The alphabet of nature And Other Poems

By Domina Petric

The alphabet of nature

Agate caught the rainbow in its memory.
Beryl hid its heart at the bottom of a lake.
Carnelian is as sweet as honey.
Citrine is the sun that illuminates Earth at noon.
Charoite is a picture of a stormy sky and a setting sun.
The winter landscape is sprinkled with Diamonds: snow, frost and hoarfrost.
Elbaite is as tender as roses in the garden of youth.
Fluorite summons flowers like Pan´s flute: a multitude of colors and decorations.
Garnet is a red wine, black grapes and a drop of blood.
Hauyne is a blue shooting star.
Iolite smells like violets in early spring.
Jade is the master of colors: green apple, lavender, red rose, blue sea.
Jasper is a fertile soil, colorful life on Earth.
Larimar is the sunlight refracting on the sea waves.
Malachite is the sound of trees and the song of forest birds.
Neptunite is the darkness of caves and sea depths. 
Opal is a supernova, the birth of a new galaxy.
Psilomelane is counting years of the oldest tree of Eden.
Ruby is the suffering of an unrequited love.
Sapphire is the wisdom of the sea, the virtue of lakes and the power of rivers.
Turquoise is the smile of a blue sky, freshness of the dawn.
Utahlite is a lonely glade, a shepherd´s song.
Violane, the best violinist of the blue-purple orchestra.
Zultanite is a capricious stormy sky.

Blue vampires

Blue vampires roam the Universe:
stars huge and dark,
by sucking life of their sisters,
they stay forever young.

Forever they are young, these beauties,
with long teeth and dangerous intentions,
when they pick the star
that will die in dream.

The Universe is full of them,
and world admires the starry sky
not surmising that one star
is devoured by a giant, beautiful and infinitely blue.

Tonight, I will dream about blue vampires,
mermaids among stars,
clothed with dark gravity
and sumptuous helium of their sister-stars.

Desert

I am overwhelmed
with shades of yellow,
in the desert.

It is my fault,
I went where I should not have,
from where there is no return,
in the desert.

There is no green tree, anywhere,
nor the blue sea,
only the mirage,
on the endless road.

My soul is restless,
and on my way
through the Yellow 
nothing is happening.

In the desert,
I am overwhelmed
with shades of yellow.

I had a dream…

White dream:
Purity of mind,
Peacefulness of soul.
My mind is resting.

Blue dream:
Calmness of the bright blue sky and
Serenity of existence in the endless blue.

Yellow dream:
I felt happiness and optimism,
Enlightened with sunshine of creativity.
Is this a spring of my life?

Green dream:
Hope is renewed from the suffering,
the being is reborn in the power of green.
A new day begins.

Wake up!

Nature

Duality of Nature
Duality of Humanity
Dark and Light
Good and Evil
Black and White
Love and Hatred
Eros and Thanatos
From the very beginning
until the end of
Time and Space
existed and will exist
in the beautiful agony of
Existence!
One Eternity gives birth to another,
from the destruction of contradiction,
the perfection is born that will last
Forever!

Song without a name

I am just a song without a name,
here, in Croatia, where all totalitarian regimes meet,
against people, against peace, against love.
Communism, fascism, Nazism, corruption, nothing but evil,
all of them together, cause our small world to collapse.
I am nothing but a number, song without a name,
fading in the dark of endless crimes,
crimes, whose perpetrators are not punished.
Victims are punished over and over again,
revictimized again and again,
until our song fades in the dark.

I am just a song without a name,
crying for justice,
for peace,
for love,
fading in the dark.

I am just a song without a name...

Domina Petric (Petrić) is a 33-year old medical doctor from Split, Croatia. She is also a classical music composer and a novice photographer. She loves science as much as art and she has also been engaged in writing poetry.