Creative Challenge

 I recently accepted a challenge from a creative friend to 'Sculpt or form stones smoothed by water'.  For a day or so, I contemplated the challenge and could not see how I was going to sculpt stones and although the image was appealing, the idea of trying to re-create stones in this way just didn't grab me.  Then I thought about it more loosely, and realised that I could form stones with words.........

I am stone, sitting

proudly on the riverbed

never to be moved

 

Water gurgles round

me; laughing and playing, but

I have work to do

 

My sharp edges and

solid face distance the world

I shall not be moved

 

Still the water plays on,

in constant flux, now fast,

now slow, always moving

 

Time passes, I feel

less certain, less defined, still

on the riverbed

 

Water gurgles round

me, laughing, smoothing, for we

are both in motion