Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

O land I love you green



O land I love you green

Green

an apple dancing in water and light

Green

your night green, your dawn green

so plant me with the tenderness of a mother’s hand

in a handful of air

I am one of your seeds 

Green …

The Dice Player, Mahmoud Darwish
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Mural,  Translated by John Berger and Rema Hammami, Verso, musique by Trio Joubran

plants



Plants awaken the aesthetic feeling within us, soften our murderous tendencies, inspire us to poetry, and thus nurture our hearts and minds.


Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, 2002. Geography of human life. Caddo Gap Press .