Three short poems

She inched her way
into the warm translucent
water, until it encircled
her waist, its hands
caressing her.

She dived beneath
the water’s trembling surface and,
rising once more, swam –
swam into the arms of the sea,
her lover.

   ***

Her body uncoils
and greets
water’s surface
almost noiselessly –
diver.

   ***

 
She pivots and glides, describes
in her movements,
a flight from
and a striving towards –
dancer.

- Eduard Burle