The small world

All things great and small, the good Lord made them all!  Even on a stormy evening, one can find beauty in the most mundane of creations around us.

Here is a simple blade of grass, in all its splendor.



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  1. PankajApril 29, 2020 at 6:20 PM

    Beautiful picture!

    Said a Blade of Grass
    BY KAHLIL GIBRAN

    Said a blade of grass
    to an autumn leaf,
    “You make such a noise falling!
    You scatter all my winter dreams.”

    Said the leaf indignant,
    “Low-born
    and low-dwelling!
    Songless, peevish thing!

    You live not
    in the upper air
    and you cannot tell
    the sound of singing.”

    Then the autumn leaf
    lay down
    upon the earth
    and slept.

    And when spring came
    she waked again—
    and she was
    a blade of grass.

    And when
    it was autumn
    and her winter sleep
    was upon her,

    and above her
    through all the air
    the leaves
    were falling,

    she muttered to herself,
    “O these autumn leaves!
    They make such noise!
    They scatter all my winter dreams.”

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    1. SrinivasApril 30, 2020 at 11:26 AM

      Pankaj, thank you very much for this most appropriate poem. Gibran captures those delicate, evocative, and sensitive thoughts like few others.

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