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...

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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...

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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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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...

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Underneath the tumult
  and toil of our 
urban lives
    Flows a river of peace
   Every Friday night 
we bathe...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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