Poetry Thursday - Words I Love
Looking east from Mt Agassi in the California Sierra Nevadas"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you
as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
~John Muir
I found myself caught in the Poetry Thursday prompt and decided to think about things and words I love... one of my favorite wordsmiths is John Muir --- his words inspired the following:
High on the mountains
cares drop off like autumn leaves
I find renewal.
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posted by Endment at 6:42 AM
25 Comments:
Endment, thank you this. I love John Muir, and your haiku is downright incandescent. That reminds me - I have to get a good book on haiku conventions.
Beautiful - both John Muir's poem and your own Haiku! And great photo. Thank you.
love this poem!
Wow!! Look at that view - Breath taking!
You've captured it perfectly.
This is just what I needed to see today. It gives me strength for the morrow. Thank you for sharing it.
Oh this photo just took my breath away! Look at that view!!!
Nature is so amazing. Love your Haiku and the poem.
a.
yes.. I love the Sierra Nevadas. I look at them every day. Great poems.
I love the Sierra Nevadas. We often hiked there on our vacations. The eastern slope is just magnificent, the way it rises up from the flat valley and reaches as high as 14,000. John Muir's writings are what first inspired my trips into the Sierras. Later, I found Gary Snyder's poems. He also writes of hiking there. Thanks so much for posting such beautiful words and photo of one of my favorite places on earth.
Your post makes me want to find a mountain and make it mine. You also inspire me to take a closer look at John Muir. Thanks!
Muir is indeed one of the world's great wordsmiths. So who better to look to for words you love? Your haiku is lovely, Endment. Cares really truly are like autumn leaves. Sometimes we cling to our cares (for whatever reasons) a little longer than we should ... the way leaves seem not to want to let go their branches.
Until they do.
And when we let go of our cares, ahhh...
A side note to kerrdelune: if you are interested in a website that goes into detail about the conventions and "rules" of haiku, I have recently discovered this one. Enjoy!
Thanks for this wonderful post! It is so appropriate, as we are about to leave for a trip across the Rocky Mountains to Denver, and I am especially excited about the mountains. I've been told twice now to be sure to go to Rocky Mountain National Park, which should have views like the one in your photo. Can't wait. Love the John Muir poem too...
Hi Endment, Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving such a lovely note. Your post today fills me with energy. There must be quite a story behind that photo. John Muir has been on my virtual bookshelf for ten years or so. Now I am moved to delve into his writing. Finally, your haiku was so much fun to read out loud.
Lovely- Muir, the image, and your Haiku, simply beautiful. Thank you.
I come here for peace. :-)
kerrdelune
Haiku - there is a wonderful on-line link http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiartjr.htm
and a couple of other resources
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/
http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#howtowritehaiku
I have some more I will put up when I find them again :)
paris parfait
if you cant tell - I love John Muirs writing.
joy eliz
I didn't make it up there but the pictures are wonderful
harmonyinline
thankyou so much
star
We are sending you lots of strength and prayers
andrea
You can almost see to "forever" :)
cynthia e. bagley
there are moments in June and July when I envy your view but in September and October I'll take mine :)
robin andrea
we always take a Muir book along when we hike out west- it is our daily reading :) our kids were raised on wood smoke, hiking and John Muir :)
mojoman
glad to hear it - you can learn a lot about Muir by clicking his name on my sidebar. Wonderful site!
ravengirl
you are so right - sometimes it is the turning loose that is so very difficult.
sigrid jardin
have a wonderful trip!!! I also love the Rockies but the views seem a lot different to me...
Guess I still get homesick for the Rockies.
potato print
yes there is a story but it is a long one :)
Thanks for your visit and your comment
mikim and cynthia e. bagley
I am delighted you enjoy your visit - please come anytime and of course --- please leave your comment :)
It was the photograph that gripped me first - but the haiku is lovely too. I think I like it better than John Muir's words, sometimes brief expresses it all
Thank you, Endment, and your beautiful conversation with John Muir--we're the lucky ones.
John Muir knows my heart :) Your lovely haiku echos the beauty that surrounds me. Beautiful!!!!
John Muir--and Yosemite, one of the seven wonders of the world. And how beautifully Ansel Adams captured it, too. Ansel actually taught at and did the early catalogs for my school. There has been a bad landslide this year at the main entrance into Yosemite forcing the tourists and outdoors people to use other entrances.
I could really relate to the words and to the mountains - mountains are beautiful - so peaceful. So majestic.
if only i could right now...climb a mountain...as such..your beautiful reflections have take me there...
A dialogue with John Muir — now there's something worthwhile! And your haiku takes me there. This wrinkled landscape is extraordinary. Makes me want to gain altitude!
I can practically smell that clean cold air ....
What inspiration--your words, Muir's, and the place where the photograph was taken. What a striking landscape--I would love to see it in person.
Your photography and postings always so fresh and inspiring!
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