Begins
as a presence, a hovering
over
the waters, a breaking open
of
the deep, it becomes a promise
ratified
by a rainbow of remembrance
set
in the sky’s white vapors,
a
remembrance not to the mist
that
rises for a time above the lake,
nor
the wisps of mists,
but
a remembrance to the presence,
to
the hovering, of what
it
has promised, a covenant
of
water everlasting.
This
poem is submitted to the Warrior Poet Circle, hosted by Jason Stasyszen. To see
more poems prompted by the word “covenant,” please visit Connecting to Impact.
Photograph: Sundog by Petr Kratockvil
via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
A covenant of water by Glynn2
