WATER FAERIES AREN’T MERMAIDS…
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All faeries have colors and wings,
They are such delicate things…
But let a male draw
And soon a flaw
Shows faeries without clothing!
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Mermaids and faeries both
Need not have gender growth…
Stay light and fair
You faeries in air,
Stay away from the man whose an oaf!
–Jonathan Caswell
WATER FAERIES IN DISGUISE
Water Faeries wait in lower grassy fields,
Clothed as low mist in eventide…
Condensation rising cooler nights yield
Fuzzy cloaks where faeries would abide.
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In amongst the grasses where little folk stay
Faeries hunt blessings neighborly…
Cooler autumn evenings replace warmer days,
We see these special folk but rarely!
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Many don’t believe in sprite, faerie or faun,
Seems that science has put them away…
But those believers with a child-like heart
If they are careful–may see them come out to play.
–Jonathan Caswell
WATER FAERIES WINTER UNDER
Where do water faeries go,
When weather turns cold with snow…
They find it nice
Underneath the ice,
Until springs thaw returns water flow.
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I’m sure everybody has seen
Open water in winter that steams…
Water faeries will dance
In sudden romance,
While sunlight keeps the opening ice-clean.
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All that one could wish,
Is to sleep with the turtles and fish…
Til the springtime warms
The heart of swarms
Of faeries and flies feverish.
–Jonathan Caswell
Ice Fairy, from Bing images (see the open water?)
MORNING VESPERS
Water vapors arise in air,
Cooler temperatures compare…
Waters warmer
Than the former,
Faeries have light silver hair!
–Jonathan Caswell
(MSN IMAGES)
WHERE ARE THE FAERIES?
He’d love to see a faerie,
Cute and spiritedly merry…
But he sleeps in too late
To participate
In watching the river mist tarry.
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By the time he is awake,
The marshes have begun to bake…
All faeries are gone,
Evaporated along
With the splash of a motorboat’s wake.
–Jonathan Caswell
(MSN IMAGES)
By the Mighty Mumford 