Thanks Vlada, it will be another place to discuss and share and birth new poems and share the poems we all love

Thanks for the artful quotes Vlada and thanks for filling out the welcome section for the group

Welcome to the Poetry Group Eva, I look forward to reading and writing with you

'Life is a thing of many stages and moving parts. What we do with ease at one time of life we can hardly manage at another. What we could not fathom doing when we were young, we find great joy in when we are old. Like the seasons through which we move, life itself is a never-ending series of harvests, a different fruit for every time.'
~ Joan D. Chittister

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Black Elk

God I love what you wrote Vlada.

This is the most beautiful sweet wall in all the world, thank you, everyone

 Your welcome to Julies poetry Group Tara,glad your enjoying it..

"The two grew together from one stem, each bloomed in perfection, each had a part to play in their unity"

Julie

Welcome Tara, I hope you decide to add your poems to the group

Known in the gardening world as flower 'facination'...

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/environmental/fasci...

I've seen flattened stems think it was on the tall white daisies, always interesting is nature

about 10 mins cycle away from my home, I love how nature changes throughout the year, feel much cooler this week after a very hot day on Saturday

Why are you so afraid of silence, 

silence is the root of everything.

If you spiral into its void,

a hundred voices will thunder 

messages you long to hear.

~ Rumi

When the heart speaks, 

the mind finds it indecent to object. 

~ Milan Kundera , The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time.  It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment"

~ Graham Nash

from todays Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids inspiration for life newsletter

"Each life needs its own quiet place" ~ Melody Beattie

A garden is a grand teacher.  It teaches patience and careful watchfulness;  it teaches industry and thrift;  above all it teaches entire trust.

~ Gertrude Jekyll

"Magical Wings" ~ Julie

Merging

Merging with the earth we blend together

each footstep brings us joy

tell tale signs of autumn creep upon us

a thicker coat I will need to employ

Gone is summer until next year

we must take our rest while we can

lots of cups of hot chocolate

it's all a part of earth's renovation plan

Julie

Nov 2023

edited Nov '24

Whats with squirrels popping into my consciousness online of late every where I look I see pictures of them or video, I even had a conversation about them on another site with a lady from Canada, so some kind of message is trying to be spoken I think but I'm not sure why?

squirrels who live near by house are my friends and we have a relationship! 

Its because they are so funny!

https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/spirit-totem-power-animal-meanings...

Yes love squirrels too Tara, in fact one was in our garden yesterday, thanks for the link

Thank you Julie :o)

Great quote Ametrine, glad you joined the group

Thank you Julie, I am glad to be here :o)

Beautiful videos :o)

"It is the " I" behind the "eye" that does the seeing"

Song to Brighid is exactly what the Earth needs to hear right now.

Thank you Julie :o) 

Enjoyed your quotes Ametrine, many thanks.  I wrote a few poems yesterday, inspired by the change of seasons.

'She walks in beauty, like the night' - She Walks in Beauty - Lord Byron.

Glad you enjoyed the videos I posted, blessings always

Blessings Julie, I always like your words and your world :o)))

Nice Ametrine..:o)

Thank you, Vlada :o)

Thanks Ametrine I love all the stories of Tolkien, Happy Solstice xx

:o) Thank you, Julie :o)

Always glad when you are here Ametrine xx

Thank you Julie, 

Picking up the Magic

A trip to the beach is magic married in exploration

in finding the beauty in each rocky temptation!

Gathering together the jewelled colours of stone

feeling the rock in fingers and bone

Water washed, shiny and smooth

my little fingers they found each new groove

Limpet shells, cockles galore

oh I love exploring the shore!

Julie

January 2025

Blessings and thanks Ametrine

So true Julie! So beautifully expressed! Thank you :o)))

I always loved trips to the beach as a youngster, and even now find great pleasure in finding treasurers in nature...long live the inner child Ametrine 

I am still doing it Julie, each time i go out, and to the beach, I love picking up little treasures , because they are treasures for us, aren't they?

they are little treasures for sure and they hold good memories of trips to the beach and walking on the sand Ametrine

yes, and the smell, the wind, the elements, this is so intense and precious!

Yes, the smell, my mum and dad didn't much enjoy the crabs legs and shells and bits of seaweed I used to pick up in my little bucket, but I had a nature table and everything was arriving there, so much fun...I had many a smile when I found a stone glossed up by the sea, such excitement.  Last beach holiday I had was on the Isle of Man, it was the first time I found a lovely piece of bottle green glass....a new treasure to hold 

:o) I wish you to be able to go to the beach each time your heart needs so :o) 

Oh yeah beach memories, love going to the beach and I go often, just to unwind, walk the sand barefoot, get fresh air in my lungs... as a kid I was like you then Julie, everything came home, smelly or disgusting, my poor Nanny she had her limits, but she did let me bring stuff home that we all could make wind chimes with, shells, dried seaweed & drift wood mostly & any other oddity that would look good tied to strings, and we'd spend the next day making them, oh fun. I still like making stuff, I know it was she who bought out my artistic craft side within nature out in me..

So glad your Nanny gifted you in this way Vlada, she sounds like a wonderful person to have had in your life.  My Nan as I called mum's mum had a gift for gardening and I remember well her apple pies.  My dad's mum I didn't see often as she lived further away but I think she liked cooking.  

My nearest beach is about 40 miles away, so I think that's why I love to go to visit the narrowboat at the marina....water is so relaxing.... we even get waves on the canal around Bridge 80!  Wales was my parents go to place, mostly North Wales and sometimes the Wirral coastline when I was a youngster.  

Crafting is a good way to enjoy nature and bring on the memories....I have a dish of stones which hold past times and even bits of dried seaweed and the odd crab leg!  

In my memories for now Ametrine xx

:o)