River

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River

You have bathed me
Soothed me
Drank my tears 
and carried me away
on your fierce current
You have given me
your frozen surface
so I might skate
in the moonlight 
Your magical
existence
changes colors
with the sun
From morning
golden pond
to shimmering
diamonds
as twilight
claims the day
~~~~~~~~~~~~
I am deep
like my sometimes
still waters
Beneath my surface
in its dark mystery
live creatures
you never see
and plants that 
need no light
from the sun
Replenished
by constant
heavy rains
I sometimes
swell to my limits
and crest
Breaking my banks
and then
I am not loved


Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©

Amaya is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight
and she has prompted us as follows:
Tonight, I challenge you to a two-part prompt.
 Write a poem using apostrophe, and you can
name your object/recipient, or choose to be more
cryptic than declaring, “O Love…” for instance.
This part is optional, or you can skip the first
part and just share this portion. Write a
response from the perspective of your
object/recipient, which will in essence also
use apostrophe. 

Word Prompts
 
Word of the Day  - Twilight
Go Dog Go Cafe - River (Christine Ray's
Daily writing Prompt)

Image by Pexels from Pixabay 

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

29 thoughts on “River”

    1. Thanks Dwight. I almost didn’t participate inn the prompt tonight but then it ‘flowed’ like a river 🤣

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  4. I enjoyed the two perspectives of the river, Christine, the romantic and the realistic. I love the idea of skating in the moonlight and the lines:
    ‘From morning
    golden pond
    to shimmering
    diamonds
    as twilight
    claims the day’
    and the way they contrast with the deep, still waters that hide a dark mystery. The final line is sad but true.

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    1. Thank you Kim.I really appreciate it. I love that I am always learning something at D’Verse 🙂

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  8. I really like how your ending contrasted the usual joy in ‘my cup overfloweth’ type thinking and lets us consider the real danger in having too much of a good thing. Great, Christine, thanks for posting!

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  11. Christine,
    I really like these lines,
    “I sometimes
    swell to my limits
    and crest
    Breaking my banks”
    This is when I love someone the most. When they show up real.

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