Love of Nature
If you ask people if they love nature, many will say, “yes”. However the question is how to express this love. I found a solution – to write a poem.
What does it mean to love nature?
How do you feel knowing
that the trees were planted especially for you?
And what about the beauty of the forest
and the meadow where you walk barefoot?
And the birds that sing in the morning?
And the smell of blossoming spring flowers?
Consider the lakes and rivers, and mighty oceans,
and the fish, the water lilies, and the seashells.
All of these were created
especially for your pleasure and enjoyment,
to give you the opportunity
to love nature
and to share yourself with it.
This is one of the poems in my new photo-poetry book, “42 Encounters with Love” which you can buy for yourself or as a gift.
These three images are from the nature we encountered at the end of last December, during our visit to Portland, Oregon.
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