BUTTERFLIES / БАБОЧКИ

Butterflies may look for an ordinary eye something trivial and insignificant, but in a deeper view of the soul they are truly unique beings. So dainty and delicate, so graceful and elegant, having such amazing colours and designs! Moreover, they are winged creatures and can fly, can flitter freely, as if dancing with all their beauty in the breezes, so airy and light. Wings are a special symbol: they embody the age-long dream of humanity of flight which in a deeper truth is the dream of freedom, of absolute liberty with no bonds or limits. So for the soul’s eyes the airy and marvelous freely flittering butterflies appear the symbol of the soul’s freedom, of its free termless flight with no care or trouble in the eternal summer of light and beauty and happiness and liberty, the all-blissful and all-free beings of paradise. They as if embody all these priceless paradisal qualities for which the soul in us yearns since the beginning of Time.
It is in this deeper view that many of the photographs of butterflies are presented here. Many photo-poetic works also attempt to reveal another states and dimensions of consciousness and being that may exist unnoticed near us and parallel with us — or in our own microcosm — or, perhaps, our macrocosm? — for in a deeper view they prove to be one, and this All-Oneness of Being is the main theme of my creativity. It is presented through the insights into some inner realities of the World-Being in the symbolic World of Butterflies. Please, read the poems below the photos.

Amid the Happy Blossom - Euploea klugii butterfly / В счастливом цветнике

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Amid the Happy Blossom - Euploea klugii butterfly / В счастливом цветнике

Danaus Euploea klugii Moore, 1857. Nymphalidae fam. Eng. — King Crow.
Данаида Euploea klugii Moore, 1857. Сем. Нимфалиды (Nymphalidae). Англ. — King Crow — «королевский ворон».

Photo location: Gardens of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, surroundings of Pondicherry (india)
Место сьемки: Сады Ашрама Шри Ауробиндо, окрестности г. Пондичерри (Индия)

Смотрите мое стихотворение к фото на русском после стихотворения на английском.

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THE WORLD OF BUTTERFLIES

Mid flowers so sweet
To flitter so free:
The summer’s endless mead
Grants termless liberty—

On the soft petals’ bed
To drink the fragrance deep
And soar and soar ahead
The honey-vast to sip—

To chant the spires awing
Amid the boundless bloom
In the sun-hymns that sing
To nourish and illume…

Awhirl on the warm winds
Just glide and dance at ease,
Just fill your airy wings
With love and light and bliss—

In the balm-currents reel
Of the soft-scented breeze
With sheer delight to feel
The blossoms’ waiting kiss…

The world of free delight…
The life of blissful ease…
The ether-space of light…
The honeyed tenderness…

And everywhere’s flight,
And everywhere’s love—
The world of wings so light,
No bond, no chain, no gyve—

The garden-world in blow—
The blooming paradise…
And everywhere’s love…
The world of butterflies…

There shall come, I know,
The blissful day at last:
The happiness so slow
Shall find even us!

We’ll soar! We’ll flitter free
Under no yoke or sway
In the sweet liberty!—
The butterflies at play…

Ritam

More of my poems on my literary site
http://www.savitri.su

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МИР МОТЫЛЬКОВ

В сладких цветах
Вольно порхать,
В нежных перстах
Их отдыхать…

В кущах отрад
Реять, парить —
Пить аромат,
Негу их пить…

В цвете садов
Взлётами петь —
Лета миров
Не облететь!..

В танце плыви
В вихрях тепла,
Смехом любви
Полни крыла…

В сладости струй
Нежных ветров
Чуй поцелуй
Ждущих цветов…

Сладостный мир…
Жизнь без хлопот…
Солнца эфир…
Нежности мед…

Всюду — полет,
Всюду — любовь —
В мире свобод
Вечная новь…

Светлая новь
Юных садов…
Всюду — любовь…
Мир мотыльков…

Верю, придет
Сладостный час:
Счастье найдет
Все же и нас! —

Взмоем! Вспорхнем! —
Вольны, легки,
Жить мы начнем
Как мотыльки...

Ритам

Мои другие стихи – на моем литературном сайте
http://www.savitri.su

web-version of the photo for free downloading:
веб-версия фото для бесплатного скачивания:
http://macroclub.ru/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=221354&nocache=1