Monday 19 October 2009

Elemental family

To gather rocks and build a house

To gather breath in springtime air

To gather fish from seven seas

To gather round a fire

To live


To life


To love

Together near a fire

Together swimming seas

Together breathing air

Together climbing higher rocks

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9 comments:

  1. Unknown20 October 2009 at 17:39

    A celebration of togetherness..i like this

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  2. Poetic Flow2 August 2011 at 20:39

    Such a calming and warming poem John, great ink!

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  3. Anonymous17 September 2011 at 12:47

    Great transformation from "To gather" to "together". Poetics of plural is fascinating.

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  4. Claudia P Aponte26 May 2012 at 18:40

    Hallelujah!

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  5. Unknown21 February 2013 at 19:56

    My grandmother always told me we were ancestors

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  6. Nada Adel8 October 2013 at 11:11

    Beautiful piece.

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  7. Donna Carrick7 February 2014 at 17:22

    Beautiful.

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  8. peter patti17 February 2014 at 12:03

    I like this poetry but I don't share your thoughts about the sense and meaning of "family". I would rather write:

    "together... alone".

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  9. Unknown29 March 2014 at 12:37

    What a beautiful and heart warming poem. Thank you. I needed this today.

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