Log in the Stream ~ by Mo Henderson ~ part of the Unexpected Visitor theme

Continuing our theme of The Unexpected Guest, we offer you a poem, written by Mo Henderson. Suggest reading it, and then reading it again more slowly.  It has ‘hidden depths’.

Log in the Stream

Grounded, movement flowing around this half-submerged body,
neither within nor without.
Water gradually changing my shape,
until eventually, the earth beneath loosens its grasp,
free to go, what path to take?

My coat of moss entangles with passing unexpected visitors,
appearing and disappearing, familiar old fellows.
Once standing tall together,
in the distant bright green meadows.

Never fearing, trusting, as the waterfall is heard.
Suddenly a free fall then a rising in the lake.
Ever-changing forms, just as leaves grow from the root,
end and beginning return to the source,
what next will becoming make?

Mo Henderson

3 Replies to “Log in the Stream ~ by Mo Henderson ~ part of the Unexpected Visitor theme”

  1. Thank you for this Mo. A lovely gentle experience of how to let go. Inspirational. A technical comment… I love the insistence of the final rhyme – lake and make. That last line has stayed with me.

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