by Emma Swailes
'I am Water'
When I swim, I am fluid water becomes an extension of my body Or I become an extension of the water It is pleasantly confusing Healing flotation gently pressing on my skin Holding me like a lover Tender liquid Needing no strength to lift my weight bubbles like silver barbels rise Emerging from my lungs Delicate jellyfish Gliding in a dream space Peaceful blue haze Below the surface of ripples I drift low to the earth In a transparent landscape No longer a land roaming being but An aquatic creature swimming free Or a mighty organism built to withstand the vast ocean tides That are dormant now Bleaching out sounds of reality I re surface to breathe I am water
'Speckled Horse'
I journey into the underworld
To meet my unknown familiar
I contemplate a mighty snake
Or a powerful black panther
Then I see him
A grey speckled horse
With a calm regal face
A coat as smooth as river pebbles
With the pattern of a slick duck egg
Velvet skin lays over lean muscle
fur glints with water droplets
I meet his gaze,
his beautiful features
his firm posture
Hooves grounded to the earth
Ears as sharp as arrowheads
turn to the sound
He turns away from me
Into a cosmic gallop
I watch him leave
'Transformed Life'
Sleeping in the blanket of deep rich soil
all this time
I was suspended in a muted existence
Of something like a life
Bird song on the blue screen above me
Was black and white
I was Cocooned in a shell of
depression that would occasionally
crack to let in the light
I would push my fingers through
and feel the dirt,
perhaps taste the grainy sand,
full of minerals and life
Sun in my eyes dazzled me then
The shell closed up again
The cracks healed themselves,
I wondered
How long have I slept?
Something had changed in me
I need not anymore sleep
I am feeling the healing
I am ready to climb out the deep
I accept the growth from beneath
and above me
also, from within my own soul
A power surge erupted
I emerged with force
Learning the way to be me and
Thrive in my transformed life
I am awake
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'Waves '
feel the waves
quieting the mind
breath in time with the ocean
Salt on lips, hair curls around a face
Watching the wind master the tides
Mighty forces battle for power
Elements of air and water
insignificant but inspired
standing momentarily
In this battle scene
And when it's time to leave
The forces will still rage
Ceaselessly
'The Trees '
In the rain
Grounded and still
Standing firm and free
They do not wonder at life
Beyond their own branches
At the leaves of another
Content with their roots
Barck thickens with age
Not bitterness or spite
They stretch from the earth
To the skies
Breathing in and out
To help humans grow
And when you cut them down
They will die but
You can see
Rings of the years they
Have lived
For us
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