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    Parker Owens
  • Parker Owens
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  • 02/13/2018
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 19. The River's Course

This is for Valentine's Day, a trifle early.

Is love so like the river's course,
unswayed, unturning from its stead
where weather and the mountains led
that fate and gravity endorse?

Does love meander, sprawl and spread,
with oxbow broad upon the plain,
which changes with the pelting rain
to flood and find a newer bed?

Might granite face or old moraine
guide all our living as it flows
from springs where inspiration grows
to giggle in the brook's refrain?

Is love the canyon, deep and close
where ardor's shout none can ignore
in thousand-voiced, full-throated roar,
and brief the sun its light bestows?

Aye, love will all our cares contain,
make us serene to all our foes,
as gently breathing current slows
and worries in its banks contain.

No matter how our fears are fed
by tributaries full of pain,
love's waterways for us remain
to carry us for miles ahead.

Though hurts may love erode, perforce,
our clay shall turn the waters red
to feed the marshes of the dead
and raise new life unto its source.

Leave a comment or a rant; both are fine by me.
Copyright © 2017 Parker Owens; All Rights Reserved.
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