Buddha Quote
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
“Buddha’s Hands” Lemon © 2010
Photo by
sorgorosso
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
“Buddha’s Hands” Lemon © 2010
Photo by
“Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.”
Out of lemon flowers
loosed
on the moonlight, love’s
lashed and insatiable
essences,
sodden with fragrance,
the lemon tree’s yellow
emerges,
the lemons
move down
from the tree’s planetarium
Delicate merchandise!
The harbors are big with it-
bazaars
for the light and the
barbarous gold.
We open
the halves
of a miracle,
and a clotting of acids
brims
into the starry
divisions:
creation’s
original juices,
irreducible, changeless,
alive:
so the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.
Cutting the lemon
the knife
leaves a little cathedral:
alcoves unguessed by the eye
that open acidulous glass
to the light; topazes
riding the droplets,
altars,
aromatic facades.
So, while the hand
holds the cut of the lemon,
half a world
on a trencher,
the gold of the universe
wells
to your touch:
a cup yellow
with miracles,
a breast and a nipple
perfuming the earth;
a flashing made fruitage,
the diminutive fire of a planet.
Italy © 2010
(fallen lemon)
“the fall was hard when I hit the ground
maybe
it is easier to be found and squeezed
this way…
I will trust that this
is meant to be.”
– L. K. Thayer
Italy © 2010
“Squeeze the juice out of every moment of every day. Let it be filled with delight, joy, love, and good humor.”
© 2010
Italy © 2010
“A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.”
– Saint Basil