I walk upon an endless sea of green needles and look ahead to see a great sparkling star, the Northern Star in the vast blue pond of millions of other sparkles.
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Category: Nature
Author: Ruby G. Stone
Contributed by: Alexandra |
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Source: None Listed
Category: Nature
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Contributed by: Darina Stoyanova |
The rain was so intense it was raining pitchforks and little green frogs!
Source: None Listed
Category: Nature
Author: Delle Hunter
Contributed by: Laurie Buchanan |
Simile: On the tidal mud, just before sunset, dozens of starfishes were creeping. It was as though the mud were a sky and enormous, imperfect stars moved across it as slowly as the actual stars cross heaven
Source: Daybreak
Category: Nature
Author: Galway Kinnell
Contributed by: Editors |
Simile: ...as October sweetens the flesh of the McIntosh apple
Source: Praise for Death
Category: Nature
Author: Donald Hall
Contributed by: Editors |
The mind is an ocean...and so many worlds are rolling there, mysterious, dimly seen! And our bodies? Our body is a cup floating on the ocean...
Source: The Jar with the Dry Rim
Category: Nature
Author: Rumi
Contributed by: Editors |
This meadow is composing a tale of a spring day in May...
Source: The Garden
Category: Nature
Author: Hafez
Contributed by: Editors |
It's all right for a beggar to brag that he is a King today. His royal tent is a shadow thrown by a cloud; his throne room is a sown field
Source: The Garden
Category: Nature
Author: Hafez
Contributed by: Editors |
My soul...neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open, far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence
Source: Is my soul asleep?
Category: Nature
Author: Antonio Machado
Contributed by: Editors |
The mantle of a golden evening had fallen on South America
Source: Night Flight
Category: Nature
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Contributed by: Editors |
There is an ocean of things for us to talk about and arrange
Source: The Token
Category: Nature
Author: Joseph Hergesheimer
Contributed by: Editors |
The fog comes in on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on
Source: Fog
Category: Nature
Author: Carl Sandburg
Contributed by: Editors |
Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors which it passes to a row of ancient trees
Source: Sunset
Category: Nature
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Contributed by: Editors |
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding -
Riding - riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door
Source: The Highwayman
Category: Nature
Author: Alfred Noyes
Contributed by: Jim Stegall |
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach
Source: Spanish Gypsy
Category: Nature
Author: George Eliot
Contributed by: Jim Stegall |
Come see the north wind's masonry
Source: The Snow-Storm
Category: Nature
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contributed by: Jim Stegall |
The river breeze - Out in a thin russet kimono - On a summer evening
Source: Yasunari Kawabata's Beauty and Sadness
Category: Nature
Author: Basho
Contributed by: Jim Stegall |
