In Japanese folklore, Wisteria vines are sometimes depicted as weakening a demon's power. #BloomScrolling #April #Nature

Spring air.
Nobody knows
how it appears and disappears.
The sun opens its eyes:
Sprouts shoot in my thoughts.
Air more than leaves,
a flutter barely green,
they turn for a moment and scatter.
Time weighs a little less.
I breathe.
-- Octavio Paz
#BloomScrolling #PoeticNature

Do Not Fear Blooming Boldly
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth” -Pema Chödrön
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
- Toni Morrison
#BloomScrolling #PoeticNature

#BloomScrolling #PoeticNature #AppleBlossoms #April
"How far are you from me,
O Fruit?
I am hidden in your heart,
O Flower."
- Robindranath Tagore,
Bengali poet

Walt Whitman: Lincoln’s Death
"When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." Shot April 14, 1865, died April 15, 1865
#BloomScrolling #PoeticApril #Nature #SpringLilacs

- Will Shakespeare
“From you have I been absent in the Spring, When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything, That heavy Saturn laughed and leaped with him.”
#BloomScrolling #PoeticNature #Spring

Anais Nin: “Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Perfection is static, and I am in full progress”
#BloomScrolling #Hellebore #TruthAndBeauty #PoeticNature

“Nothing happens in which you are not entangled in a secret manner, for everything has ordered itself around you and plays your innermost. The stars whisper your deepest mysteries to you, and the soft valleys of the earth rescue you in a motherly womb" Jung: The Red Book #BloomScrolling #Nature

“Magnolia you sweet thing,
You’re driving me Wild” J.J. Kale

Magnolias existed ~
Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth…
Before Homosapiens…
Before Honeybees…
Beauty finds a way…
#BloomScrolling #TruthAndBeauty #Nature

Trilliums: Mary Oliver
Every spring
among
the ambiguities
of childhood
the hillsides grew white
with the wild trilliums.

I believed in the world.
Oh, I wanted
to be easy
in the peopled kingdoms,
to take my place there,
but there was none.
#BloomScrolling #Spring #PoeticNature

#BloomScrolling #Nature
#PoetryMonth
#MondayMood
Today I’m flying low
not saying a word
letting all the voodoos
of ambition sleep.
Taking the day off.
Quiet as a feather.
I hardly move though really
I’m traveling a terrific distance.
Stillness. One of the doors
into the temple.
-Mary Oliver

#BeHereNow #BloomScrolling
#AprilShowers #PoeticNature
“Fearlessness is what love seeks... Such fearlessness exists only in the complete calm that can no longer be shaken by events expected of the future... Hence the only valid tense is the Present, the Now.” -Hannah Arendt

With deep concern about the deconstruction of the Forest Service and turning the wilds into a commodity, I was reminded early this morning of this from Eihei Dogen: “Mountains and waters right now are the actualization of the ancient Buddha way.”

Let the rain kiss you Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops Let the rain sing you a lullaby The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk The rain makes running pools in the gutter The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night -Langston Hughes #BloomScrolling #AprilRain

April #PoetryMonth
#BloomScrolling #Nature
"Poetry calls us to pause.
There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own." - Naomi Shihab Nye

"No Winter lasts forever.
No Spring skips its turn.
April is a promise that
May is bound to Keep.”
- Hal Borland
#BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry #Spring

sama zama no
mono omoidasu
sakura kana
+++++++++
So many things
they call into my thoughts
cherry blossoms!
-Basho
#BloomScrolling #Nature
#Haiku #Spring

"In my youth I was but the slave of the high tide and ebb tide of the sea, and the prisoner of half moons and full moons. Today I stand at this shore and I rise not, nor do I go down. " -Kahlil Gibran
#BloomScrolling
#Nature #Poets #Spring

“The cherry trees that lined the street were pink and trembling, exhausted by the burden of so many petals. They turned the light pink and gold.”
- Ann Patchett: Dutch House
#BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetics #Spring

“In the Autumn, I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden.
And when April returned and Spring came to Wed the Earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers, unlike all other flowers. - Khalil Gibran 💛
#BloomScrolling #Spring #Nature #Poetry

Lacy exuberance of Spring overflowing with blossom foam like a sudsy mug of beer like a bride ripping off her clothes dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds. Nature's wastefulness seems quietly obscene, making beauty and throwing it away, and making more -Tony Hoagland
#BloomScrolling

#FarewellMarch
#BloomScrolling #Poetry
#Nature
“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say, "Look!"and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”-Mary Oliver

"This great rolling sphere with its sky, its stars, its sunrises and sunsets, and with its outlook into infinity, what could be more desirable? What more satisfying?” John Burroughs
Born 105 years ago today
#BloomScrolling #Nature #Mistletoe

March is vanishing with winter’s leafless trees getting greener each day … hazel tree catkins

Mary Oliver: “Light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable and redemptive."
#BloomScrolling #Spring #Poetry #Nature

“ We do not Create our Destiny;
we Participate in its Unfolding.
Synchronicity works as a Catalyst toward the working out of that Destiny.” - David Richo
#BloomScrolling #Nature #Coincidence

‘scuse Me, while I kiss the sky ..
- Jimi Hendrix
Blue Sky emerges from rain clouds #cherryblossoms
#BloomScrolling #Nature #Spring

“ Clouds drift ephemeral across the dome of this world, carrying eternity condensing molecules that animated the first breath of life, coursing with electric charges that will power the last thought.” M. Popova
#BloomScrolling #Nature #Poetry #Clouds

May I live this day
Compassionate of heart,
Clear in word,
Gracious in awareness, Courageous in thought, Generous in love.
- John O’Donohue
#BloomScrolling #Spring #Nature #Poetry
Waxing Gibbous Moon

#BloomScrolling #Nature #Poets
The Way In - Linda Hogan
Sometimes the way to milk and honey is through the body.
Sometimes the way in is a song
To enter stone, be water.
To rise through hard earth be plant, desiring sunlight, believing in water.

Native Pacific Hounds Tongue

#BloomScrolling
#Nature #Poetry
“If only we could speak to one another [as sleeping], when our hearts are half-open flowers. Words, like golden bees
would drift in.” Rolf Jacobson