More stone than sea
I’d be like water,
touched by wind,
loved by the moon.
I’d dwell in deep canyons,
travel the furthest reach,
and beyond sight of land
be the ocean that shapes your grief
in a curling wave
of foam and sunlight.
Reading of “To Be Like Water” with music by Tinariwen.
Don, knowing you are, you would not only become water. You would be a king tide. Thanks for the alert about the new book. Luckily, we just acquired a new bookcase.
Don, I feel myself light and floating with the sweetness of this poem, and also the last one. Thank you for your gifts of images, words that open up new awareness and feelings in me.
Thank you
Among the great attributes of water is its ability to conform to a container without losing its essential nature. From a human standpoint, many circumstances will seek to change the nature of its participants. One of the primary challenges of being human is to respect the boundaries of life while being true to ones identity. Inevitably water changes its circumstances. That also speaks of its nature.
Yes, the fluidity of water is so enthralling.
Water, the elemental symbol of Truth, also known as the “universal solvent”, dissolves physical solids into one liquified (flowing) solution. In that vein, the Spirit of Truth dissolves rigidities in the human heart, so that it too can flow.
May I epitomize the Water of Truth raining down, while Love’s Spirit reigns.
“I came like Water and like Wind I go” — old Omar
My grief too has been transformed in aqua sea foam wonders of curling wave and sunlight
“All in all is all we are”