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Ode to Rock and Water Be a Rock I will be Water Be the hot molten lava spewing forth from the volcano and flow to the ocean I will cool your crystals and shards and settle you to a resting place Be a cliff face I will crash my waves upon you and take pieces of you to the beaches. You will be crystalline sand Be a rock in a river-bed I will flow over you and smooth your sharp edges Fall into my still pools and I will ripple your messages out until they return When you are cool grey and silent Listen as I sing, shimmer and dance Tumble in the stone polisher's jar I will cushion the blows from the other stones Be an island of coral, granite and basalt I will nourish you with gentle rain Be the tiny stones holding tender roots in their place I will penetrate the earth to feed them Be a secret place and I will cloak you in my fog and mist I cannot be a rock but I will be ice to hold secrets of my own, Will you forgive me? When you have become dust and ash and fly into the atmosphere, my rain droplets will surround you and bring you back to earth. Be a Rock and I will be Water .................. |
Additional Notes:
This poem is a resubmission (with improvements), it is also on a website of mine:
http://sgallardo.tripod.com/indexTDE.html
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