From
before our beginnings
water,
earth, the breath of God
clay
in our mother’s womb
life-giving
waters, smooth, steam
waters
of life, of death, storms
moving,
never still, changing,
waters
sometimes killing, silent,
contamination,
the hand of man, chemicals
hidden
dangers, crescendo, hiding in plain sight,
in
ice or snow, falling, moving, falling down,
pouring
cold from the heavens
pure,
yet holding the minerals, the sun,
light,
dripping in a soft summer shower
life
in giving waters, open, ready
percolating
through layers, through soil,
raging
down from the mountains
racing
down the rivers, to the sea, to the ocean
frozen,
melting from the ice caps
etching
ancient stone smooth
flowing
to the sea, the to ocean
held
within its boundaries, captive, enslaved,
warm
waters touching the hot sand, the shoreline
giant
waves eroding the beach where we stand
moving,
ever moving, tidal, primordial, tactile,
smoothing
my feet, my spirit, tiny grains of former stone
feeding
my soul, silent, eternal waters
the
tides controlling, water sliding back and forth
a
small drop, a basin, gathered together
frozen
hard in winter, until spring breaks that grip
the
cycle beginning, returning, eternal, the origins of life
from
the waters, from before we were born
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edited October 27, 2014
Water – English – Science – v3
edited January 10, 2014
Water – English – Science – v2
January 8, 2014
Water – English – Science
(written, as a challenge to myself, about the next unit in 8th
grade science,
about water)
written as part of three additional classes with my English class
-
the first session we brainstormed words on a topic of our choice
(1/2/2014)
-
the second class we handwrote a poem using these words (1/8/2014)
-
the third class (1/10/2014)
&
edited January 5,
2014
under the sky –
v2
December 19, 2013
under the sky
written as part
of the third of three classes
at Katahdin
Middle High School
where the
assignment was our best Christmas present ever
about Ruth and my
wedding in 2004
&
Edited December
14, 2013
Snow on the
Mountain – 2 – v2
December 13, 2013
Snow on the
Mountain - 2
(as Lisa
Timberlake copied it from the board)
presentation:
Snow on the
Mountain
Nouns, Verbs and
Adjectives exercise
with 8th
Grade students
at Katahdin
Middle High School
December 13, 2013
Nouns: water, ice, stone, wave, crescendo, sun, tides, boundary,
ocean, drop, river, storm, life, light, womb, snow, steam, death, contamination
Verbs: drip, pour, etch, race, rage, slide, erode, touch, smooth,
melt, giving, kill, feeding
Adjectives: cold, fresh, frozen, ancient, small, giant, soft,
hard, warm, smooth, life-giving, silent
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