The Water Cycle

Some dances last forever

cycling through the moves

it’s how Earth keeps a constant

a nature-driven groove.

Hip-hopping on the surface

water droplets bounce

jiving to the Sun’s beat

‘til suddenly they jounce-

evaporation.

Water vapour waltzes

swirling in the air

carried on the current

over here to over there.

Colliding with each other

the molecules take hands

a cloudy cabaret

cool atmospheric bands-

condensation.

Left feet are taking over

clouds clash with gentle bumps

the molecules a mosh pit

unlucky ones are dumped-

precipitation.

Rain can fall in buckets

snow can fall in heaps

runoff into rivers,

through valleys,

into seas-

Dancing on forever

waving to the skies

sun sparkling like a disco ball
drawing them up high.

Stories

We recently took the kids to a dinosaur dig.

An activity put on by a local community forestry group.

We spent the afternoon outside.

They dug.

They got dirty.

And they discovered a story.

The earth is full of stories

of creatures long ago.

Some that roamed on trunk-like legs,

their gait steadied and slow.

Others moved much faster

and chased across the plains

ostrich-like, they sprang along

‘til on their prey they gained.

Sifting through the dirt

we found more pieces of the puzzle-

short pointed bones that could be claws

and some that might be muzzles.

Carefully we brushed away

the brownness of the ground

and searched in every corner

‘til all the bones were found.

Jaws with teeth all flat and  w i d e

were placed above a spine;

tail bones – short and spiky-

set in a great  l o n g  line.

Once the feet were added

we stood and looked down on

the creature we discovered-

a story not foregone.