"Beauty is Truth - Truth Beauty..." John Keats, and thus our local Suffolk Bard of Woodbridge, the anglo irish genius Edward FitzGerald celebrated his intuitive understanding of the Oneness of Humanity in his masterpiece The Ruba'iya't of Omar khayya'm - an exquisite Interfaith poem celebrating all that is Good, True and Beautiful in the life of every human being.

So here are four poems Awakening and Celebrating the best in each of us as has been happily witnessed during this global pandemic - ENJOY !

SALUTATION OF THE DAWN

Listen to the Salutation of the Dawn

Look to this day!

For it is life, the very life of LIFE

In its brief course

Lie all the verities and realities of your existence

The bliss of growth

The glory of action

The splendour of Beauty

For yesterday is but a dream

And tomorrow only a vision

But today well lived makes every yesterday

a dream of happiness

and every tomorrow a vision of hope

Look well therefore to this day.

By Kalidasa of India 5th century

THE UNITY OF SPIRIT

The Unity of Spirit

IS

All the Rainbow's of all our Gardens

The Rainbow of the Sky

IS

The Rainbow of your eye,and

your hand over there

Or in mine...a long or little while

IS

The Rainbow of Conversation

IS

The Rainbow of Service

All Science & all Art

Whispering the Smile of Infinite Oneness

We are never - ever apart

By Charles Mugleston 2020 of Felixstowe

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his Beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the Peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the Presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the Grace of the world, and am free.

by the American poet Wendell Berry 20th century

LOVE

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;

No disease that enough love will not heal;

No door that enough love will not open;

No gulf that enough love will not bridge;

No wall that enough love will not throw down;

No sin that enough love will not redeem;

It makes no difference how deeply seated the trouble,

How hopeless the outlook,

How muddled the tangle,

How great the mistake

A sufficient realisation of love will dissolve it all

If only we could love enough, we would be the happiest and

most powerful beings in the world.

Emmet Fox American poet and writer 20th century

Wishing all the residents of Felixstowe and beyond a truly beautiful Christmas x