I love the Night


Running at the beach

Running at the beach

Dusk at the beach

Dusk at the beach

Photograph taken and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio  2009

Sunset at Livingston Lake

Sunset at Livingston Lake, Tx.

Photograph taken and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2004

Sunset at Lake Erie

Sunset at Lake Erie

Photograph taken and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2008

Leaf taken on a full moon in NC with just mountain moon light

Leaf taken on a full moon in NC with just mountain moon light

Photograph taken in Black Mountain, NC and copyrighted 2002

So since I wrote a pretty intense blog earlier, I thought I would give you some beauty to look at. It is important to have balance in our lives. I hope you enjoy.

The Night Dances


Gathering flowers

gathering of the flowers

” A smile fell in the grass.
Irretrievable!

And how will your night dances
Lose themselves. In mathematics?

Such pure leaps and spirals—-
Surely they travel

The world forever, I shall not entirely
Sit emptied of beauties, the gift

Of your small breath, the drenched grass
Smell of your sleeps, lilies, lilies.

Their flesh bears no relation.
Cold folds of ego, the calla,

And the tiger, embellishing itself——-
Spots, and a spread of hot petals.

The coments
Have such a space to cross,

Such coldness, forgetfulness
So your gestures flake off——

Warm and human, then their pink light
Bleeding and peeling
Through the black amnesias of heaven
Why am I given

These lamps, these planets
Falling like blessings, like flakes

Six-sided, white
On my eyes, my lips, my hair

Touching and melting/
Nowhere.
—–Sylvia Plath

I have always been a night person, night owl of the lyrics. My mind rushes with ideas, my eyes filled with the heavenly lights, the moon, stars, planets and the shooting stars. Alone with the Divine lights and my soul. I meditate, paint, read, and write. The night makes my heart free. Ah, and then the morning. Not my time to function. My body is heavy and my mind vague and fuzzy. I really love to awaken slowly with a stretch of limbs to open my heart and soul to the love that fills me. I am seldom understood. But what can I say, the night dances.

Comet dances in the night

Comet dances in the night