“If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.”
CHINESE PROVERB
Painting: Vintage Chinese silk painting for sale on Etsy.
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SPRING HAIKU
by Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694)
Spring, too, very soon!
They are setting the scene for it –
plum tree and moon.
Illustration: “Plum Tree and Moon” (Chinese ink/watercolor on xuan paper) by Lisa Chakrabarti, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
RACHEL CARSON, Silent Spring
Illustration: “Flycatcher and plum” (ink and watercolor on hosho washi) by Lisa Chakrabarti. Visit Lisa’s website CloudDragonArt.com to learn more about this L.A.-based artist.
“If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.”
CHINESE PROVERB
Painting: Vintage Chinese silk painting for sale on Etsy.
THE OAK AND THE ROSE
by Shel Silverstein
An oak tree and a rosebush grew,
Young and green together,
Talking the talk of growing things —
Wind and water and weather.
And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed
The oak tree grew so high
That now it spoke of newer things —
Eagles, mountain peaks and sky.
“I guess you think you’re pretty great,”
The rose was heard to cry,
Screaming as loud as it possibly could
To the treetop in the sky.
“And now you have no time for flower talk,
Now that you’ve grown so tall.”
“It’s not so much that I’ve grown,” said the tree,
“It’s just that you’ve stayed so small.”
Painting: “Two Gibbons in an Oak Tree” by Yi Yuanji (1000-1064)
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”
RACHEL CARSON, Silent Spring
Illustration: “Flycatcher and plum” (ink and watercolor on hosho washi) by Lisa Chakrabarti. Visit Lisa’s website CloudDragonArt.com to learn more about this amazing, gifted L.A.-based artist.
SPRING Poem by Matsuo Bashō (1644-1694)
Spring, too, very soon!
They are setting the scene for it —
plum tree and moon.
Illustration: “Plum Tree and Moon” (Chinese ink/watercolor on xuan paper) by Lisa Chakrabarti, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
“If I keep a green bough in my heart, then the singing bird will come.”
CHINESE PROVERB
Painting: Vintage Chinese silk painting for sale on Etsy.
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