Planet Literature

Longing

A grey day,
seemingly impenetrable
the shroud of the clouds.

But then,
all of a sudden,
a portal opens in the clouds
and you escape through space and time.

The pale canyons of houses
turn into blooming mountain valleys,
deep below you
life lazily meanders.

And you are a raven,
calmly spreading your wings
on your summit cross
and serenely sailing
over the waves of the mountain ridges
away into another land.

Music: Robert Schumann: Fantasies, Opus 73, I. Delicate and with expression; Performers: Paul Pitman, Michael Arnold, Bang-Eun Lee

Picture Credits:Free-Photos: Way (Pixabay)
Free-Photos (Pixabay)
Gilles Tarabiscuité: New York (Pixabay)
Free-Photos (Pixabay)
Gerd Altmann: Sky (Pixabay)
Eso 1103a: Orion Nebula (European Space Observatory: eso.org)
StockSnap: City in the fog(Pixabay)
Pexels: Yosemite (Pixabay)
Ilka Hoffmann: View from the mountain Leobner in Styria
Günther Schneider: Saar Loop in the fog (Pixabay)
David Mark: Landscape (Pixabay)
Katharina: Mountain Jackdaw (Fotolia)
Simon: Summit Cross in Schoeneck, Styria(Pixabay)
Wolfgang Heubeck: Raven (Pixabay)
12019: Nepal (Pixabay)
Svenni: Flight of a mountain jackdaw in the Bavarian Alps (Fotolia)