Stillness isn’t the absence of noise. It’s the absence of resistance. Thomas Merton

no now in the field — only almost and not-yet breathing between gone and coming stillness isn’t still; it moves so close it feels like rest

Happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. E.L. Konigsburg

time of reflection four o’clock light and shadow…

trying to see things like it’s the very first time

. “Waiting is a simple flower. It sprouts on the edges of time.” ― Christian Bobin . 🩶

" " Infiniment plus que tout " : c'est le nom enfantin de l'amour, son petit nom, son nom secret. " Christian Bobin Ma 📷

We are only made of a single piece by the chance of a voice which calls us by loving us ~ Christian Bobin Foto: Jerry Zechariah

"Poetry is a sort of homecoming." Paul Celan 📷Milie Del

love affair with the scent of spring a robin's song Chen-ou Liu https://t.co/2XHxIoI6X1 #loveaffair #relationship #haiku #poetry #micropoetry #poem morning walk i fill my lungs with birdsong Caroline Skanne https://t.co/KQPvjVeOZS #birdsong #stroll #haiku #poetry #poem

Passing scenes in Sutherland

Touch of Melancholy

. “Where I forgot myself in you, you became thought. Something rushes through us both: the first of the world’s last wings.” ― Paul Celan . Petri Rämö photography

Gorgeous Glen Coe, Highlands, Scotland, Kenneth Muir!💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Oh, it's the beginning of a poem: a poem comes and sits beside me while I wait for the sun, to set for the sun, to rise Bhawana Rathore https://t.co/9BCWTO1XxJ #writing #sunrise #sunset #tanka #poetry #micropoetry #poem

“Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future.” ~ C. S. Lewis, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑒𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑦 · © Michaela Julia

grace towards self is crucial for releasing the parts of you that died trying

Poppy with a skipper 🦋

‘We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it.’ George Eliot - Adam Bede, 1859 Hengki Koentjoro

. “Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eyes, In every gesture dignity and love.” ― John Milton . ‘Soir’ by Gabriel Ferrier, c. 1911