62 Rivers Poem by Saiom Shriver

HUMBLE SWORD RIVER

Towering granite mountains
cut by the river..
humble living silver sword..
staying not for victory
flowing seaward
toward her Lord

DIAMOND BACKED CUYAHOGA RIVER

From the Palisades
we saw
a diamond backed rattler
radiant in the sun
.. rippling his rattle
arcing to strike
the Cuyahoga Valley
to evergreen life...
.. in every dropp of his river flux
shining with the sun's own lux

AQUA TRAIN

Rivers of peace
gather mass in their aqua train
.. their gentle ways
bisect without force
the land of Aquitaine

TWO RIVERS MERGE

The two rivers did
flowed together
with few eddies of resistance..
before the one of more power
made the other flow
in his direction..

as Spirit ends
rebellion through
the magnetism

WHERE THE OHIO WEDS THE MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI

Above works hard the tug boat
It churns and puffs and floats
and ruffles and foams the coats
of these two great saints.

Below the longawaited mating
of two giants..
profoundly peaceful
only here and there
eddies of ecstasy
betray the great confluence
as branch braids into trunk

Mississippi Missouri had surrendered to
God
his desire for a wife..
knowing not that the Ohio
was waiting for
him
in the corridors of time..

not fireworks but waterweaving
in this most sacred silence




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Diamond Backed Cuyahoga is to John Seiberling, his wife,
and all those who have worked to preserve the Cuyahoga Valley
May it be free of axes, chain saws, hunters, and fishermen
Mississippi Missouri Weds Ohio is to C Connerton and all
other residents of Cairo Illinois