Leaves of Prayer: Leaves of Hope: Leaves of Love

28th November 2007, Leaves of Prayer: Leaves of Hope: Leaves of Love

The platanus leaves beyond my window are moving, moving as if in prayer.

It is strange how the lightest of breezes send them spinning, bowing, nodding their green heads and form. And i am thinking, how they resemble, en mass the bowing heads of Jews reading their Torah or Muslims reading their Koran, and I cannot get away from this supicion that they are moved by the spirit > The wind that moves over the water, and, I know I am not the first to have made such connections between the spirit, and the manifestations of God and his, her movements in leaves and wind before me.

Sappho the Greek poet had spoken of a kind of love that moves the leaves of an oak tree. I had also read in Wikipedia that "in Trabzon (Turkish) folklore, the swinging of tree branches and leaves symbolised worship" and so, Sappho appears to me, to have been connecting an early Greek/Turkish belief with that of her love for her lover. And perhaps, here too, Sappho-like, my suspicion of the spiritual moving before me is also tied to my dreams, wishes and hopes for a life lived in love, and the beauty of the world before, around, and even within me.