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What the River Can Deliver

What the river can deliver Is a sense of calm and peace. While it’s flowing, it is showing Me anxiety’s release. Sun rays glisten as I listen To the slapping of the waves And the chugging of boats tugging Is a sound my spirit craves. For my money, when it’s sunny, There is not another place Where just sitting is befitting All the stillness I embrace.

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Rico Leffanta

Date: 12/7/2020 9:46:00 AM

Women can watch the waves roll in for hours on end; is something fishy going on? Recordings of babbling brooks soothe them at hospitals and doctor's offices, so you are right on the money, again! Aloha! Rico

Gershon Wolf

Date: 12/6/2020 6:48:00 PM

This resonates so well with me. Haven't thought of the slapping of the waves for too long, as I've been landlocked since March. I'm FAVing this one! Thanks, Gershon

John Watt

Date: 12/6/2020 3:04:00 PM

Wonderful rhyming, my friend. So true about the peace that comes from sitting and watching the water flow by.