Water’s Prayer – A little rain, a little snow, love, trust, and beauty

   Water’s Prayer

Leafless aspens groom
the iced breeze, while below

a brook descends the mountain
with its musical story, remembering

the serenity of sky, and lightning’s clear passion.
Water knows what is far will be near.

Water says choose that which closes distance,
choose touch. When snow falls,

and a green mystery is carried
by all that moves,

choose love.

– James Bertolino –
From Finding Water, Holding Stone, Poems by James Bertolino
Photo Credit, Tree in Winter Ice, by Les Anderson on Unsplash

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Love is the way messengers
from the Mystery tell us things.

Love is the mother. We are her children
She shines inside us, visible-invisible

as we lose trust or feel it start to grow again.

– Jalaluddin Rumi –
from Rumi: The Book of Love, Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Translated by Coleman Barks

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Rain

Woke up this morning with
a terrific urge to lie in bed all day
and read. Fought against it for a minute.

Then looked out the window at the rain.
And gave over. Put myself entirely
in the keep of this rainy morning.

Would I live my life over again?
Make the same unforgivable mistakes?
Yes, given half a chance. Yes.

– Raymond Carver –
From Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems, by Raymond Carver
Photo Credit “Raindrops on the Window Pane,” by Louis Gill

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