Adventureriver Poems | Examples

The River Sea

THE   RIVER   SEA

Even from islands of the Antilles -
Taking Pinzon’s route to El Dorado
In  the  very foothills of the Andes
And its golden  yellow meadow.
 
Death-dealing its piranha and crocodile;   
Life-giving, the earth’s river-daughter -
With  its fast bore fierce and tidal  -
Floods half a continent with water,

Floods half the planet with oxygen.
Large ocean ships sail up it free.
Probes fresh lobes far into salt ocean. 
To Brazilians it is   - The River Sea.  

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NOTE

Vicente Yanez Pinzon was the first European 
to visit the Amazon in 1500

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Entered in Barbara Gorelick's Contest  "A River Runs Through It"