Water Poems

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
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I even hear the mountains
the way they laugh
up and down their blue sides
and down in the water
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The moon shimmers in green water.
White herons fly through the moonlight.

The young man hears a girl gathering water-chestnuts:
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In the wave-strike over unquiet stones
the brightness bursts and bears the rose
and the ring of water contracts to a cluster
to one drop of azure brine that falls.
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How still,
How strangely still
The water is today,
It is not good
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You are the daughter of the sea, oregano's first cousin.
Swimmer, your body is pure as the water;
cook, your blood is quick as the soil.
Everything you do is full of flowers, rich with the earth.
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On the banks of Ganges
I sat in a serene and sombre mood
Looking at the playful water
as the wind like a great artist
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The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
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Any soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
From that water of life he is in a state of elation.
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Along the sun-drenched roadside, from the great
hollow half-treetrunk, which for generations
has been a trough, renewing in itself
an inch or two of rain, I satisfy
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If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
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TWO boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still,
Ten fishermen waiting- they discover a thick school of mossbonkers-
they drop the join'd seine-ends in the water,
The boats separate and row off, each on its rounding course to the
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She begins, and my grandmother joins her.
Mother and daughter sing like young girls.
If my father were alive, he would play
his accordion and sway like a boat.
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More than air
More than water
More than lips
Light light
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Any lifetime that is spent without seeing the master
Is either death in disguise or a deep sleep.
The water that pollutes you is poison;
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OH! there once was a swagman camped in the Billabong,
Under the shade of a Coolabah tree;
And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling,
“Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.”
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Below the water surface
I put down my foundations
to build a house
with a tiny room
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Awake at night--
the sound of the water jar
cracking in the cold.
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old pond.....
a frog leaps in
water's sound
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Beloved of the rivers,beset
By azure water and transparent drops,
Like a tree of veins your spectre
Of dark goddess biting apples:
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A political person will probably ask you,

"Do you take a glass half full, or, half empty? "
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Water the garden.
Where your soul plants seed.
Water the roots that ground you.
Water the soil that provides the nutrients for the soul. Water what surrounds you. Water your dreams that take you where you want to go
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Water, water.
Is not everything water?
Water is air, water is also fire. Here it is water, water is also there. All water, take care.
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Water and water with nature,
Dear, for life for livelihood
Let us tame the rivers.
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There is no life without water

honesty on water issues
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No water no water no water
You said though, water water
And everywhere water, see dear.
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I recently left some water on the table…only half a cup
but I was thirty so I took the water pitcher and quickly filled it up…

As I poured water into water it became obvious to me
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All about water,
Water and water
Everywhere, water.
Yet we are running
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Entire India is facing water crisis
ground water going low
ponds, lakes, rivers drying up
rain water flowing to sea
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When there is no water there is danger
When there is excess water there is danger,
Ranger of forest tells that trees die
Due to wiled fire that spreads,
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