Spirit and Nature (Love and Beauty)

Good Sunday Morning in May. These are pictures taken this week along the Capital Crescent trail from Georgetown in DC to Bethesda MD. It is along the Potomac River/ Canal Path,  a mere 30 mile round trip bike ride from my house in Alexandria. The smells of the flowers in the trees  and the sounds of the cardinals calls and the feel of the cool breeze I cannot give you but the sights I can.The sky was a rare deep blue.  The overall impression is caught in a poem written by me long ago.Click the pictures twice to enlarge.  

love light

  When darkness sets in

and despair makes a home in your heart,
it is because the lamp of love
has become unplugged from your heart.
 

When sensitivity occupies your mind
like a sentry on a parapet looking for trouble 

 but sees nothing but lightening in the distance
 and mistakens it for incoming artillery,
 It is because the lens
on the telescope of love has become clouded.
Love  brings the distant unreal fears of destruction
into focus and reduces them to nothing more
than the impersonal workings of nature. 


When rage obliterates your capacity to reason,

When excess of sensory stimuli dulls
your capacity to live in simplicity and purity,
When laziness has metamorphosed 
you into a numbed mass of cells, 

It is because you have allowed the power of Love to dull. 

 Love is the razor sharp sword cutting through 
the physical/ mental /emotional/ spiritual debris called ego. 

  It chisels us into the shape and form 

of our soul nature. Love is our soul nature.

Love fights to free love
from its bondage. 


by michelle, circa 2006-ish