Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WATER, by LEONID NIKOLAYEVICH MARTYNOV


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First Line: Water?
Last Line: All but life.


Water?
Yes, it's water.
And here we have the surety:
It follows waters laws;
It falls in drops,
It flows,
It passes all the tests of clarity and purity --
But does it serve to slake
Your thirst, or wash your clothes?

It scorns to deck its rim with rushes, reeds and sedges --
No sheen of silvery fish in dim mysterious deeps,
No waving water-weeds. And round its tidy edges
No song-bird sings, and never a willow weeps.

Water?
Yes, it's water;
It's proved by all the data,
Although it knows no wave of storm or strife.

And thus
This H2O,
This aqua destillata,
Has all that water has --
Yes,
All but life.





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