From the series: "Tree Time"

mzwarthoed
recent  |  interesting  |  random  |  favorites  |  contacts  |  sets  |  tags:  
From the series:
From the series: "Tree Time"


TREES


What trees try to say
in their slow silence, their vague murmuring,
the sense they have, there where they are,
the reverence, the resonance, the transparency
and the bright and shadowy accents of an airy phrase.
And the shade and the leaves are the innocence of an idea
that between water and space turned itself to lithe integrity.
Beneath the magic breath of the light they are transparent boats.
I don’t know if it’s air or blood budding from their boughs.
I hear the finest foam of their green throats.
I am not, never will be, far from that pure water
and those ancient lamps of hidden isles.
What pure serenity of memory, what horizons
surrounding the silent well! It is a song in sleep
and the wind and light are the breath of a child
who upon a bough of a tree embraces the world.

Antonio Ramos Rosa

Translation: Alexis Levitin

© All Rights Reserved
Taken on: December 16, 2021
Tags: Everybody's photos tagged with Bargerveen Bargerveen Everybody's photos tagged with Into Nature Into Nature Everybody's photos tagged with Awoiska van der Molen Awoiska van der Molen
Sets appears in:   • Tree Time   
Groups appears in:   • Magic Moments    • Nobody is there    more » • the poetics of space    • The World Through My Eyes ...    • Silence    • Silentium    • haphazart! Abstractions    • Peoplelessness    • Abstrait / Abstraction    • Abstractology    • PLANET EARTH OUR HOME    • Zwart/wit    • bitches brew | NO PEOPLE!!!    • Shadow of a Doubt    • *poetry of images    • Visual Haiku    • A conversation with trees, and other plants.    • silence is a two way street    • the world i see    • Spirit of the Land    • a place to dream ♥    • perception and feelings    • // The One-Eyed Poet    • All kind of Landscapes    • I do it my way    • My Monochrome World    • @Unclassifiable    • Genius loci: The spirit of a place    • En toute Objectivité, c'est très Subjectif    « less
Stats: 3,594 views / 11 comments