An out-of-doors awakening

When your chips are down and life doesn’t seem worth living, take a trip out-of-doors.

Immerse yourself in Mother Nature. See, contemplate and marvel at her wonders.

Indeed, a breath of fresh air once in a while out-of-doors is good for you and you’ll be so glad that you did.

An Out-of-doors experience is not only useful to inspire poets but also beneficial to all man who longs for an awakening of his own soul.

Enjoy this poem while you’re contemplating your next visit out-of-doors.

A poem by Stromboli Smith.

“I climbed to the top of a mountain one day
To see the sun setting in glory,
And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray,
Of a perfectly splendid story.

'Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode
Till the strength of the beast was o'ertested;
Then the man would carry him miles on the road
Till Neddy was pretty well rested.

The moon rising solemnly over the crest
Of the hills to the east of my station
Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west
Like a visible new creation.

And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried)
Of an idle young woman who tarried
About a church-door for a look at the bride,
Although 'twas herself that was married.

To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand
Ideas--with thought and emotion.
I pity the dunces who don't understand
The speech of earth, heaven and ocean.”

God bless.