Magnolia tree
Attracting me,
Gladly blooming.
Nothing to prove
Only to bloom profusely,
Lovely you are with your pink hues.
Imbuing all with joy at Spring’s arrival
Annulling all the hardship of the winter past.
How lovely it was in High Park today. Sheer beauty! The magnolia’s time for blooming has come and irregardless of who’s watching or what anyone’s saying, she’s mesmerizing to everyone. Photographers are there trying to capture her beauty from all angles and positions. Some are taking microcosmic views and others macrocosmic ones. She knows how to be both beautiful and still.
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their functions and make no claim. (Lao-Tzu)
Spring – a good time to revel in Nature’s gift of flowers to us in May. Maybe the magnolia tree has something more to teach us as well. Perhaps, it’s time to get into another mode of living and being now that the long winter is just a memory. Maybe we can be content to do less and just take the time to “be.” It’s not easy – for me, anyways. Advertising, marketing, and social media, are all calling for us to be more, have more, and do more. The magnolia tree was a call to me to challenge myself with “less is more.” I’m trying to learn something from all the beauty portrayed and the joy I received at no cost by this beautiful tree. “Part of what it means to be, is to be beautiful. Beauty is not superadded to things: it is one of the springs of their reality. It is not that which effects a luscious response in perceivers; it is the interior geometry of things, making them perceptible as forms.“ (John O`Donohue)
Hope you enjoyed all the collages and my acrostic poem as well. Enjoy your Spring and savor all of Nature`s beauty.