Last Day of May....

 Last day of May and everything is new and fresh and beautiful.............

 WORLD FOREVER NEW by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

 Consider that the perpetual admonition of Nature to us is, the WORLD is  new, untried.

 Do not believe in the past. I give you the universe NEW and UNHANDLED every hour.

 You think in your idle hours that there is LITERATURE, history, science behind you....

 SO accumulated as to exhaust  thought and prescribe your own future and THE FUTURE.

 In your SANE  hour you shall see that not a line has yet been written;

 that for all the poetry that is in the world....

 your first sensation on entering a wood....

 or standing  the shore of a lake 

 has NOT been chanted yet...

 It remains for you........

 so does all thought...........

 all object, ALL LIFE remain unwritten still.

 Photographs 2017   Emerson piece from "1000 Beautiful Things" (1948, Peoples Book Club) (My favourite book of poetry and prose....)