OSI - Prompt #59: Live Water

spilling down the canyon
through beavers' dam, tumbling down
over rocks and stones
into quiet pools
where trout linger,
huddled 'neath
birch roots, pouring out
in this gentle creek
where I sit, cooling my feet
listening to its song

OSI - Prompt #58: Listening

Listen

Clouds float by below

behind me, baby's giggles,

like water out of

a spring, carry me forward,

my son and wife expecting