The current that with gentle murmur glides

cloudbird, 2012   ©fourteenth

The current that with gentle murmur glides ~ William Shakespeare

2013 New Year Birds : Happy New Year!

2013 New Year Birds   @fourteenth







 My Best to All for The New Year

an immense journey

underwater  ©fourteenth

“Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.”
Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature

Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus

tide ~  κύμα     ©fourteenth

τὰ πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει ~ Ήράκλειτος


Nothing endures but change ~ Heraclitus  

winter goldfish--χειμερινά χρυσόψαρα

winter goldfish--χειμερινά χρυσόψαρα  ©fourteenth

winter goldfish slip on redbrown mud
little trails of ocherlines left behind

smile! the new year's not too long away!

trees tug to rooted ground; sea sprayed wind
needles the eye lids tender

laugh! the time is just right.

we struggle, we balance, we can fly

birdnest  ©fourteenth

we struggle, we balance, we can fly

Let Earth and Sea and Air be still And Heaven itself: Plotinus

distant trail©fourteenth

Let Earth and Sea and Air be still



And Heaven itself.



And then let the Body think



Of the Spirit as streaming, pouring,



Rushing and shining into it from



All sides while it stands quiet.


Plotinus