Water – Page 6 – duncancleary

River

A happy city:
One that faces its river,
and embraces it.

We are enjoying The Now ~
The river outlasts it all.

I am a sound wave:
At my post, I give warning:
Tsunami coming!

My voice echoes by the coast,
A siren for safety.

Dedicated to 24-year-old Miki Endo of Minamisanriku, who stayed at her post so that others may live:

Water into wine:

A New Covenant ~ a gift,

and yet it rains, still.

Estuary

Part 1: Outgoing

A clicking of mud
as the water drains
Slowly out to sea

Estuary, reed clad
whispering in the wind
Theropod spor on the flats

Man’s needs – cranes, chimneys
easy access to offload
Changes the landscape

But oaks survive,
and birds too
and small things – unnoticed

There is but one rock, in
this uncertain ground. I sit there
and have a beer.

Part 2: Incoming

In the fens, I am
Seated under oak, serene
Incense surrounds me

Complicated growth
Adorns the bark, lichens and such
Intricate, simple.

A path presented,
There is a choice, to follow
or now make my own

A decision made
Just then the Sun comes out, so,
figure what’s next!

A ship sailing by
framed by the reeds, it’s floating
on a sea of green.