Warm From Within
©2011 Mark Bottoms
LoveLove means to learn to look at yourself
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills.
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
Then he wants to use himself and things
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn't always understand.
The way one looks at distant things
For you are only one thing among many.
And whoever sees that way heals his heart,
Without knowing it, from various ills.
A bird and a tree say to him: Friend.
Then he wants to use himself and things
So that they stand in the glow of ripeness.
It doesn't matter whether he knows what he serves:
Who serves best doesn't always understand.
~ Czeslaw Milosz ~
(Collected Poems)
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About the Photographer'
Mark Bottoms Mark is an Air Traffic Controller living in Dothan, Alabama. Mark’s photography exhibits a sensitive eye, and a keen sense of composition and color. His images offer a sense of tranquility and peaceful beauty to all who have the opportunity to view them on Google+. I appreciate his letting me post one of his images here on The Angels Wear Fins. Thank you, Mark :)
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