The Waterfall

I am  a waterfall  , cascading , descending , trickling  down
all over your sunkissed shoulders  , and a hundred bare thoughts .
Smell me , A delicate fragrance like  that of drying  cotton linen
perched on the line of  an early Spring  morn.
Hear me .Listen to my  swish-swoosh  sound 
a distant echo of a babbling brook within your silence.
Taste me . Quench your thirst from the smooth  outpour of  my waters. 
Have me . Have all I own , rippled  palettes  where I stirred 
crimsons , whites and blues , to give you lilacs .
Moist velvet lilacs that  tickle softly  along your back ,
between your toes ,against  the arms of your resistance. 
Feel me, feel my  fresh gushes extinguish  embers
which  burned  too quick your camping hammock
and ripped you  off a million candle dreams.
Let me be . Let me become the bed of promise in your lone night.
Let me stay . I'll stay , I sway  and play. Like a mandarin's lullaby , 
I'll rock you slowly  into sleep beneath a canopy of  forest trees.
I am the  waterfall , where once in yesterday  your fingers tossed 
the last of of coins , with atheistic need.
Here on the edge , I'm waiting for you , to grant your wish and your release.
Till you return I keep on falling , flowing  down freely from mountain creeks.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016


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Date: 4/14/2016 9:23:00 AM
Hi Charmaine, A great write. Presentation is outstanding. Poem is sound with rich imagery & excellent literature. i loved it...............hugs.~7~.
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Date: 3/26/2016 4:01:00 PM
Simply gorgeous language and outstanding imagery! Excellent personification. Best wishes, Keith
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Date: 3/24/2016 8:13:00 PM
"rippled palettes where I stirred crimsons , whites and blues , to give you lilacs " LOVE this Charmaine! So good! Somehow it combines a kind of innocence with pure sensuality. Nice contrast. Hope you have a good weekend. Happy early Easter to you. Cyndi
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Date: 3/23/2016 1:12:00 PM
This waterfall sure knows how to appeal to the senses, Charm! It flows with promise of things to come; for those who believe nothing is impossible. #7 ~ Regards // paul
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Date: 3/21/2016 8:46:00 AM
- Really beautiful written, Charmaine - I wish you a lovely Easter :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 3/20/2016 9:40:00 PM
What a magical waterfall this is, in a free flowing piece. I'd like to be where those rippled palettes stirred ... unsure of whether more romantic or more healing, but in any case, your mind travels to some envious places. I think the one part that really made me pause was ... "the last of coins, with atheistic need" ... I was curious about that bit.
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Charmaine Chircop
Date: 3/21/2016 8:01:00 AM
Oh tnks for asking re the last of coins. Somehow the waterfall made me think of fontana di trevi, where people toss their coin to gamble a wish.. Some do it cuz they believe in it being gramted, but others toss it even though knowing their wish is close to impossible... I was thinking of a beong tossing his coin in the waterfall, yearning for that same waterfall to be his...Waterfall (personified of course )... Tnks for reading it.
Date: 3/20/2016 8:54:00 PM
I like the additions : )
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Date: 3/20/2016 4:58:00 PM
This is a refreshing drink! Well done as always.
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Date: 3/20/2016 2:40:00 PM
Charma, you are one of the queens of romance and enchantment here. This is a very good example of WHY!!!
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Date: 3/19/2016 9:28:00 PM
So soft, loving, and flowing. So many enchanting lines Charma... Sunkist shoulders and bare thoughts...love that...I didn't want the seduction to end... A fave
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Charmaine Chircop
Date: 3/20/2016 4:23:00 AM
hundred bare thoughts..I was referring to the being when He/ She is able to think freely without being interrupted by this busy life and all its demands..tnks
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Tim Smith
Date: 3/19/2016 10:17:00 PM
I know with the bare thoughts....typing on phone...must have auto corrected : )
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Charmaine Chircop
Date: 3/19/2016 10:14:00 PM
I know that..even here..But I wasnt thinking of orange skinned being but of a being exposed to the sun and in need of a fresh waterfall..over him/her.B-)
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Tim Smith
Date: 3/19/2016 10:02:00 PM
Sunkist is a type of orange here : )
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Charmaine Chircop
Date: 3/19/2016 9:49:00 PM
It is sunkissed..On the isle We had a drink called Sunkist though : )
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Charmaine Chircop
Date: 3/19/2016 9:44:00 PM
Tnks for reading... I wasnt thinking of the waterfall as in seduction.but more as in cleansing,and loving innocent and purely... .Tnks for stopping by and reading
Date: 3/19/2016 8:52:00 PM
Beautiful! Like a meditation on nature's gifts.
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Charmaine Chircop
Date: 3/19/2016 9:47:00 PM
Tnks Tom
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