Poetry

[haqiqu]

My heart just aches, and is breaking, because of the callous unconcern for the waters of the Gulf and all the creatures it sustains.

# Water cleanses and heals us. All life depends on it. A practice of gratefulness for water: http://bit.ly/bKbTMB

# Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.
~ Mahmud Shabistari

# Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

# The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.
~ Lao-Tzu

# To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating....
~ John Burroughs

# When all the waters are polluted...only then will you discover you cannot eat money.
~ Cree prophecy

# Oh! Mother Earth, who has the ocean as clothes and mountains and forests on her body, I bow to you.
~ Hindu prayer

# An exquisite water blessing from Annette Cantor's "Songs of the Earth" CD: http://bit.ly/aSbqhA

# Water flows from high in the mountains; water runs deep in the Earth. Miraculously, water comes to us, & sustains all life.
~Thich Nhat Hanh

# All praise be yours, my Lord, through Sister Water, so useful, lowly, precious and pure.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

# Gratitude to Water: clouds, lakes, rivers, glaciers; holding or releasing; streaming through all our bodies salty seas...
~ Gary Snyder

# The waves of the sea keep the rhythm of my dancing steps.
~ Pir-O-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan

# Living springs shall give cool water; in the desert, streams shall flow.
~ Hebrew, traditional