Tuesday 26 June 2012

Dew Drops

As the sun rose, a dew drop became aware of its surroundings. There it sat on a leaf, catching the sunlight and throwing it back out.
Ah, it was good to be a dew drop.

The wind rose and the plant began to shake, tipping the leaf. Terror gripped the dew drop as gravity pulled it towards the edge of the leaf, towards the unknown. Why? Why was this happening? Things were comfortable. Things were safe. Why did they have to change? Why? Why?

The dew drop reached the edge of the leaf. It was terrified, certain that it would be smashed into a thousand pieces below, sure that this was the end. The day had only just begun and the end had come so quickly. It seemed so unfair. It seemed so meaningless. It tried desperately to do whatever it could to cling to the leaf, but it was no use.

Finally, it let go, surrendering to the pull of gravity. Down, down it fell. Below there seemed to be a mirror. A reflection of itself seemed to be coming up to meet the dew drop. Closer and closer they came together until finally...

And then the fear transformed into deep joy as the tiny dew drop merged with the vastness that was the pond. Now the dew drop was no more, but it was not destroyed.

It had become one with the whole






Dew Quotes:-
I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)


What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. (Quote by - Robert Browning)



Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)



Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)



And every dew-drop paints a bow. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)



The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield)



Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)



Tis- of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy. (Quote by - (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)



I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. (Quote by - John Ford)



I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)



Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven. (Quote by - Lu Yu)



Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve! (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)



In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

 
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing, we divine; our life has a sister ship, following quietly another route. While the sun blazes behind the islands.
--Tomas Transtromer

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

--Samuel Daniel


But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

--George Byron


Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.

--Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

--Letitia Elizabeth Landon


Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

--Samuel Butler


I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.

--John Ford
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
--Marshall McLuhan

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

--Khalil Gibran


Its liquor is like the sweetest dew from Heaven.

--Lu Yu


Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

--Jean Paul


Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

--Rabindranath Tagore


Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down.

--Ethel Waters


The dew of compassion is a tear.

--Lord Byron


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