Water Now We Poems | Examples
These Water Now We poems are examples of Now We poems about Water. These are the best examples of Now We Water poems written by international poets.
We were all once beautiful
the way a curling leaf
or surf-washed pebble is.
The best eye-shades
are spiral time-bombs.
Song-birds tick like clocks
when they are silent.
Great grandmothers
cook ghosts in kitchen pots
and we are still here
asking for more.
Now bones remember their dust,
the scratchy flakes of calcium under fire.
Now we are beautiful once more,
flames in ice-water.
We gleam into the unseen
waiting to be breathed into
beauties last inferno.
For Now, We Wait
Morning at the Quay in Venice by Helen Allingham (Painting #9)
Broken through
concrete and stone,
her heart felt ships passing
day and night.
She could no longer carry her
child with its tired feet,
her arms weighed down
by hunger and despair
and a husband
not yet returned
from sea.
Soon, she guarantees
her little one’s
searching eyes, soon.
Soon, he will embrace
us child with open arms
and big heart, with sea stories,
and food, much food to quiet
our stomach’s loud rumbles.
For now, water shall cool our feet,
we sit and wait together,
find things to laugh about
before his ship
comes alongside,
his two favorite girls.