It and He.

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Fay Slimm
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It and He.

Postby Fay Slimm » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:58 am

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Broad as a meadow and looking quite solid
the river ran slowly
smooth and brown like a long sunning snake
across his late childhood.
He used to take tourists around its reaches
and show them the moving
rootless islands, rafts of beauty which seen
from boats would sink
then surface again like overblown whales.
Insidious underflow,
deadly for swimmers yet some fools for a
dare had jumped over,
the river though knew and merciless it had
choked one or two.
Wild but beautiful those patches of golden
quicksand glistened with
hidden eddies in which no one was safe as
straggling roots caught
paddling toes in floating green and clawed
as river cascaded into
cauldron of boiling waters below, old now
he shuddered at all the
dead memories that devilish water held as
it and he dawdled there.

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Cindy
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Re: It and He.

Postby Cindy » Fri Feb 06, 2015 9:29 pm

I love this. I love your description of the river. Sinister, yet alluring. Then the line "he shuddered at all the dead memories"...I shuddered too. Great poem.

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Re: It and He.

Postby Stella » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:44 pm

Reminiscing as he grows older at how treacherous some beautiful things can be..and how we are tricked into exploring them.

you always manage to portray wonderful imagery with your words Fay.. :)

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Re: It and He.

Postby Sandra Martyres » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:04 am

What a vivid description of the river and all its hidden treachery... Great write as usual Fay!


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