Watching the River Run

We hear the steady drip, drip, drips

as melting snow turns to rivulets

racing down the mountainside

chasing along road’s edge in steady stream

to join the roaring river below.

What was once a quiet estuary

turns into churning white water

crashing over rocks and boulders

combining with larger waterways

on their quest to mesh with the sea.

We view the rising river

filling inlets and backwashes,

observe scores of riverbank trees

submerged to their knees

awaiting runoff to slow

and surge to recede.

There’s comfort found days like this

in the knowledge that somehow

no matter how much things change

some still remain the same.

© Ginny Brannan 2017

Day 12 NaPoWriMo Challenge was to use Rhetorical Devices of Assonance and Alliteration:

Assonance is a resemblance of sound, particularly vowel sounds, occurring in words of close proximity: i.e. trees, knees, recede

Alliteration: the repetition of a sound, especially a consonant, for rhetorical or poetic effect: i.e. rivulets racing, roaring river, steady stream.

Not too heavy on either, but a small sampling of both.