Lilies of the field —
what the world calls
doing nothing
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Sylvia Forges-Ryan
Sylvia Forges-Ryan recently received the International Azsacra Poetry Award from the Taj Mahal Journal in Allahabad, India which published her poems in December 2014. Also, she won Third Prize in the 2014 Robert Frost Poetry Contest. Her book, Take a Deep Breath: The Haiku Way to Inner Peace, which won an R. H. Blyth Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books in Haiku Literature from the World Haiku Review in 2013, was selected for permanent inclusion in the American Literature Collection of the Beinecke Library at Yale University.
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Lilies of the field —
what the world calls
doing nothing
—SYLVIA FORGES-RYAN
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This certainly continues to resonate with me.
Of course behind the scenes 'Nature' is always very busy, but it seems so effortless to humans who attempt to emulate, but fall so short.
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Thankfully some of us are happy to witness simplicity in the raw.
I like your poem!
my own backyard
I forget
to love it
Simply wonderful!
Works on so many levels.
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Lilies of the field —
what the world calls
doing nothing
—SYLVIA FORGES-RYAN
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This certainly continues to resonate with me.
Of course behind the scenes 'Nature' is always very busy, but it seems so effortless to humans who attempt to emulate, but fall so short.
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Thankfully some of us are happy to witness simplicity in the raw.
Alan
Wonderful is what I thought too, when I read this poem. Thank you
A moment in life when the world seems to come to standstill.
Ah, from the mists of memory I'm certain I studied this parable in an RE lesson many years ago.
I've just Googled it: Matthew 6:28 'Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin.'
Sometimes it's enough just to watch the flowers grow, isn't it.
Very effective, Sylvia.