River Thoughts: Poems.
River Thoughts Copyright (text, drawings, and photos) : Alison Lawrence. Dedication: For Jesus. *** I Am Beckoned To The River I am beckoned to the river; and there, the world stills. I will go down to the water, and there I will find many happy things. If the children go with, we will see even more: a ginger kitten in emerald grass, a determined tortoise striving to cross the road, a parrot brightly saying hello. Then round the corner, we stop. because there is the blue, green, brown river, concerned only with traveling to the sea. Yet, at every stage, we humans can enjoy its prescence as it goes by. And as you walk, you can't help but keep your head turned its way; to watch and exclaim over the river's companions: pelicans comical, jeweled, diving kingfishers, sober and regal, the heron, his opposites, the rabble seagulls. Wind is whipping, birds are swooping, screeching, flapping, walking, stopping, walking, stopping; water is lapping, slapping, twinkli...
