Maureen
Egan
flow
breathe in
the blue liquid
confluence of heaven
same sky, common earth, shared shores - one
ocean
Linda Lee Crosfield
Throat
you thought
to close mid-sip
to change your mind, mid-gulp
you learn too late what slakes can scald,
can drown
Gillian Russell
Shiva
downpour
as nails of rain
pierce tatters of flowers
lobelia a spider sprawl
on earth.
Barbara Pelman
No More Coffee
Drink hot
water, lemon
in a twist-Chinese cure
for boredom: everything seems good
after.
Tina Biello
Path
Cherry
blossoms weep pink.
Light the stone walkway home.
After first Spring rain, our feet carve
a trail.
Mavis Jones
Lake
Frozen
Ice lilies curl
On surfaces inscribed
By skate blades..a kind of winter
Haiku
Barbara Wild
the beginning of rain
listen
that first thin pulse
droplets on rock, on leaf
spare music heard without knowing
going
Madeleine Nattrass
Black Gold
Off-shore
Oil spoils the sea
Catastrophic, unless
Mother Earth sees fit to forgive
Again.
Morgan Townsend
Callas
Rain clouds
boiling, burst like
pregnant dandelions.
Black clothes toss lilies like drops of
water.
Sidney Bending
Reflecting
This pond
reflects blossoms -
here red camellias,
in this light, double the number
of koi.
Gabriel Dey
Clouds Decipher the Anthology of Water
Bodies
Two hearts tangling
Mountain and a dark lake
A breathing sky- disappearing
Darkness.
Frances Schiavina
Winter
Raindrops
Crying on glass
Lamenting fading light
Ushering in winter of long
dark nights.
Lee Beavington
Rain
Sky flood
Dew stars, grass pearls
Whitecaps to clear current
Friend to fish, folly for fire
Cloud child
T.M. Göttl
46
Rivers
carry lilies,
like our unlit candles
and so many cups of tea, now
missing.
Amy Ainbinder
Silent Spring
Water
Rachel Carson ---
a difficult journey
Beethoven's dream-filled concertos
Silence
dan smith
We Thirst
We can
walk on water
now, in bloody sandals,
cancerous monks in oily rags,
we thirst.
Andrea Da Costa
Poolside
Sparkling
veins of sunlight
ripple with the water -
feet kicking lazily I watch
them dance.
J.E. Stanley
Vapor Cloud
Centaur
strikes the shadowed
surface of Cabeus.
The moon's deepest secret revealed:
water.
Marina Blokker
Stikine
River
skims over rock
rough in tangled forest,
growls in roar of wash, a wild spear
released.