A moment in time
Savoured and held as truly mine
When a heart was given
In exchange for another, without questions
When love was like never before
Not ever since.A moment borne away by laden clouds
Sped along by winds
Rained joyfully
Upon the insidiously winding river
Touched by the lone-witness, the tree
And swiftly carried by currents to the limitless seaA moment that in the relentless sun
Rose again as unsullied vapour
Condensed by cool moonbeams on a full moon night
Found on petals and leaf tips at dawn
Dew drops that shine like tear drops,
My most beautiful thing……….– Shail Mohan (April 2012)
Today I’m taking part in the My Most Beautiful Thing Blogsplash to celebrate beautiful things – inspired by Fiona Robyn’s new novel, The Most Beautiful Thing. Bloggers from all over the world are taking part and writing or posting pictures of their most beautiful things today. Find out more here and see everyone else’s blog posts here.
Shail's Nest 
Gloriously beautiful!!!
Thank you Deepak 🙂
A truly beautiful moment and so wonderfully expressed. Thanks for sharing, Shail.
A truly beautiful moment and so wonderfully expressed, Shail. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Corinne for dropping in 🙂
Lovely thoughts and a lovely poem 🙂
Thank you Aabha 🙂
Beautiful! So refreshing.
And lovely lines to go with the pic 🙂
Thank you Swaram. I am obsessed with dewdrops/raindrops 🙂
Wow!! Beautiful lines and picture!
Thank you Deeps 🙂
It’s beautiful. The thoughtful words, the vivid word pictures, the deeply felt emotion and the journey, oh my oh my! That dewdrop crystallized with tingling freshness upon my soul, as I read it. I have this fascination for dewdrops as it is. You just brought it to life, and added dimensions I could only have visited in another lifetime 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love. I wonder if you’ve seen this one? (Sorry to post a link here, but I cannot help it :D)
http://ushus.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/a-notion/
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I have to hand it to you Shail, for the wonderful way you keep your verse so full of love and life and everything beautiful!
Thank you too, for directing me this way, though i do wonder if at all a post will appear 🙂
That was so beautiful. Thank you for sharing Usha 🙂
As for your comment, I am holding on to my chair for all I am worth or I might just float away!
And what’s this? Oh no no no! This won’t do. You better have a post up soon. Now that’s an order Usha Ma’am!
this one was beautiful 🙂
“A moment borne away by laden clouds
Sped along by winds
Rained joyfully
Upon the insidiously winding river
Touched by the lone-witness, the tree
And swiftly carried by currents to the limitless sea”
Come to Chennai..let’s meet..let’s meet..let’s meet
We’ll surely meet Bhavia 🙂 And thank you!
I love ever line of your poem and the photo, too! Breathtaking! Thanks for sharing. I feel so blessed after reading it.
Welcome to Shail’s Nest Christine, and thank you 🙂 Glad you liked this 🙂
Glorious, Shail. You say it like few can. Indeed, a very beautiful thing this verse is. 😀
Thank you. Your appreciation is much appreciated! 🙂
I’ve enjoyed your poem & picture, too. The tree witness, the limitless sea … the dew drops like tear drops. Precious images. 🙂
Claudine
http://www.carryusoffbooks.com/blog.html
Welcome to Shail’s Nest Claudine and thank you 🙂 Hopping over to your place to check the link 🙂
wow.. beautiful awesome excellent .. the picture is so beautiful .. the poem is amazing ..
Thank you, thank you Biks 🙂
Cannot have enough of rains and dew drops and the mist….
…your writing conjures up images that gives you a close experience of all these! Rain down your words….and thou shalt be called rain maker! 😀
Cheers to ‘that’ moment in times and all the beautiful ones that followed! 🙂
Tell me about it. I can never have enough of rain and dewdrops either. 🙂
Lol, rainmaker? I thought The Pink Panther was the rain-maker of the family! 😉 😛
Ahh… the moment lives on. 🙂 Thank you David.
A really tender and beautiful poem, thanks for sharing with us.
Welcome to Shail’s Nest Ruth and thank you so much 🙂
I stopped at the picture for a while ! .. for quite long actually.. its is beautiful..and then I see how vividly the presence of the dew drops have been aptly described in your poem!.. What “imagination”.. thank you..
Thank you Anil. I guess that’s a compliment coming from a photographer 😉 You don’t know the number of times I sit on my haunches and try to get that perfect shot with a frisky Labrador pup trying to mow me down. 🙂
Thank you for the appreciation of both the pic and the verse :).
Ok, so you take good pictures too. Seriously taking picture of dew drops isn’t easy at all.. especially if you don’t have the focus right and the light is not from the correct direction you cannot record its transparency. ..The one you posted here is not only sharp, its colorful and also see through:)
All my headers are of raindrops/dewdrops 🙂 You will find an album in Google+ too. I chose one for this post from among them.
– Now, I ‘m specially noticing it . Again nice pictures.. normally I would only casually look at the headers unless I know it is by the author itself..
Given your love for the dew drops.. I thought I will mention about this. again I very vaguely remember about reading
some poem (probably in Hindi 😦 ) about a drop of rain . It traces the life history of it- going down to the drop finally
ending into the mouth of an oyster and becoming a pearl… I had a similar feeling reading your poem..
I wonder how much it takes to be able to imagine so much..kudos
Oh I am sure that would have been a beautiful read about the raindrop that turns into a pearl. Thank you so much, Anil 🙂
lovely x
Welcome to Shail’s Nest Fiona and thank you 🙂 It was great participating.
Dew drops and tears…lovely!
Thank you Vivek 🙂
That was beautiful, Shail! You weave magic with your words(and your pics)
Thank you so much Smitha. 🙂
such beautiful lines! so precious!
Thank you Sumana 🙂
Beautiful , as always!
Aww… thanks Anita. But where is your post?
My post is here –>http://dazzlersdiary.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/my-most-beautiful-thing-2/
Thoughts expressed in the best way possible! Amazing.
Thank you Niks 🙂 Nice to see you.
Oh so lovely!!!
Thank you. Loved your post too 🙂
Gave me goosebumps 🙂
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that was so very beautiful Shail 🙂
Thank you Pixie 🙂
I am a sucker for dew drops! beautiful lines!
-Neha
Thank you Neha 🙂
This is gorgeous, Shail! I enjoyed these precious moments in your poem–lots of light and love. Thank you so much for sharing in the blogsplash. I hope you don’t mind, but I am featuring this on my blog: http://alotus-poetry.livejournal.com
Blessings,
Kathy (A~Lotus)
Welcome to Shail’s Nest and thank you 🙂 Thanks for featuring me. I tried to leave a comment on the post but there was some glitch.
That is sooooooo beautiful! You don’t fail to impress ever do you shail?
Thank you Rupert. The soooooooo overwhelms me 🙂 As for never failing to impress, *sniff sniff* Nope, I do fail to impress some, regularly and consistently 😦
Thats some beautiful poetry!
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Welcome to Shail’s Nest and thank you Archana 🙂 I just had time for a cursory glance at your page. Lovely poetry. Will be visiting you as soon as my holiday is over for a more detailed reading 🙂