Water! Water! Everywhere!

erwinkennythomas on Dec 2, 2011

Tags: precipitation, water

As the saying goes, "Water! Water! Everywhere!" Water lends itself to a powerful imagery that we truly can’t do without.

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Puddles, streams, lakes

Rivers and oceans

Are filled with water

Everywhere

But are they?

- – -

Rain, snow

And springs

Bring us more

Which we enjoy

- – -

Water may be

All about us

But most of it

Isn’t the right kind

- – -

It may be salty

Polluted

And unfit

For human consumption

- – -

Yet through it

We obtain food

From plants

And animals

- – -

We play

Boat, fish

And swim in it

- – -

Some parts of our world

Don’t have this luxury

Because they may be

Located in deserts

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In other places

Precipitation

Is so low

That there’s drought

- – -

So water isn’t everywhere

Although we hear this saying

When there are horrific floods

It remind us

That water is a force

To reckon with

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Water is a powerful!

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Comments (17)

KittyK on Dec 2, 2011
Isn’t this just a pathetic nasty mess? Why people litter is beyond me!
aheed411 on Dec 2, 2011
Sad
Christine Ramsay on Dec 2, 2011
A well expressed poem. It is amazing that though there is so much water in the world there never seems enough drinking water to go around.
megamatt09 on Dec 2, 2011
Interesting words.
ashan1614 on Dec 2, 2011
Water is indeed one of the most powerful forces on earth. It can be quite destructive and yet brooks and streams can be so calm and soothing. It is something we cannot live without yet when it turns its fury on us….. beware!
pattiann on Dec 2, 2011
Great!
papaleng on Dec 2, 2011
Water, a prime factor for survival. Sad to say, the world lacks clean drinking water.
LoveDoctor on Dec 2, 2011
I like the different ways you have expressed this poem. Water is necessary.
indianwriting on Dec 2, 2011
yes…water is pure n powerful.
Audrey Howitt on Dec 2, 2011
Water is very powerful–lovely work!
iva75cpb on Dec 2, 2011
Like an old saying in my country: Wading in water but walking thirsty.
lapasan on Dec 2, 2011
We should protect the invironment so that water will not get polluted.
ittech on Dec 2, 2011
chronological sequence, snow

And springs

Bring United States of America more

Which we undergo

beautyful
Eunice Tan on Dec 2, 2011
Water is the main of everything
foxpete88 on Dec 3, 2011
nice one…thanks
Muhammad Fajar Marthias on Dec 3, 2011
yes water is a powerful, everything needs water, humans,plans, animals,etc, great share erwin
SharifaMcFarlane on Dec 4, 2011
We forget how powerful it can be until disaster strikes.

Water! Water! Everywhere!

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