At dVerse Kim is hosting Haibun Monday, inviting us to to write about our sense of wonder. dVerse Poets – Haibun Monday
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” John Burroughs
To Feel Again
Here in this place there is a sense of hope. To feel nature making her own way with a lush offering is a sensual privilege, to see to touch, to feel, to taste. The divinest of lovers. She is there, waiting, unmarried, mistress to no one. Waiting for all to come and sit alongside her charming soothe.
There is life in this place like no other. Even in that rotting humous, especially there, there is an abundance of life bursting before my eyes. Even in the dry rustling carpet, tenants and squatters alike come to feast, to produce life and to surrender it.
This is a place to be, just that, to be, to feel again, to be me, to be one of, one with, this crowd. Here I can connect, be grounded once more.
Where the grass tree grows comes spring looking at me I fly like feathers ©Paul Vincent Cannon
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So beautiful!
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Thank you so much Cheryl.
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The last line is with very deep thoughts behind. Beautiful!
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Many thanks for sharing your thoughts Michael, much appreciated.
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Being in nature is always so therapeutic. It’s extremely beneficial to my mental health.
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Thats true. We better can calm done then. Bet wishes, Michael
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We need more of it, thank you Michael.
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Indeed, Paul! Thank you too.
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🙂
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Stunning … a wonderful capture of all that is beauty.
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So uplifting, Paul. Thank you.
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Thank you Sandy, yes, a little nature goes a long way.
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Especially these days.
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Yes, especially so, we really do need the uplift.
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Just thinking about the promise of nature’s renewal gives me hope and peace.
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Yes, it is so simple isn’t it, and to immerse even for short periods is wonderful.
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Indeed it is.
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You conveyed not only a sense of hope in your haibun, Paul, but also the all-important sense of wonder. I love the description of nature as ‘the divinest of lovers’ and the abundance of life in the rotting humous as ‘tenants and squatters’.
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Wonder is so important for me, and its cousin – curiosity, I feel alive in wonder. Thank you so much Kim.
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I love the sense in this… and it reminds me that spring will come here too… the sense of life in the humous I can imagine… and the gardener in me wants to sow seeds
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I sure know that feeling of sowing, yes, spring will come – we will send it on.
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You capture the charm of nature so well, Paul.
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Thank you VJ, I do try, I feel an affinity with the bush.
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Welcome.
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Ahh… “I fly like feathers”. Truly beautiful, Paul.
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That is wonderful to hear, thank you Amy
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Truly amazing👌🏻
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Thank you so much.
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You’re always welcome!
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🙂
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You sang my song in this poem – thank you for putting into words this deep deep sense of oneness and healing in this place
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My pleasure 🙂
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