<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459536" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Lake, The Fountain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">by the lake so still so calm<br>sky-blue cloud-white<br>more sky than water this autumn day<br>the air so still above </div><div style="margin:10px 0">there a tree leans over the water<br>as if in thanks<br>and here a gathering of stones<br>awaits the offhand lapping of the wavelets<br>bringing out the many colours of the stones<br>that remember mountains edging the horizon<br>with light and shadow through the day</div><div style="margin:10px 0">over there a fountain plashes over worn carved stone<br>fed by a mountain waterfall wild fountain tamed<br>throwing up a million new-mined diamonds<br>droplets sparkling like a chandelier<br>the sun catches turning air and water<br>into unceasing dance of somehow joy</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the still lake the dancing fountain<br>telling with water two stories<br>stillness in joy <br>joy in stillness</div><div style="margin:10px 0">as two white-robed nuns who whisper laughing<br>laughing whisper<br>in the cool of the evening<br>beside the fountain<br>before prayer<br>and holy silence</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459536" data-title="The Lake, The Fountain de Michael Shepherd" data-description="by the lake so still so calm sky-blue cloud-white more sky than water this autumn day the air so still above there a tree leans over the water as if in thanks and here a gathering of stones awaits the offhand lapping of the wavelets bringing out..."></div> </div> </div>

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