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.

Free Flight - Papilio demoleus butterfly / Свободный полет - бабочка парусник демолей

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Free Flight - Papilio demoleus butterfly / Свободный полет - бабочка парусник демолей

Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758, Papilionidae fam. Eng. Lime butterfly.
Photo location: Gardens of Sri Aurobindo Ashram (surroundings of Pondicherry, India).

Лимонный парусник Демолей — Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758, сем. Парусники (Papilionidae). Англ. Lime butterfly — лаймовая бабочка.
Место сьемки: Сады Ашрама Шри Ауробиндо (окрестности г. Пондичерри, Индия).

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You’d be a butterfly?—
O, marvel-boon of God!
In the gold bloom’s delight
He drinks its nectar gold;
In summer vast he slips
Drunk with the sun-mirth wine,
Its blooming dreams he sips,
Its honey-scents divine;
In vistas with no bond
Just flittering at ease,
Amid the petals fond
He drinks the calm world-bliss…
In freedom with no reins
Just soar, just bathe your wings
In streams of golden rays
At play with joyful winds!—
O butterfly so free,
How sweet’s your liberty! ...
You’d be a butterfly?
Me too… Then let us fly?—

Ritam

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Ты стал бы мотыльком?..
О, чудный Божий дар! —
Пленен златым цветком,
Он пьет златой нектар;
Бескрайним летом пьян,
Он негу солнца пьет,
Цветущих грез дурман
И ароматов мед;
В раздолье без оков
Порхая без забот,
Средь нежных лепестков
Он мир счастливый пьет…
В свободе без границ
Взмывай, витай, ликуй
В златых лучах денниц,
В игре воздушных струй… —
Беспечна и легка
Свобода мотылька…
Ты стал бы мотыльком?..
Я — да!.. Летим вдвоем?..

Ритам

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