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Published: 2011-07-12 17:24:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 229; Favourites: 8; Downloads: 0
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River rolling down and deepwater murmurs me to sleep
I'm here at night beside the stream
so hushabye, it's time to dream.
La Llorona stalks the waters
seeking for lost sons and daughters
I'm safe from her, a child no more
but what of the nixie on the shore?
What of the kelpie, cunning and grim?
Is a woman safe from them?
Hushabye, I won't cry
the water is my lullaby
Water, carry them away
I'm a naiad, and I say
for my dreams to pool and pour
me full of power forevermore
River rolling down and deep
water whispers in my sleep
I smile to myself, for few
know that I am dangerous too.
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Comments: 4
Beautiful! I absolutely love this, you should enter some of your work in competitions
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That's very beautiful. Is it like a companion poem for the naid sister? Because it also has to do with them but this time it's from a naid's point of view. You should find a publisher! They are very nice!!
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Thank you! It's a stand alone. In my rough draft I has 'water-woman' instead of 'naiad', but that didn't seem quite right. It didn't imply the danger I was going for, so I changed it. Those two poems do go well together, now that I think about it....
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