Rivers by Robert Thiessen

Morning on the Seine Near Giverny, by Claude Monet, 1897.

Rivers

I love rivers.
Bluewater.
Seguin
Little White.
Swannee
Mississippi.
Jordan.
Jabbok.
I love rivers.
Even two that almost swept me away.
The Niagara and
Humber.
I love rivers.
Fast.
Noisy.
Furious.
Slow.
Quiet.
Wide.
Narrow.
Rivers excite me.
Challenge me.
Calm me.
Teach me, and
Inspire me.

And I wondered, does God love rivers?
Here are a few words of what He said.
And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden.
A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden.
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden

Jacob rose up and passed over the river.
She came down to wash herself in the river.
You give them drink from the river.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God.
The river of God is full of water.
Then your peace would have been like a river.
My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Baptized of him in the river Jordan.
Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
The angel showed me the river of the water of life,
bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God.

I love rivers.

Robert Thiessen

This was written for the 20 Poem Challenge.