Water helps maintain: a sonnet in remembrance of Clara Ellis -by- Robert Stone, 18 March 2023
Water helps maintain: a sonnet in remembrance of Clara Ellis
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Our bodies are a lot of water held
together by this magick we call life.
at birth the waters break, new life expelled,
at death the waters wash, the end of strife.
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In gentle drops or forced through nozzles tight
the range of feeling seems to have no stop;
from narrow stream we jump with lowly flight
to ocean waves unlimited backdrop.
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Propelling self through water helps maintain
good rainge of motion, strength, and bold delight,
in youth achievement joy which will remain,
in age attainment wise so says hindsight.
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To have a pond or lake at your back door
connects your outward sight with inward core.
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- Robert Stone, 18 March 2023
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Clara Elizabeth Ellis (11 February 1932 - 18 March 2015)
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I don’t know whether Clara was a swimmer. Swimming is the only sport I ever learned.
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Inlet of Tim's Ford Lake in back of our home, Winchester Tennessee, 6 October 2013, a photograph by Terri Powell Haight
Inlet of Tim's Ford Lake in back of our home, Winchester Tennessee, 6 October 2013, a photograph by Terri Powell Haight