God's eyes are painting fields again

 

The sun's eyes are painting fields again.

 Its lashes with expert strokes

Are sweeping across the land

 A great palette of light has embraced

This earth . . .

God's eyes are painting fields again . . .

Hafiz

14th century

I am because You look at me . . .

Life eternal is nothing other than that blessed regard

with which You never cease

most lovingly to behold me . . .

With You, to behold is to give life . . .

 Feed me with Your gaze, O Lord . . .

For with You to see is to cause.

Nicholas of Cusa

15th century

To sit and look at light-filled leaves

May let us see, or seem to see . . .

Time when the Maker's radiant sight

Made radiant every thing He saw,

And every thing He saw was filled

With perfect joy and life and light.

Wendell Berry

Photo:  Feathery Mountain-mahogany seeds glow silver in last light, Lory State Park, CO, February 21, 2012