SACRED WATERS
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    • Cwm Eleri
    • Recollection of a River
    • Fanahan's Well
  • RIVERS
    • Cwm Eleri
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Rivers in a Landscape
    • Relating to a River
    • The River Dee
  • GODS
    • Dionysus
    • For Brigid
    • Matrona and Welsh Mermaids
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Sulis and Coventina
  • WATER SPIRITS
    • Greek Nymphs
    • Mermaid
    • The Asrai
    • Ursilla and the Selkie
    • Sulis and Coventina
    • Water Mother
  • Other World Journeys
    • roos
    • The Waters of the Otherworld
  • MERERID -Guardian of the Well
    • Mererid and the Deluge
    • CANTRE'R GWAELOD
    • Well Maidens & Cup Bearers
    • MERERID

Water Mother


A flow of bronze, her fluid hair streaming
from the well-head of her thoughts of water,
fishes gliding on the waves she dreams
into being rippling out to swim
around her open heart. Below, the spreading
dolphin-tail of her head is echoed
like an image swelling in a liquid mirror
as she sits, eyes shut,  one leg folded
behind the other, her litheness broadening
to the delta where the ebb tides of her elemental
life fall in ripples down to skirt her knees:
the fountain's flume reflected in its pool.
In her cradling hands a lunar glow,
her pivot in the cosmic ebb and flow.


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  • *
    • Cwm Eleri
    • Recollection of a River
    • Fanahan's Well
  • RIVERS
    • Cwm Eleri
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Rivers in a Landscape
    • Relating to a River
    • The River Dee
  • GODS
    • Dionysus
    • For Brigid
    • Matrona and Welsh Mermaids
    • Healing and Defending Rivers
    • Sulis and Coventina
  • WATER SPIRITS
    • Greek Nymphs
    • Mermaid
    • The Asrai
    • Ursilla and the Selkie
    • Sulis and Coventina
    • Water Mother
  • Other World Journeys
    • roos
    • The Waters of the Otherworld
  • MERERID -Guardian of the Well
    • Mererid and the Deluge
    • CANTRE'R GWAELOD
    • Well Maidens & Cup Bearers
    • MERERID