Snow swan at Sapsucker Woods
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
A fleeting frosty filigree falls gentle from the infinite blackness that stretches from here to forever. A soft, white cover, providing protection to the temporal from the infinite.
The cold darkness wrings the last vestige of moisture from the clear night sky, as delicate white flakes float quietly to cover the dormant life below.
Many bare stalks and twigs litter the field, but at every black opening magic happens. Icy white forms feather into the darkness, searching and finding nirvana that is perfection.
Many seek, few find.
Looking down into the darkness, looking up into the darkness. The down darkness is mere punctuation in the expanse of whiteness. While the up darkness is the universe occasionally punctuated by lightness. Out there, how vast the dark, how little the light, yet our small part of the universe basks in the whiteness of awareness with at least an attempted understanding of its meaning. .
An icy rime seeks the darkness, drawn to the abyss, leaning in to take a brief glimpse. Almost turning its back to the outside world, knowing that there must be something in there, something profound waiting to be discovered. Looking at nothing, trying to see anything. The truly interesting occurs at the discontinuities, points differing from the norm, from the commonality. Seeing the above-normal within the normal makes one, well, abnormal.
Frozen Fog
Out of The Deepest Darkness
A Ribbon of Brightest Whiteness,
Rising Slowly From Its Creek Bed,
Driven By Morning Sunlight,
Is Caught By the Smallest Tree Twigs.
A Shapeless Frigid Mist of Dawn Time
To a Feather-Growing, Clinging Rime
Its Frozen Vapors Crystallizing
From a Brightening Sky Realizing,
A Reformation to a Greater Beauty,
Glorify the Rising Sun Its Final Duty.
2 comments:
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RDS- You never cease to amaze us
with your knowledge and inner beauty. This is a challenging
path that will definately add to
your inner self, and further
our amazement. Love, Pat and
Jeanne
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