Liquid Wind
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Liquid Wind
River flowing slow
Out to where it meets the sea
Peaceful white caps seen
Belies stirring undertow
Mixed water vortex spout high
We reach for it in all its flavor cold or hot
Savor the steam it is mixed in with___water
Quenches the thirst reinvigorates our souls
A suspension of gas prism breaking the colors
Of visible light in short arches in double decks
Hemispheres in rings over cousin vapor clouds
A flowing river out from the deep closets of mountains
Cascading down the cliffs creating cave sun curtains
Meandering the valleys nourishing the land its way to sea
Compound of one and two atoms seen as dew ice lattices and rains
Blind but felt as sticky shimmer layer on a tropical moist day
Out under the sun hot breezeless morn into shirtless night
We reach for it in all its flavor cold or hot
Savor the steam it is mixed in with___ water
Quenches the thirst reinvigorates our souls
Purifier of beings opaque in sins universal transparent solvent
In streams rains lakes seas and oceans estuaries and geysers
Air atmosphere clouds mountains volcanoes steam wholesome in us
Benevolent substance sustainer of life from reaches far away space
One with the Word shared in the Creation from the first gleam of light
A gas runoff flooded the celestial galaxies filtered into pure azure
Hydrate we cleanse we lubricate we cool we boil we temper
Reverse pressure filter purified vital to all forms of life
All manners of life leisure we take sporting all possible way
We reach for it in all its flavor cold or hot
Savor the steam it is mixed in with___ water
Quenches the thirst reinvigorates our souls
A drop of rain on the windshield hardly noticed
Farther up on the bridge river under calm unusual
Overcast sky way back now suddenly spread black
Droplets now two and more and more in foggy gale winds
Missile rain at sharp angle headwinds hitting windshield blades
Running amok water under bridge now roaring rapids downstream
Clear as air fluid as wind liquid as bird songs refreshing
Searched with vining rods conveying life’s comforts and pleasures
Can turn into twisted vortices of evil visible destructive haunting
We reach for it in all its flavor cold or hot
Savor the steam it is mixed in with___ water
Quenches the thirst reinvigorates our souls
Hot once more vapor
Rises unseen atmosphere
Jelled drizzles light through
Bows of colors curtain sky
Birds lullaby setting sun
©NDR10.14.2016
A tanka/haiku +14 expanded into unrhymed tercet and ends in the same tanka
format.
Poem is a painting about water - its two faceted form: peaceful on the surface,
reflecting, reflective, refractive, wholesome yet can turn into a deluge
we seek a refuge from.
One of 4-5 classical elements that's fascinated me and started to write
about.
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