Perspectives
Contemplate nature
Transition
Copyright Francis 2021
Modern Haiku: Perspectives
Category: nature
One May Smile
The shark’s reputation precedes him,
demonized in the minds of millions,
movie-goers jumping,
or hiding behind
their darkened seats.
Predators must hunt,
unsmiling and relentless,
the prey must die
so they can live;
for nature’s complexity
is for us to understand — not judge.
A greater power than Man
put this realm together.
And as a poet once said:
‘…one may smile, and smile,
and be a villain–‘
So step back,
you silver-tongued fiends,
those who think
they know better;
Your power is temporal,
so brief,
whilst the shark’s honest instinct
is ageless, only taking its due.
*Quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5, line 108.
Copyright Francis 2020
Earthweal Weekly Challenge: Shark Poetry
Noisy Skies — One Woman’s Quest II (Reblog)
(Weekend Sky challenge)
Noisy Skies — One Woman’s Quest II
Critter Close Ups~ — (Reblog)
Curious Vervet Kruger National Park. South African zebra Poses for her portrait. Happy ostrich is ready for a close up, while artfully made up Ms. Giraffe puts on the glam. Barbary Ape in Gibraltar looks ready for a serious conservation. Magellanic penguin stares me down in Ushuaia, Argentina. California Channel Island Fox poses quite smartly, […]
Critter Close Ups~ —
Elephants Facing East — Meditations in Motion (Reblog)
Photo by Harvey Sapir on Pexels.com My mother was a superstitious person. She clapped for luck when she saw white horses, threw a pinch of spilled salt over her shoulder to prevent catastrophe, and had a collection of carved elephants forever facing East. Several years ago, while visiting my son and daughter-in-law, who shared my […]
Elephants Facing East — Meditations in Motion
Black Fungi — I can’t believe it! (Reblog)
I seem to have come across a few black fungi recently, so tried to identify them. This one was in grassland on a cliff in Devon in the summer, 1-2 inches across. I’m not sure about this, but it could be indigo pinkgill. This one was on a dead birch log in the autumn in […]
Black Fungi — I can’t believe it!
Video: Short Walk along the River Glen
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What is the Relationship between Mind and Nature? — Exopermaculture — Blue Dragon Journal (Reblog)
— especially when we see through a screen? What would McKenna say now about our screens? It’s not just television that is a drug. Take me, for example. My root addiction is “the news.” I thought it was cigarettes — which I finally released at 39 when transit “sudden changes” Uranus opposed its natal degree,… What […]
What is the Relationship between Mind and Nature? — Exopermaculture — Blue Dragon Journal
Haiku: ‘Recycle’
Unchanging nature
Constantly changing seasons
Spirits recycling
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
Black-and-White Birds — tanja britton (Reblog)
The combination of the colors black and white is considered elegant and classy, not only with regard to fashion, but also when it comes to feather arrangements, as many posts by fellow bird-loving bloggers attest. When I assembled my avian portraits a few months back, my only intention was to share a selection of Colorado’s […]
Black-and-White Birds — tanja britton
The Nature of Time and the Illusion of Progress — The Wisdom of Our Grandmothers
Here is the latest video on the Essentialist Astrology Channel: For more information on this subject, see: Guénon, René, The Dark Age, The Crisis of the Modern World, Sophia Perennis, 1942 Trent, Alice Lucy, Cycles of Time, The Feminine Universe, The Golden Order Press, 1997 Kali Yuga: The Patriarchal Dark Age Satya Yuga to Kali […]
The Nature of Time and the Illusion of Progress — The Wisdom of Our Grandmothers
*Astrology for beginners.
