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
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