Poems of Perspective: New World and The Reflection Poem - by Shel Silverstein

                                                                New World

                                               Upside-down trees swingin' free,
                                               Busses float and buildings dangle:
                                               Now and then it’s nice to see
                                               The world– – from a different angle.

Reflection in puddle in Zion National Park, Utah. Photo by Caroline Carson

                                                       The Reflection Poem

                                              Each time I see the Upside-Down Man
                                              Standing in the water,
                                              I look at him and start to laugh,
                                              Although I shouldn't oughtter.
                                              For maybe in another world
                                              Another time
                                              Another town,
                                              Maybe HE is right side up
                                              And I am upside down. ~ by Shel Silverstein, (1930-1999) 

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light,

The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half light,

I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams;

I have spread my dreams under your feet;

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

~ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Zion Canyon, a photo I took on a stormy day in October 2012