Holy Place

[sasha]

a sound
wind
soft, whispering
the trees

sun
warm & bright
then dim - cool
clouds

nearby, fluttering
a chickadee lands
for a closer look

eye to eye
a holy moment

pond
alive with noise
buzzing, trilling
dragonflies
red-wing blackbird
peepers

i am unnoticed
a holy moment

motion
milk snake
emerges, vanishes
now only grass

a rare glimpse
a holy moment

forest
needles, windfall
Canada mayflowers
wood thrush
ovnenbird
jays
so many holy moments
in this holy place

[mnaz]

I've seen,
heard, felt,
holy moments
on hillsides,
mountainsides,
like wind through
creaking pines,
(a sound like a river),
like the cactus wren
on her saguaro perch,
who let me approach her,
like holy ringing silence
out in the big empty.

[stilltrucking]

"a good capture" dadio

the holy land is disapearing undertheir feet, jack neal and the us beatniks, in the now generation™

First I knew about the place came to me when I was sitting under the dinning room table in a house that used to stand in fells point in 1943
best way I know to keeep the feeling is to
k eep my expectcations lower than my gratude for life
iheardthat in a song from the republic of pleasure so it can't bewrong

And the days that I keep my gratitude
Higher than my expectations
Ah! Well, I have really good days

RWH

[saw]

I know this intimately ....

it comes when we humans don't make a sound
we just marvel at what is around us
it comes when we become one with nature
and I swear there are birds and animals
that are not afraid of the quiet man
the man who sits on a rock to feel the sun on his face
those holy moments of connection to the earth

[sasha]

Thanks, all - it's as close to prayer as I come. Not exactly what I was taught in Catechism, but a whole lot more fulfilling.