“It
isn’t the mountain ahead that wears you out; it’s the grain of sand in your
shoe.” — Robert W. Service
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“Faith
as tiny as a grain of sand allows us to move mountains”— Paulo Coelho
“In
the fury of the moment I can see the Master’s hand
In
every leaf that trembles in every grain of sand”— Bob Dylan
“Individually,
every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an
experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”— Raquel Cepeda,
Bird of Paradise: How I became Latina
Midweek Motif ~ A Grain of
Sand
I
read somewhere, “Sand is serious and entertaining”.
In
fact sands could be fascinating story tellers of the distant past.
In
1922, a famous necklace with a scarab beetle carved from a glowing,
yellow-green, gem-like material which could not be recognized at the time
discovered from Tutankhamun’s tomb, came to be known as a unique silica glass (28
million years old and 98% pure, from a particular part of the Libyan desert) in
the 1990’s.
There’s
a realm of fantasy under our feet when we walk on a beach. We are unaware how
the meiofauna there, are striving
hard to stop the beach going anoxic [starved of oxygen], in their home of a
grain of sand. For them only the sparkling shores have not yet turned into a
sticky, stinking mudflat.
A
single grain of sand matters in this grand scheme of our universe.
Let
A Grain of Sand find its way into
your lines today J
Auguries of Innocence
by
William Blake
To see
a World in a Grain of Sand
And a
Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold
Infinity in the palm of your hand
And
Eternity in an hour
A Robin
Red breast in a Cage
Puts
all Heaven in a Rage
A Dove
house filld with Doves & Pigeons
Shudders
Hell thr' all its regions
A dog
starvd at his Masters Gate
Predicts
the ruin of the State
A Horse
misusd upon the Road
Calls
to Heaven for Human blood
Each
outcry of the hunted Hare
A fibre
from the Brain does tear
A
Skylark wounded in the wing
A Cherubim does cease to sing
The rest of the poem is here
View With A Grain Of Sand
by
Wislawa Szymborska
We call it a grain of sand,
but it calls itself neither grain nor sand.
It does just fine, without a name,
whether general, particular,
permanent, passing,
incorrect, or apt.
Our glance, our touch means nothing to it.
It doesn’t feel itself seen and touched.
And that it fell on the windowsill
is only our experience, not its.
For it, it is not different from falling on anything else
with no assurance that it has finished falling
or that it is falling still.
The window has a wonderful view of a lake,
but the view doesn’t view itself.
It exists in this world
colorless, shapeless,
soundless, odorless, and painless.
The lake’s floor exists floorlessly,
and its shore exists shorelessly.
The water feels itself neither wet nor dry
and its waves to themselves are neither singular nor plural.
They splash deaf to their own noise
on pebbles neither large nor small.
And all this beheath a sky by nature skyless
in which the sun sets without setting at all
and hides without hiding behind an unminding cloud.
The wind ruffles it, its only reason being
that it blows.
A second passes.
A second second.
A third.
But they’re three seconds only for us.
Time has passed like courier with urgent news.
But that’s just our simile.
The character is inverted, his hasts is make believe,
his news inhuman.
A Grain of Sand
by
Robert William Service
If starry space no limit knows
And sun succeeds to sun,
There is no reason to suppose
Our earth the only one.
'Mid countless constellations cast
A million worlds may be,
With each a God to bless or blast
And steer to destiny.
Just think! A million gods or so
To guide each vital stream,
With over all to boss the show
A Deity supreme.
Such magnitudes oppress my mind;
From cosmic space it swings;
So ultimately glad to find
Relief in little things.
For look! Within my hollow hand,
While round the earth careens,
I hold a single grain of sand
And wonder what it means.
Ah! If I had the eyes to see,
And brain to understand,
I think Life's mystery might be
Solved in this grain of sand.
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