Edginess
wanting to be free
of detailed
drudgery
A melting river rising
sweeps away debris.
©2017 Ontheland
River is the theme word for Tuesday Poetics at dVerse Poets Pub. My tiny offering is a Shadorma (3-5-3-3-7-5).
Ontheland 
Nice. If only a river would come sweep away our dishes each night. 🙂
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That would be lovely :))
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I love the flow of this one (pun intended ☺). I’m especially fond of the phrase “detailed drudgery”.
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There is that cleansing if you will a river does when it overflows…it does drudgery just as we do, so not always as free as it seems. 😉
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Oh spring.. comes cleaning up the debris.
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A great work of reflection using the mind and river to clear each other, very imaginative Janice.
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Thank you Denis.
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I liked the rhyme in these words “debris”, “drudgery” and “free”.
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Words are amazing…I noticed this too after I wrote it. Thank you Frank.
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It makes us aware of the stuff that we dump in a river’s flood plain.
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I love your read of this … hard to believe perhaps but I wasn’t consciously thinking the environmental angle…waterbanks and roadways can be bleak sites of human debris especially after snowmelt.
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It’s true, most of the stuff stays on the bank, but if there are storms as well as high tides, you get all sorts of rubbish floating down the river. A sort of parading of dirty linen in public.
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That sounds quite awful….depressing to see a polluted waterway.
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All the major waterways are polluted to an extent, we just don’t always see it. Look for what lives in them. All the stuff that farmers spray on their crops ends up in the water system, and the Roundup that people spread willy nilly over every little weed in their gardens;
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So true. So sad.
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Wonderful brevity but so much depth in your ‘River’ Thank You.
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Thanks Paul 🙂
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Excellent!
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Thank you Dorna 🙂
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A melting river rising
sweeps away debris.
Very true Janice. When exhausted one may just be prompted to react very carelessly sweeping everything away without adequate consideration
Hank
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A kind of meltdown 🙂
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I love the simplicity which is deceptive, because it’s not simple at all! 🙂
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Simple and not so simple: both compliments. Thank you 🙂
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