Paul Craft http://www.rubylane.com
The river is eternal
A network of nerves
Spread out into canyons
To squeeze earth’s breast
Til every drop is sucked
Drawn drop by drop
Into a surging flow
It’s a great mystery
How all water is one
How it seeks after itself
Opens its door like a lover
To welcome itself home
To surrender itself
To the wild rush
The river bears
Its tears to the sea
To season the breeze
And sanctify the shore
Til purified the tears
Rise up once more
Within a cloud
To fall on peaks
Perfect diamonds
Within whose crystals
Hide all ecstasy & grief
For all the river loves
Just like the river
Endures in time
Poet's Corner 