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Writer's pictureSherinshe

Watery Emotions



Oh my, you are so happy 

When you are happy.


Celebrating life with 

Waterfalls so big and so glorious and so sublime

That they force even the most human-centric creature 

Into speechlessness and wonder.


Oh my, you are so angry

When you are angry.


Your temper waves whipping up into

An almighty storm

Your eyes fierce and glistening with white foamy rage

Throwing destroyer ships

And massive blue whales

Around in your giant washing machine belly. 


Oh my, you are so calm

When you are calm.


Your surface appears dead still

Embodying tranquillity and grace and humility  

Camouflaged mirror

Reflecting only the ego

Of those gazing.


Oh my, you are so sad 

When you are sad.


Tears 

Raining upon the earth

Filling up her puddles

Water holes and streams

Sometimes torrential and hysteric

When the grief of an immense forest fire 

hits you like a tsunami

Sometimes a sniffle drizzle

When one of your beloved dolphins

Dies of natural causes.  


Oh my, you are so clear

When you are clear. 


The trout appears to be 

Gliding through the air

In a fancy magic trick

As you hold yourself open and transparent

Revealing all to see.


Oh my, you are so elegant 

When you are elegant.


A single droplet of you 

Perched on that candy red hawthorn berry

Catching a spark of silver

From grandmother moon

Infatuating any passers-by.


Oh my, you are so playful

When you are playful.


Pulling in and out

At the yellow sand beaches

While the dogs and children

Skip and laugh in your wake

Creating and making life

Wherever you go

Effortlessly fertile.


You are the full spectrum of emotions 

You flow, crash, pour, trickle, stream, gush, splash, freeze, evaporate… 

You numb nothing

You are real

You are vulnerable

You are courageous

You are raw 

You feel the pulse of life fully in your every cell 

You are intoxicatingly you

Fully, holy,  you

And my goodness

Is it beautiful. 



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