Watery Secrets.
Watery messenger flows in full spate
still rivering subtly,
each potentized remnant of dwellers
living before, now
stored, patiently suspended, waiting,
minutely and unseen,
for minds to decipher notes of lament
or joy in cellular float.
Deep-level hearers catch each hidden
sigh as those deceased
leave chromosomed a further essence
residing in river-beds
which \'though liquidized still calls with
need to be discerned.
Passing birds glance whilst wheeling
and pause as if aware,
a kingfisher stares, wren lowers head
for something more than
food -satisfaction as whispering depth
demands trills in reply.
And furrier travellers busily speeding
through sidings halt
to hear memory\'s chorus, stoat, vole
and clever otter detect
in watery breath symphonic echoes
of lives departed
and dive to grasp more the secreted
missives left below.
Why then can we not turn our ears,
listen for sunken lessons,
take heed and digest wisdom\'s fare
streaming from cells
of a yester-year\'s river-side people,
pick up vital experience
sunken in time and learn if we dare.