Best Flood Poems

I crossed my legs but there was a flood
Blushing red I hope folks understood
But my waters had burst
And the baby's my first
Guess I'm ready to start motherhood!

NOT FOR CONTEST

WRITTEN on 27TH August 2016 BY JAN ALLISON

My babe arrived as hungry as a horse
As a good...

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There may be a flood in the Isle of Man
From the bladder of poetry Jan
There is no denying
Inco pads I’ll be buying
I’ll judge the contest as fast as I can

27th April 2015...

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Time and rhyme, from somewhere it will shine.
Time and rhyme, will sometimes, be mine,
and when it does, it makes me high.
I want you to feel my long lasting sigh.

Please lie with me and taste these letters.
Make it better. Drink, and utter sounds that
make my lips...

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I open the door
and a flood gate of memories 
enter through the heart 

Dec. 26, 2018...

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As depression dominates your thoughts,
love morphs into the forbidden fruit.
And as your stomach twists into knots,
the weight of its absence grows acute.

You cringe inside, knowing life's unfair;
drowning in tears, you struggle to cope.
For suckling on the breasts of despair,
reality has drained you of hope.

When childhood...

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I am told the poetry's fine by some,
enjoyed perused that was their sum
and yet this flow.. Through mind and soul
I cannot own; not it's depth nor its Whole
no more than call my last breath back
it’s beyond the pale of life; for this wearied hack'
No eye...

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Water, water everywhere;
nothing here is stable,
but the moon sickle sinks
her tendrils into our hearts.
Roots reach
below the diluvian chaos,
anchor us
to the terra firma
that is down there, 
somewhere –
we sense it
in our memories,
in our dreams.

after a painting by Greg Edmondson.
From my new collection The Eden of Perhaps...

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On a drowsy dusk in summer the air suddenly stops to flow,
the trees seemed stilled fossils, their boughs drooping low.
The horizon turns a slate draped in clouds rising in layers,
the thunder splinters the falling sky, rattling me unaware. 

The swirling nimbus carries the storm in...

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A warning sounded on my phone -
An elongated beep -
So loud it must be meant to wake
Whoever is asleep…

Alerting me that there could be,
Within my current range,
A dangerous flash flood, which I
Found really kind of strange.

There is no river and no lake
For many miles around
And...

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Rivers In Flood

Sprung from headwaters, source hidden in the past or sometimes present,
Starting small, 
To begin the journey downstream to where it may go.

Restless, searching, agitated.
As it sweeps along, building in force, and speed and fullness.

Multiple currents, 
Deep, silent burdens brought up from the depths-...

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aka
Terry's Rush Hour Tube Trauma

A voice rose from a burning bush,
"O feel the contours of my tush!
Ounce for ounce
Cheeks will bounce
With just an itty-bitty push!"...

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Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain,
Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign,
Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day,
As trees bowing to gusting storms; erratically waltz and sway.

Houses naked with roofs blown, now ache, mangled and worn,
Where loss of...

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A Curtain of Rain
By Valerie D. Staton

A curtain of rain
Fell from graphite colored sky…
Cars are floating by...

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The beavers love rain.

They love water so much they

keep it where it fell....

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O' the case of Dorian
progressing through the sea,
battering the Bahamas
then shifting to a "three",
Have you seen the damage caused,
how islands lie in rubble?
Property and lives were lost
resulting from your trouble!

Now we wait so anxiously
to know the fullest measure
of this great calamity
ending in displeasure.
Soon will come...

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