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Wet
by Kate Burnside → (All Poetry by Kate Burnside)
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Spoken like a true Brit! :))


WET


Why does water have such thin skin?
Why does it leak and drip and
burst its banks, changing everything?

Why is it mostly what we need,
and most of what we are?
And does it seem that it’s what
the world’s made up of, near and far?

Why does water always alter,
dry up, vaporise, disappear –
then come back with a vengeance?

How come it mists up our windows
and coats our dry walls;
swells our brains or floods our senses?

When I say “water”, why do I mean “love”?
Why is love like water, and why is love so…

wet?

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 Reviews of "Wet"
Reviewed by Rebekah Rosie Lang
Reviewed on November 20, 2005
Interesting View!
Becca

Reviewed by Suzy Karnow (Reader)
Reviewed on November 19, 2005
Bravo! :-)

Reviewed on November 17, 2005
:) Love that ending--cheeky you! :)

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on November 16, 2005
Love you ending question and the way you built it up.

Reviewed by Aberjhani
Reviewed on November 16, 2005
Flows like the stream of pure brilliance that it is:-)

Reviewed by Nordette Adams
Reviewed on November 15, 2005
Wonderful similie. Brilliant. One of your best. ~~Nordette

Reviewed on November 15, 2005
clever you, kate; very well done! brava!

(((HUGS))) and much love (and continued prayers), your friend in america, karen lynn in texas. :D

Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on November 15, 2005
ohh my type of poetry
when you link the cycles of nature to human emotions!

great questions oh wise one :)
pax A

Reviewed by Debashish Haar
Reviewed on November 15, 2005
This poem has many ontological, nihilistic projections beyond its own two dimensional surface. While on surface it may be humor, but it is philosophical in binding water to so many things. "Water" is the GREAT central metaphor for the amorphous and the amorous at the same time, and those extended images just allow your poem to breathe many interpretations. A GREAT JOB!

D

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on November 15, 2005
Hahahahaha, you stayed tooooooo long on my page.....and I am sure it was the inspiration for this one.......hahahahahahahah...naughty girl YOU!!

LuuuuuuV Tinka!!

Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
guess cuz we're 98% composed of it...LOL

Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
Your creativity knows no bounds!;-)Excellent!

Eileen

Reviewed by Huda Orfali
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
Everyone still laughs here at the way I say Water
and today they laughed at the way I write tyre :)
Wonderful poem, Kate
love and peace

Reviewed by Dawn Richerson
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
thanks for the shower of wisdom. Dawn

Reviewed by Janet Parker
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
I love this comparison between water and love. Did you know that sheep are afraid of "still water?" That's why Christ leads them beside it. I recently read that by drinking bottled water, we are not getting the chemicals we need that come from the tap. Excellent write, Kate. xxxooo

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
wouldn't have it any other way ;)

very clever, Kate ...

Reviewed by Jane Rodway (Reader)
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
Hmmmmmm, well they say water and elevator dreams mean sex....hmm, does make you wonder!

Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
Erm..You have a water bed? You shag out in the rain? Bath? Shower?

Love love changes everything..........

Did you know our brains are made of fat?

And this has put mine in a mucking fuddle..

Reviewed by Sandi Schraut
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
Wonderful! "giggle" wouldn't have thought of this, I was once told, "you poets will write about everything" And its true! Loved this Sandi

Reviewed by KJ McPhee
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
i saw under-the-microscope images recently of good quality water; up close it's floral-looking. The poor quality water looks like sh*t!
Lots of mineral, Highland water, ions and aeons of love await every wet person.... sing in the rain, kate! k

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
Great comparison poetry and so well matched now that I think of it love and water have so many or the same attributes. Yea I've been wet a few times myself Sweet Kate so I know what you mean.

Felix

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
Me thinks you are all wet on this one. But it is a pain in the back side when it turns loose its power.

Reviewed by F William Broome
Reviewed on November 14, 2005
You have a goodun' here, and as soon as my brain dries out,
I'll get back to you on it. It has set me a-pondering! - Bill



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