Raindrops, taken with a special digital camera just after a rain shower.
[photographer unknown]
I am dotted silver threads dropped from heaven
By the gods. Nature then takes me, to adorn
Her fields and valleys.
I am beautiful pearls, plucked from the
Crown of Ishtar by the daughter of Dawn
To embellish the gardens.
When I cry the hills laugh;
When I humble myself the flowers rejoice;
When I bow, all things are elated.
The field and the cloud are lovers
And between them
I am a messenger of mercy.
[Excerpted from “Song of the Rain VII,” by Khalil Gibran]
Susannah Hay 