** Image by Alicia Austin : Star Like Water Flowing **
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if you grow weary
of walking down to the bank and
gazing at the others
on the other shore

be they friend, stranger
enemy, or ally...

if you grow weary
of gazing at that other
on that 'other' shore...

be, instead,
the river

vast
and free

be that which nourishes people
and cleanses them
and draws them together


success is imminent to water
water finds ease in all situations
the waves never find fault in the shore
even though they crash against it
over and over again...

of course, the cliffs are ever-patient indeed...

yielding, giving way, inevitably,
to the changing of the tides.


when water is damned
it does not retreat
it does not know how
instead it wells up, and moves around the obstacle with ease, or it
overflows the barrier, embracing it vigourously,
eagerly wearing the edges down to smoothness
unearthing its own path of least resistance

water's ongoing effluent emergence
shapes and defines flow and essence

be
that which finds your way gracefully
back to your inevitable home
shaping and improving all you touch
sweeping ever-evolving trails of inspiration
around the earth

be
the current
(another word for what is happening, in the present, the now)

be
currency
(another word for af-fluence in motion, flowing)

and
please
be
drunk on this rainbow shimmering creation
who holds our fate in her
tender, moist fingertips

this goddess of water,
worship her with your lips
your tongue, your eyes
feast on her beauty
and she will reward your heart
with a crystalline infusion of light
and love
divine essence from our
earth mother's veins

drink deep


all my relations.



Dedicated to the FlowFest crew
Check it out: Sept. 12-13 in Nelson, BC
More at: flowfest.ca