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ELECTRIFIED AND ALIVE

Synchronized Swimming in an Infinity Pool

Body’s water ballet with Psyche — even while we’re walking a rocky path

1 min readSep 6, 2023

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Electrical arcing is when electricity jumps from one connection to another.

— Clover Electric

Clover has also earned the symbolic meaning of hope, partially because it has been found in areas where it hadn’t existed before.

FlowerFabulous

Swimming butterfly
Soul’s arms arc, sparks fly skyward
Strength growing each length
Body’s crawl-stroke — blue hot, wired
Electrified, I’m alive

Lane lines sprout clover
Lightning wafts in the water
Wishes dart like fish
Despair’s sudden shock — survived!
Hope holds me afloat, re-birthed

Trust is my kick board
Synchronized rest and power
Bubbles blown as hymn
Downpours of gratitude’s light –
pooling, at last infinite

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Jenine Bsharah Baines
Jenine Bsharah Baines

Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines

J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself

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