Over at
the
Poetic Asides blog, Robert Lee Brewer is running a poem a day
challenge for the month of April, national poetry month. The theme for
the second day was "water." Here's my poem for this challenge:
Water
Under the surface you exist
A thick substance separates you
From the world around you
Ripples reflect reverence,
Reality, rights
No one understands
The beauty that is you
Hydrogen, oxygen, combined
Together in a chemical bond
Without the two built together
The essential element of life
Would not exist
Two into one, it’s not an uncommon concept
For you, your ripples, your complex simplicity
Such a small thing that is so necessary
Uniting everything
Lighting life
Providing relief from thirst
Surface tension a mystery
Life from elements
Waving
Water
