Exploring Happiness #9- Green Things Poem by June Stepansky

Exploring Happiness #9- Green Things



There were always
green things in my life:
small wild flowers,
Lilac bushes,
arboretums
where lovers walked
and children came to play,
forests edging round a lake
where we would go on Sundays.

And loving so these wild things,
I planted in my yard a forest too,
which now, full grown,
repays me
with its healing.

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Observing and participating in nature helps us in many ways. We are thrilled by its beauty, awed by its power, and humbled by its tranquility. It provides us with a closeness to eternal values and a better understanding of our human place in the universe.
It has inspired poets, writers and artists to produce works which have enriched all our lives.
When life’s problems become too difficult, we can be grateful that it is always possible to escape to nature and benefit from its comfort and its healing.
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See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.
Socrates

Nature has been for me, for as long as I can remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure and delight: a home, a teacher, a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
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