Best Floodwaters Poems

my head touches the pillow
as gentle rain lulls me 
and i just want to   s
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rain obscures distance

hides beauty that lies ahead

floodwaters leave soon



(June 2nd, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin USA)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Pedaling along river drive
empty plastic grocery bags
fluttered and flapped from tree branches
like lost battle surrender flags
that line the drought-stricken river.
Their interspersed clings reminded
me of inundated levels
this now anemic river reached;
where once the floodwaters surged south
along its journey to the sea
its now imperceptive flow
struggles, its intimate's...

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Sawbill Bay UFO Sighting 

Stranger than fiction, fraught with mischief,
To deceive impressionable minds of gullible people:
Who desperately want to believe in conspiracies,
And alien abductions and out of body experiences,
As was the UFO sighting on the Floodwaters, in 1950.

It happened on a peaceful summer’s day;
When a...

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Holy climate change, Batman
  Galloping glacier melt, Robin
Rising seas and floodwaters, Batman
  Coastal towns underground, Robin

Cavalier carbon emissions, Batman
  Clueless coal mine re-openings, Robin
Tons of trapped atmospheric pollutants, Batman
  Anti-intellectual animadversion against science, Robin...

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My dreams, forgotten.
Cast away like a broken toy. 

See my face,
as I collapse to my knees,
dropping from dispair and disbelief.

The letter I am holding,
scribbled in scarlet ink,
trembles ever so slightly.

Look into my eyes,
as they overflow.
Look into the flood waters,
grey green, murky from little sleep.

The pain,...

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Precipice

Arizona cliffs
Above rippling waters' rush.
Floodwaters spill out.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 13, 2009...

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Underneath the tumult
  and toil of our 
urban lives
    Flows a river of peace
   Every Friday night 
we bathe in its waters 
   Eyes gazing upward 
Find solace in the ineffable
The power that preserves 
echoes through our...

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Impatient floodwaters at dams
Waiting for shutters to open, 
A hodgepodge of puppets
Excited to perform: at deep slumber, 
Waiting for my eyes to close, 
The naughty byproducts of my brain!

I fly, glide: liberating!
I sing with a celebrity: enthralling!
I reach a different galaxy: wondering!
I flow with a...

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The past was locked in with very little 'right of passage'.                                  ...

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Hysteria was absent for awhile
As hurricane Irma spiraled ashore
The hollow eye passed us mile after mile
'Til the kaleidoscope began once more

Thoughts of the apocalypse came to mind -
All that we saw or could see was in flight
Our eyes closed - afraid of what we may...

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floodwaters pour out my ears
like some Black Plague fountain
with spitting angels
life can be hard to look at
images spilling into boots
filling with blood and ignorance
everyone a con artist of some sort
on the inside if not the outside
can't be avoided even for saints
maybe worse for them
with their...

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ancient ancestor's fervently sought
a truth , neither to be traded or bought
to discover , uncover , recover the mold
a beginning , spinning , facing sarcasm cold

learned men had to cypher , code their belief
undaunted critisisms , they found no relief
from those of power , whom...

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“Britches”, Is At It Again!
By: Tom Wright
7/17/2006

Katrina came ashore
Sparing scarcely a palm,
Rains deluge came pelting,
Days later, the calm;

Rising floodwaters deposited
All its ill-gotten debris,
The ravaged were left floating
Or deposited in a tree.

People were seen clinging
To life on one’s rooftop,
While rescuers in their boats
Seemed too busy to...

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Fall Creek Falls and
ripples out and
gives birth to a
million mosses.

Mystical flora 
rises dozens of 
meters around us and
the trees’ whispering 
leaves bestow shade
even as blades of grass
shroud an ant army.

Boulder juts out
side of mountain
Father Time’s
furtive and wrinkled
and weathering
majestic face of granite
broad, turned boldly
against blue sky.

Sticks...

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