I
Blessings
on the orange sun.
on the orange sun.
II
As we rise
to greet the morn
you touch the flowers
and the leaves
that fruit
may grow
upon
your trees
your trees
that grow
the perfumed air
adorn themselves
with blossom
fair
with blossom
fair
for the insect
and the dreamer's eye.
III
One tree
grows fruit
grows love
grows air
grows love
grows air
protects
with shade
a place
of peace
one tree
grows here
for all
to see.
IV
Blessings
on your orange trees.
Lovely! And a tree that gives with generous hands: juicy sweet fruits, at the same time blossoms with a scent that make you swoon, and those dark green hard leaves are beautiful too.
ReplyDeleteThanks, and I agree with your every word. Perhaps peoples with differences living in countries on or near the Mediterranean should organize themselves so that they are able live together or at least alongside each other armed with the blessings endowed by nature and not with explosives and suicidal fanaticism. But it is not so. And I wonder if it ever will be. Today in Istanbul another mass murder, to give it its right name.
DeleteYes, shocking. And so sad.
DeleteImmer.
Deleteone
is one
too many.
__So much before, then Bagdad, and now Istanbul, and all the innocents have paid the price. Still... > we cannot see the goats in a herd of sheep < (my paraphrasing of Franz Werfel)
ReplyDelete__We should all, Tend the Trees of life's fruit. _m
We are living in the most interesting of times. I wouldn't swap it for the world. A woman is telling a million muslim men what to do.
DeleteI hope I live long enough to see how it all pans out. Are we heading up Orwell Road? Tonight's new crescent sharp as a sickle hangs above my back.
Orwellian atmospheres, and here too, the metaphoric *Directive, 10-289*_.
Delete__They imply we are ignorant, but their
"Intellectual Politics," minimizes any common sense we had; that then, is one of their tools, the diminishment of common moral thought.
Thanks. Never heard of those numbers. Will have a look see.
DeleteAll animals are equal, but some are more equal than others - Animal Farm
DeleteThere's a Rubicks cube somewhere, with all sides the same colour which is red. That's what's going on here. Everybody has the same chance of shoving the puzzle regardless of ability, qualifications, integrity and so on.