Best Eddying Poems

sea-urchins in rock pools –  
the flesh, a delicacy – 
sparkle – 
protected from the ocean
where anemones proliferate – 
by a mist-glistening  
heart shaped rock:
the keeper of my secrets – 

a cache of memories 
of mornings snorkelling
surface
eddy on the periphery 
—homesick for my...

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When the pall of gloom overcasts my mind
And at cross roads bewildered as I stand
I tell myself
This shall pass

When my mind is full of fear
And I find no single soul to share
I tell myself
This too shall pass

When darkness invades my abode
And there is not even...

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Translation of Les Moulins de mon Cœur-THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by T. Wignesan

(For the orignal text in French by Eddy MARNAY : see here below. The English version by Marilyn and Alan BERGMAN differs considerably from the French original, but arguably it could lay...

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WATERFALLS, RIVERS AND DROUGHT

The frenzied forces of cold, icy streams
detonate explosively on the rocks below.
Their rapid currents wreak havoc 
on logjams caught in crevasses beneath
the mist and rainbowed spray.

We blink in awe to see this
spectacular remonstration 
of pretentious power abruptly
become whirling vortexes
of descending splash downs.

But...

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A prodigious flock of seagulls
float seemingly, effortlessly
on a winter frigid river
like miniature polar floes.
Their harsh wailing and squawking calls
are muffled by the roaring sound
of cascade from an old dam.
Their idiosyncratic moves
manifest aquatic prowess:
Their twirling, swirling, eddying
against the current as though fixed
to each molecule of water
until...

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Mother Nature, divine and yet so whimsical
Her flowing streams fall warm, healing and abiding   
A darkened blue-green sea, maroon and sapphire shores,  
cradle us asleep, with your gentle waves 
harboring the dour rude awakenings
when eddying rapids currented by the tide
Consume the uncertainty...

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In her slippery salmon swim
    And red streaked Crawdads chute
    Into her eddying pools
    To stare at her from beneath rocks.
    Whitewater rapids challenge men
    To stand against her torrential...

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from over the sea
waves clash, turmoil eddying -
sailboats search haven

...

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The old Hittite came through the gate
Battle sharp and dripping
With the blackness of an Ethiopian night
The Kingdom of Zion to replicate
The compass star of David's sight
And through that gate walked with him
A destiny invisible of all the world
The crisis of a man by sin made...

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                                  The fear of...

      being thought of...

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Hurricane Epic Flooding

Alerts; emergency evacuation
is advised for people to leave their homes.
Some people stayed; 
secured and board up windows,
sandbags against the doors.

Prayers were said;

     “We will be OK, no reason to leave.”

 were their replies.

Shadow of darkness slowly crawled over the...

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Nobody told me freedom was so cold,
When I tore myself away
From the uneventful warmth
Of an ordinary family …

Thrashing about me in my confusion.
Wounding anyone who cared …
The tears slashing my mother’s face
Like razor blades …

But I had to get away.
Feel the wind of freedom …
Feel...

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Eddying in a commotion of color, 
fall's dispensation of red, green and gold; 
blended with Zephyrs' mysterious rhythms, 
a stately ballet that never grows old. 

Spread 'cross the firmament planets are spinning, 
silently, cold and majestically clear; 
gliding through eons in preordained tempos, 
gracing the...

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EXFOLIATION, I AM      
 
In my advanced age am I but 
       The castoff--remnants 
Of a vitality that once was and has  been pushed aside?
      Am I only...

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Foggily out of cryostasis, I come ...

A slow, painful waking to a vessel that's shaking
         from the stress of its increasing mass,
And at once I'm made sure that it's all premature,
      ...

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