felt the wings in this write, even the wasps, which make me shudder.  

The imagery is so colorful.  I was glad your puppy didn't find the lizard, but I wondered at the color.  Blue never occured to me.  In spring, I see salamanders and frogs doing their dance across the wet avenues and roads in the car headlights at night.  But lizards like the warm weather, and we don't find them here...except for a large pet one of the teacher had in his classroom.

I think the title is perfect.  The joy permeates and the abundance of nature leaves me smiling.

Amaryllis
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since 2010-05-20
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8 posted 2012-08-04 11:50 PM


So beautiful and full of peace and gratitude...a gift for me to read today. Thank you for sharing it!

My best,
Amaryllis

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California
9 posted 2012-08-05 12:34 PM


True "wealth", Diana.
                    Ida

latearrival
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since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499
Florida
10 posted 2012-08-05 01:34 AM


Would that more people could see the beauty of nature,there righ in their midst and they wander by clueless. You are priceless. jo
OwlSA
Member Rara Avis
since 2005-11-07
Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa
11 posted 2012-08-05 03:16 AM


Thank you, Karen, for your very appreciative, beautiful, rich, detailed and fascinating reply especially for coming back a second time, after losing your first one.  If you had an email address button, I would see if I have a good representative photo of a blue-headed lizard and send it to you.  If you have an email address, but don’t want to add it on Pip, just click on my email button and give it to me in an email and I will send the best photo I can find.  I have taken several photos of my blue-headed friends.  My waspy friends aren’t shudderful.  There aren’t many and I have only been stung once – on the ear and it was quite funny – wrote a poem about it and posted it sometime within the last year – can’t quite remember the title, though - I have just looked it up - it is called: The Story of a Reindeer, an Aeroplane and a Temporary Princess.  It wasn’t the wasp’s fault.  I turned round and walked right into the unsuspecting little sweetie, and then, to add insult to injury, I instinctively brushed him/her  away before seeing who he/she was, so quite rightly, in his/her defence, he/she stung (instinctively too!) the huge human attackeress.  

Amaryllis, I am very deeply happy and grateful that my poem could bring you peace and gratitude, especially in the light of your poem to which I have just replied.  

Thank you, Ida!  Yes, this is the only true wealth – and one that brings a great measure of happiness in the scariest of monetary stresses.  

Thank you, Jo, for your kind words.  Yes, it scrapes my insides raw that so many people are blind and deaf and oblivious to their olfactory, taste and touch senses and emotions when such natural wealth is right there all around them, even in the dirtiest, grimiest, industrial areas.  The waste of that beauty on them also frustrates me – and here, I am not talking about from their point of view, but the waste of the beauty itself which could have been so much more appreciated.  

Owl

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