I Am A Word Uttered By Nature

An original oil painting by Sandra Jane, created with professional-quality oil paints on stretched canvas.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2017
Dimensions: 38 × 76 cm (unframed)

I am a word uttered by nature,
Then taken back
And hidden in her heart
And a second time uttered.
I am a star fallen from the blue sky
Upon a green carpet

I am a daughter of the elements:
Carried in winter,
Born of spring,
Reared by summer;
And autumn lays me to rest

I am a gift to lovers
And a nuptial crown.
I am the last offering of the quick to the dead.

With morning’s coming
I and the breeze together
Proclaim the light.
At even, the birds and I bid it farewell.

I sway upon the plains
And adorn them.
I breathe my fragrance to the air.
I embrace slumber
And the manifold eyes of night look long upon me.
I seek awakening to look on the single eye of day.

I drink of the dew’s intoxication
And hearken to the blackbird’s song.
I dance to the rhythm of the grasses shouting;
I look ever heavenward to see the light,
Not to behold therein my image,
This is a wisdom man has not yet learned.

From ‘Song of the Flower’
Poetry Book “A Tear and a Smile”
Kahlil Gibran

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