river

blue

the river

the river streaming

down from the sky ~ the beauty

in life’s suffering

Inspiration - Photo: Sushma Verma/ Rahul Krishna 

The Buddha's -  'Life is suffering'

& Oscar Wilde's "To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”  - 

The River - A Myth?

The source, identity and the fate of the sacred river Saraswati, Sindhu and perhaps several others, which flowed from the mountains to the oceans–.... Some recent research says River Saraswati is a myth...Could it be?

does the mountains

or the oceans know

the truth of the vanishing rivers ~

the rumble of their waters

in the silence of this moment “ The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.” ~  Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Read more: http://www.stephen-knapp.com/recent_research_on_the_sarasvati_river.htm

http://www.gsbkerala.com/saraswati.htm

Photo courtesy: A dry river near Darcha in India. Ankit Solanki, Flickr Creative Commons  as per original copyright at:

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/03/14/are-we-running-out-of-water/

The river and flowers by the river

estuary’s calm

reflecting its path

the river, clear

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it~ Norman Maclean

morning glories

 the god who hides  

now and then

"How I long to see

among dawn flowers,

the face of God."

~  Matsuo Basho

Photo courtesy: as per original copyright at:

http://www.eoearth.org/article/Estuary