Shower
...In other worlds, we bathed in glass
instead of water.
Thousands of small grains cascade
as I stand bare in the shower, eroding.
Our ancestors never found cool, aqueous respite,
only beams that...
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Categories:
waterborne, corruption, earth, humanity, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Land And Waterborne Enemies
...Pests are literally destructive to nature and human survival. More than ten thousand species have survived various catastrophes for more than a thousand years. Dinosaurs may have lived and ruled fo...
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Categories:
waterborne, animal, death, environment, future,
Form: Prose
Autumn Walks
...I have loved these evening walks
through smoldering reeks,
ankle deep in haunted litter.
Loved
the flicker of mottled hawks,
flaming across a waterborne sky,
the soft mats of moss upon ...
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Categories:
waterborne, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Queen of England
...Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
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Categories:
waterborne, appreciation, celebration, death, grief,
Form: Clerihew
Waterproofing
...Wearisome weatherman
Wears watertight wedgies
With wide well-worn webbing
When wading wherever
Warming water washes
Wat...
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Categories:
waterborne, humor, water,
Form: Verse
Inward Seasons
...Memories like a Chinese dragon
fluid~~~multihued~~~rattling.
I wrestle my brain,
p i
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n d
i ...
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Categories:
waterborne, introspection,
Form: Free verse
A Proud Woman
...Stars, crisp in the deep plot
pulling off, late snow clouds
clean themselves
The river lets loose the carp,
coughs beneath its frozen part
Drippings on the roof hit the gutter
Ice branches ri...
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Categories:
waterborne, art,
Form: Free verse
Soul Stance River - 29
...The Nez Perce Indians who lead lean lives on these knolls and river brooks
have a style of soul that sneaks into the songs of the sun
and plays on the prayers in the patience of their dreams,
they...
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Categories:
waterborne, adventure,
Form: Epic