Writing On Water

Thanks to two dear commenters I've edited the following tanka:

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Before there was time

There was just G-d and water

What do we have now?

Along the shore, I breathe, watch

G-d's breath over the water

The poem was written while sitting at the shore. There's a song I like about the singer seeing Willy Mays at a Home Depot. I was disappointed to read that the song is fictional. I still like it. I love strong first person voices that I can relate to, whether they're fictional or real. And yet for I only only really write truths. When I write I'm at a shore watching the water, I am.

I wrote the following poem the first time I came to this place. I recently told someone about my discovering the walk along the water game. The reaction was one of disbelief - doesn't everyone know that game? There's got to be a first.

Walking alone along

a quiet shore

barefoot

Letting the water

surprise me

sometimes washing

over my feet,

sometimes reaching

my knees,

sometimes teasing

falling just short

A one and only

experience

just now

my first time.

I will say

no more