Thoughts for Summer Solstice

~ by e.e. cummings ~

 

 i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

earrings and ring

last green leaves before autumn


other photos

More Dragonflies, More BrightandShinyThings

The Dragon-fly

~Alfred Lord Tennyson

Today I saw the dragon-fly
Come from the wells where he did lie.

An inner impulse rent the veil
Of his old husk: from head to tail

Came out clear plates of sapphire mail.
He dried his wings: like gauze they grew;

Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew
A living flash of light he flew.

Capture a beaded dragonfly here.