Be as Water
Be as water,
Flowing from falls into silt,
Creating pools and streams,
Moving around rocks
And through openings in
Masses of reeds.
Be as water,
Flowing without obstruction.
Finding its course
Over the embankments, and
Finding stillness
In pools fed by streams.
Be as water,
Earth’s pulse,
Flexible, agile,
Life giving, lithesome.
Its supple force,
Cleansing all.
Be as water,
Its nourishment, creating and sustaining life.
Its steam, forming clouds
In Earth’s simmering heat,
The ice in her arctic breath,
Piercing fog.
Be as water,
Pure and enriching,
With powers that can’t be harnessed.
It’s Earth’s blood,
Pumping life into her veins
With vital force.
Be as water,
Dangerous and destructive
If Earth’s veins are slit.
Her roaring torrents of tears
Are savage and fatal.
Water knows its course.
Be as water,
A force of peace and joy,
Spitting up shells and glassy treasures.
A force of nature,
Sweeping away the ages
That need rebirth.
Copyright ©2018 Barbara Harris Leonhard @extraordinarysunshineweaver.wordpress.com
Image: digital art “Clouds Rising” ©Martha Harris See Martha’s Artistic Flarings @artisticflarings.blog
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Very beautiful.
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Thank you! 🤗
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Reblogged this on johncoyote and commented:
Please read and enjoy the work of a talented writer.
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You are so kind, John!
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I loved your work today. Amazing poetry.
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Oh, thank you! That inspires me to post soon! 🤗
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I am glad and you are welcome.
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Water and it’s ways beautiful
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Thank you! 🤗
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So glad to have found these beautiful words today.
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So glad to have found these beautiful words today.
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Thank you so much! I’m humbled…. so glad it spoke to you!
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