June 26th, 2008
Nature's Diary:Stray Birds
My thoughts shimmer with these shimmering leaves and my heart sings with the touch of this sunlight; my life is glad to be floating with all things into the blue of space, into the dark of time.
“How far are you from me, O Fruit?”
“I am hidden in your heart, O Flower.”
The fish in the water is silent, the animal on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing, but Man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth
and the music of the air.
The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth.
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
Tiny grass, your steps are small, but you possess the earth under your tread.
My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening.