a boat shaped vessel with room for one
when you clamber into a bath you are captain, crew, passenger
rolled into one
yet baths require no special skills
nor do they stand on ceremony; in this they are like some beaches:
dress is entirely optional
entering a bath you enter a topsy-turvy world where water fills the craft
not surrounds it — though baths will never sink
head back, you settle down but are going nowhere: baths have no destinations nor sails
yet people have been known to drift off in baths emerging rosy-skinned
and luminous as if fresh from a voyage
*pic courtesy of Pinterest
John Malone 
Water amidships, Captain! 😂
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Lol; one from the archives, Worms — and a companion piece to ‘Showers’: they were published in a poetry book alongside each other —
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🙂. Hey, I was going through a briefcase full of old paperwork today and I found a poem I wrote at age 18 called “Silver Hair”. It’s quite topical after our conversation about wrinkles the other day. I might post it later.
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yes do: it’ll be fun to see the young Worms in action 🙂
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it’ll be interesting to see, Worms, which of the two poems — they were published beside each other — receives the more comments and then try to work out why 🙂
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A triumph from the very first wave. I loved this one. I am taking my sunken bath back to the manufacturers though, it must be faulty! 😂
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thank you, Hobbo: I wonder if people still take baths; there should be an International Day of the Bath to celebrate its many benefits 🙂
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I often emerge like a prune
having drifed far too long 🌊😎
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hahaha the prune is not a good look, David 🙂 good to hear from you 🙂
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Thanks John.
Been busy spring cleaning 🏡
Not much else to do during an
endless lock down. That and
having the occasional bath
time with my rubber ducky🦆
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Lol, David; you must be in Melbourne then or south-west Sydney,; I sympathisze fully: I would have trouble handling a lockdown with or without my rubber ducky 🙂
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I’m deep in Pandemic Dan Andrews
territory. But I can’t complain, being
out in the Dandenong Ranges, were
lock down only applies to them big
city slickers 🔒😎
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you’re in a beautiful area, David; it’s like being in a different country to Melbourne 🙂
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With plenty of free firewood
just lying around after a recent
storm 🔥😎👍
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you’re leading the good life, David; and a bath to boot 🙂
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That reminds me, John …
Thanks for passing on the rainy
weather from South Australia.
By simply standing in the garden
I’m having a good shower ☔😎
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you’re welcome, David — though it’s more shower than bath 🙂
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It’s settled. I will take up reading in the tub.
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I’ve done a lot of that in my time, Bob ; good to hear it 🙂
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ahoy! i am a huge fan of baths and often drift off and fall asleep in the bath, headed out to sea. in some cultures, the bath has a very distinct ritual –
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good to hear it, Beth ; having a bath is a form of meditation: a nation that bathes is at ease with itself 🙂
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After reading this, I’ll have to give baths a second thought. A voyage with no beginning or destination.
How fascinating.
And rosy-skinned could be the new me.
Oh and there could be lots of bubbles. Pop – pop!
Elegant and delightful, John. 🙂
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Beautiful work
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thanks Kaycee —
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Those last two lines are excellent!
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