1) Riverbed Stone

Find a river stone, smooth and rounded

Take it home and put it in a vice

Scrape and sand, bend and chip

Hours on end become days

The stone compressed now re-formed

Golden dust covers the workshop floor

When darkness falls the stone a-lights

To the river return once more

Its straightened edges, defined so slow

Sharp and jagged, nooks and crannies

The wandering water does now flow

Through dales and valleys

The rushing flow, its kiss so cool

Upon the sanded stone

Now days now weeks now months go by

Seasons turn around the stone

And edges corners handles notes

All soften weather bend and slow

Sunlight glitters on the river-bed stone

Smoothed by Grace and the eternal flow

Take comfort take flight take a riverbed stone