(re-posted from 3 years ago)
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Rivers run
they do not walk
they crest a dam
and do not talk
while smoothing rocks
and rocking banks
in curving stones
and filling lakes
with bubbled lights
and gillied fish
feeding wells
and granting wishes
silver curved
pastoral scenes
in flows of bold
through forest greens
and wearing blue
borrowed from the sky
where falling water
dragons fly
in grassy hair
and clover pops,
through sunny glare
and mossy tops
the
river
knows
its way.
.
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© 2012, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
Brought to mind Langston Hughes’ poem (http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/negro-speaks-rivers).
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Oh, I like Langston Hughes! Hadn’t read his river poem before though – very nice (and with a similar resonance).
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Your words flow like a river!
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Thank you, Willow! 🙂
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Most delightfulish!
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I thankish you, Cynthia! 🙂
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Wonderful. 🙂
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Thank you, Nomzi! 🙂
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🙂
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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Just posted this on Blue’s Make beleive Boutique. Seemed just as appropriate here …
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Peter, I love that quote – thank you!
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Inspired, Betty. The poem itself indeed riverish, with delightfully playful ripples and eddies and that twinkling-eyed flourish of an ending.
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Oh, thank you, Ben! (It was fun writing this one.)
It seems I’m mostly re-posting old ones right now but hopefully there’ll be something new soon. And of course I need to catch up with blog reading and answering emails. Seems many of us are in that same boat. 🙂 Hope you’re having a good week so far!
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Yes thank you. And last week was good one too. I’ll e-mail you with more details.
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Just imagine a river of chocolate 😉
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Oh yes, I do, I do!!!! 🙂
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What fabulous imagery this evokes Betty, just perfect! xxx
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