Don’t let them pull you down
the cold ones and the crazy ones
the twisted politicians and the elephantine pundits
Soar away often from all their heavy patterns
concrete symbols and fixed rituals
and fly free as if you have wings
Then you’ll be beautifully glowing and warmly radiant
and (as you feel) the pulling weight of their dead images leave
be free of the burdensome gravity of their self-importance
Beyond their weighty burden (1) Photo by Thomas Peace c.2015
Beyond their weighty burden (2) Photo by Thomas Peace c.2015
My Blog primarily consists of close-up nature photos (that I've taken locally) combined with original holistic-truth oriented prose and/or poetry involving mindfulness/awareness. I love nature and I love understanding the whole (not merely the parts and the details). I'm a retired teacher of the multiply handicapped.
I have a number of interesting hobbies, such as fossil collecting, sport-kite flying, 3D and 2D close-up photography, holography, and pets. Most of all, I am into holistic self-awareness, spontaneous insight, unconventional observation/direct perception, mindfulness, meditation, world peace, non-fragmentation, population control, vegetarianism, and green energy.
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Great work…really love number two, Tom.
Thank you, Dan! That second one looks somewhat like a computer chip board.
lovely work:)
Thanks very much, Leyla! 🙂
Reblogged this on The Town Square Cafe.
Very much appreciated, Jean! 🙂
Love this.
Good! 🙂
monkey like how tom capture metallic sheen of fly + monkey agree 100 % with word of tom.
Monkey more intelligent/perceptive than a lot of humans! 🙂
Brilliant photo Tom, and a great verse to go with it!
Thank you much! I probably burst the balloon of a politician or two! 🙂
Now that would be good!!!!!! 🙂
The photo is incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing you wisdom, Tom. 🙂
Thank you, Amy! As Walt Whitman suggested… it takes wisdom to perceive wisdom. 🙂
thanks from me, too, for sharing your wisdom, Thomas and thanks for this beautiful photo, have a nice week-end, regards Mitza
Thank you much, Mitza! I hope that that mineral fair was awesome! I bet it was! 🙂
Thanks, Thomas for asking, it was great and I could have spent 3 days there, but unfortunately I didn’t have so much time, but saw quite a lot of wonderful things. Have a nice weekend, Thomas, kind regards Mitza
I really like your poem. 🙂
And the effect on the second photo is stunning 🙂
Thanks 4 both! I like both 2! 🙂 (Sometimes I get something, myself, out of the poems and photos. It is weird sometimes to come away with something learned from what you yourself have written/done.)
haha But nice though. 🙂
Great pictures Tom love the detail and color of the first one.
brings out the
bug in me 🙂
The green against the red is striking. Very interesting effect on #2.