a photograph by Sonja Bingen
Tag Archives: Water
Gray-White Geese
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
Put your arms around me
to keep the desert winds
from blowing through me.
Now!
As the snow clouds have gathered
like gray-white geese
gathering on water.
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The Place Where I Walk
photographs by Ethel Mortenson Davis
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The Builder
by Ethel Mortenson Davis
We were hoping
to catch a glimpse of
the one who made this place,
a summer home
by the water.
We wanted to see him or her,
but we keep missing him.
Perhaps if we rise
early in the morning
when it is still dark
we will glimpse this one.
Or if we delay in the evening,
when the summer light
lays on our shoulders
for endless hours,
we will see the builder.
I know he or she has left gifts everywhere,
like the pile of stones
at the water’s edge.
It is a masterful display
of color and size,
each one shiny
from the motion of water,
a universe within itself.
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The Well
a children’s poem by Thomas Davis
“The well has gone dry for the winter!
Oh my! Oh my! What shall we do?
The well has gone dry for the winter!
Oh my! Oh my! What shall we do?”
“Go down to the creek with a bucket
And clear the crusted ice away.
Dip the bucket into the water
And carry the water away.”
Filed under Poetry, Thomas Davis