Crystal waters flowing fast
Where salmon wait to leap
Clear as glass I see the rocks
With weeds that sway down deep
The waterfall that blocks their way
To where they’re lives begun
Seen by their parent’s just last year
Now offspring have to run
Streamline bodies eye the falls
In foam to wait a time
Then each in turn dash forward
Before they start to climb
What a task how could it be
Up falls of such a length
Would all the salmon make the top?
That needed super strength
Of course they had no option
Life’s passage they are willed
Beyond the falls and not before
Each salmon’s life’s fulfilled
© 2008 David Threadgold
Rambling Riddles & Rhymes
You described so well the direction these fish must take at the end of their lives. Nature's cycle is so fascinating. I love your fresh uplifting themes and wonderful rhyming style, David! '10! ' Warm Wishes, Marilyn
I love this - I actually cried when I watched the old salmon so big & old & ugly as they died 10
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They want to put a hydroelectric plant at a lovely waterfall near where I live. I think they misunderstood me when I heard and said 'Oh, Dam it! ' -c