Audience: General
Language: English
Faith in the Earth: Conversations with trees and inner landscapes
48 selected poems through the year, with illustrations of drawings by Vincent van Gogh
Helmut Raimund, an Austrian, lives in Aberdeen, Scotland.
In the rhythm and sound of these poems, I encounter myself within the beings of streams, flowers, landscapes and trees. They speak with tongues transcending human language. They are present in imaginations, inspiring me to search for my own Spirit Self, showing me what’s mine in their memories, traversing times.
Not only do we share cosmic memory and conscience; In nature and in human beings a common heart is beating, stirred by the love of the universe, embodied in the earth and her creatures, evoking the spirit core in every human being. Nature is a mirror and caretaker for the human soul, reminding us, that our deeds and thoughts can deplete or enhance its life forces. Love is the bread of the earth.
Earth, seed of cosmic light,
Fallen into gravity,
I followed you
That we arise.
Poems
A New Year’s Prayer.
The Trees Donations on Three Kings Day.
The Angel of the Sense of Touch.
Hands on Mountains High.
Crocuses. Candlemas Song.
Angel of Life.
I am the doorway.
Early Spring Leaves.
Christ my Companion.
The Daffodils Winged Trumpets.
The Open Cathedral at the Foothills of Bennachie.
April Blessing.
The Golden Kettle.
Sonnet of Prayer.
Metamorphosis.
Walk on Ascension Day.
Song on Mary’s Epiphany.
Well at Whitsun.
Ash of Dunkeld.
Blossoms in the Summer Wind.
Dreams on Skye.
Dogrose at St. John’s Day.
Teachings of the Wise Man from the Apple Tree.
The Beech Tree in Silverdale.
Simpli city.
Faith in the Earth.
The Beekeeper.
I found myself.
Scots Pine.
Sonnet on the tree of life.
Deeside Lord.
Angel of Seeing.
Old Apple Tree.
Earth, Being in My Likeness.
The Angel of Taste.
Late Autumn Day over Drum Castle.
Autumn Biking.
The Angel and the Autumn Birch.
The necessity of emptiness.
Clarity in November.
Saint Martin Summer.
Autumn Breaks the Ashes Leaves.
Young Ash at a Starless November Night.
Encounter at the Oak in Advent.
Mother Earth, She Shakes Her Linen.
Dancing Elms of Aberdeen in December.
The Mountain Birches at Loch Muick.