Monday, April 2, 2012

the smallest sprout

To celebrate spring, I put together a brief nature photo essay from my weekend in the woods, with borrowed snippets from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and some music if you like.



I exist as I am, that is enough
If no other in the world be aware I sit content
And if each and all be aware I sit content










One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself








And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten million years
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait
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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands...
I guess it must be the flag of my disposition
out of hopeful green stuff woven









And now it seems to me the beautiful uncut hair of graves








What do you think has become of the young and old men?


And what do you think has become of the women and children?










They are alive and well somewhere
The smallest sprout shows there is really no death









And if ever there was it led forward life and does not wait at the end to arrest it
And ceas'd the moment life appear'd









All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses
And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier

2 comments:

  1. This is beautiful :) thank you.

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