Bits Of Inspiration ~ Spirit Nature

UPDATE:  I'm going to use the first haiku in this series that I did for another prompt [vide infra] as my WALL entry for CD.

Kristjaan gives us two quotes on WALLS from Kalil Gibran

[...] "After all this is not a bad prison; but I do not like this wall between my cell and the next prisoner’s cell; Yet I assure you that I do not wish to reproach the warder not the Builder of the prison".[...] 

[...] "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens". [...]

Kristjaan then presents us with a wonderful positive example.  Mine is a bit darker

tearing down the walls

giving room to wild flowers

to color the earth

 © Chèvrefeuille

  
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On our visit to the garden today, Suzie Clevenger asks us to "stop, breathe, and focus on things that are positive."  She has chosen some Native American aphorisms for our consideration and inspiration.

 I found the inspiration, but, alas, have not succeeded in focusing on the positive.

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"We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky." – Shawnee

all men are brothers

living in the same tepee ~

big family fight

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"The soul would have no rainbow if the eye had no tears." - Tribe Unknown

from deepest valley

the far away mountain tops

appear the highest

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"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." - Tribe Unknown

my wisdom is best

hear it from my silver tongue

why don't you listen

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"To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature." - Oglala Sioux

i have touched the earth

with my bulldozer and crane

one more shopping mall

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"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives." – Sioux

This one brings to mind Matsuo Basho's famous haiku

the old pond ~

a frog jumps in
sound of water

but still ----

moose goose and mankind

two find forest harmony

one soils his own nest

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Carpe Diem #543, Wall