I have chosen to share with you here a few of the haiku-poems written by Ray Andrews, a friend from Wales. They are lovely little poems, making our heart soft, provoking here a smile, there some tenderness, taking you gently to a place in yourself where silence abides. They are, as one of Ray’s little haikus read, like “Precious little remains On the pathway To the sun”. I have married them with the evanescent photographs of Nicki Gwynn-Jones. Let them both be like little bubbles of meditation in ourself…
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I gave my beloved
A wild rose
But did not realise
My heart would be the vase
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A teardrop
Fell slowly
In an ocean
Of joy
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Sometimes our hearts
Grow so much
They cease caring
Who the owner is
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When the lakes
Mirror surface is broken
No one in their right mind
Would try to repair it
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Waves break
On the shoreline of ourselves
Sighing with relief
Into the sand
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Enjoy many more of these poems and photographs… (READ MORE…)
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Bibliography:
– ‘Just Being One’ – by Ray Andrews (illustration by Anna Fraser) – (The Swirling Leaf Press)
– “In the Dreamtime: A Meditation on the Flowers of Orkney” – by Nicki Gwynn-Jones – (Orcadian Ltd)
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Nicki Gwynn-Jones is a British photographer currently living in Orkney, a group of islands north of Scotland. She has a passion photographing birds, and the coastal life around, full of a wilderness shaped by wind and water. In 2012 she was awarded a Fellowship in Visual Art by the Royal Photographic Society. 
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