Heaven in our Souls

“After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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early misty morning

trees looming through grayness

mountain majesty cloaked in drabness

the beauty hidden

the ground sodden as the rains soaked into

the thirsty soil

then a sliver

just

of light

and the clouds break open to

azure blue

fleeing the coming sun

the grass sparkles with silvery

points of grace

and the ground steams

as I step lightly into the world

with heaven in my soul