Quote of the moment

When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

-Wendell Berry: The Peace or the Wild Things

Dec 9, 2008

Ripples



Light glitters on water ripples
Moon full in the sky above
Stars twinkle in the jet-black
Fall air brisk in the cove

Frogs sing their mellow cries
An owl make known from wood
He stops his rowing to listen
Would stay forever if he could

Peace, a peace and quiet, a peace
A quiet so pure as the crickets sound
Stillness with a gentle breeze
Hear the bay of a far off hound

One with the world with its own soul
A peace that stirs the deepest core
Silent of the noise of another mortal
Only nature to make heart soar

Without the racing of man’s world
Forever would one want to stay
Within a place forever unchanging
Keeping the rest of society at bay.

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