We Peeked - Lake Rabun

Lake Rabun, Clayton,Georgia

The Forest and You ---- featured poem - LOST...... by David Wagoner

LOST

Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you.
If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree of a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest know
Where you are. You must let it find you.

- David Wagoner

Hemlock Tree Branch - North Georgia - 2014 October 26

for the love of light & a touch of Langston Hugs

"Earth dust
Cloud dust
Storm dust
And splinters of hail
One handful of dream - dust.
Not for sale.

Langston Hughes

Wordless Wednesday - Pottery For Sale

a fetching place to be.

Spotted Newt in the Rain in Vermont