WONDER. DREAMS. PAPER BOATS.;

PAPER BOATS ( 1913) Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) 

                                        Childhood wonder , dreams and the journey .

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream.

In big black letters I write my name on them, and the village where I live.

I hope that someone in some strange land will find them

And know who I am......

I load my little boats with shiuli flowers from our garden

(Shiuili :*Nycanthes arbor-tristis: fragrant night blooming Jasmine from south Asia)

I hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night...

I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky

and see the little clouds setting their white bulging sails.

I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to race with my boats!

When night comes I bury my face in my arms

And dream that my paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars.

The fairies of sleep are sailing in them

And the lading (*cargo) is their baskets full of dreams.........

"Clouds come floating into my sunset sky, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add colour to my sunset sky...." -Tagore

Photographs 2025.

  "Paper Boats" is from the "Crescent Moon" collection  1913 by Rabindranath Tagore ( in the public domain)

 

Collage

  "The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts."
                                                                                              (George Meredith)

           "My heart and I lie small upon the earth like a grain of throbbing sand." (Zitkala-Sa)

                        "Every cat in the area will come round to try out your new fitted cat flp.
 Your own cat will continue to climb onto the window ledge and demand
                                                                     that you get out of bed to let it in." (B. King)

                 "If I take the wings of the dawn, if  dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there they hand will hold of me." (Adapted from Psalm 39)

                   "The sea is calm tonight, the tide is full,the moon lies fair upon the straits,
       for the world, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams."            (Matthew Arnold)
                                  
                                               "Hitch your wagon to a star." Ralph Waldo Emerson)

        "The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal."
                                                                                                           (Compton MacKenzie)

                  "Cats could have ruled the Universe, but couldn't be bothered ." (P. Gray)

                       "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." (R. W. Emerson)

(Supermoon Aug 2014)

"Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star." (Willis Reed)

      "Among human beings a cat is merely a cat;                  
                            among cats a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle." (Karel Capek  1890-1938)

           "Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are." (Gretel Ehrlich)

                           

                 "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him...................." ( Voltaire)