It glows slowly in the sunlight and smoothly stays where it is for day, night and weeks
and as humans walk casually onto it, it makes a calm but loud noise 'Splash'

Every day and night it gets bigger and bigger
Suddenly until it makes a big pond where ducks, swans and birds
swim round and catch their prey

In the winter it freezes
and freezes
until it goes hard and people ice-skate across
but then it unfreezes and people can't slide around
and instead it has many fish gliding underneath it.

It is also a way from river to sea
It begins in mountains and makes its way down to the open oceans.

Water is many things at many times to many creatures