Nature, On Cue OR Mind-Body-Spirit, Balancing Act
A new poem today. (Still working on a kenning.) I was in my kitchen, watching sunlight through trees in the garden glancing off the very table at which I was sitting...a poem forming in my head even as I watched foxes playing and sunning themselves on the lawn attached to the basement flat below. I had been feeling sorry for myself after getting little sleep due to both a venous infection harassing my left foot and my prostate cancer making demands on my bladder. As I watched, my spirits began to rise; it was as if surrounding positive life forces were urging me to get the better of despondency and re-establish affinity with the brighter side of life.
I took the hint, spent ages on the poem and an feeling much the better for it. Whether or not my critics may judge it a good poem is less important than its reconciling me with a love for nature and faith in human nature, often tested in a person's later years when demands of the day include having to rise about health and mobility problems, make at least some headway on the housework, negotiate mad, rushing crowds long enough get the shopping done and still manage to keep looking on that often elusive brighter side of life.
NATURE, ON CUE or MIND-BODY-SPIRIT, BALANCING ACT
for its history, a learning curve to its mystery,
our Here-and-Now
Copyright R. N. Taber 2019
Labels: darkness, Here-and-Now, history, human, identity, inspiration, life, light, love, love. poetry, mind-body-spirit, nature, personal, positive thinking, space, spirit
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