Best Waterfalls Poems
spilling mother’s milk
Nature’s bounty feeds her child -
river’s youth fades fast
Susan Ashley
April 29, 2020
~ Fourth Place ~
Premiere Contest: Hi-Ku (5)
Sponsor: Brian Strand
dazzling whites
they cascade on green heights
spectacular curtains that inspire
as I go down with flow of life’s musical lyre
I’ll sing the lullabies of dreams which never tire
refreshing the plaintive minds and souls
listen to summer calls
waterfalls
June 14, 2014 11.15pm
Note:
Form of Poem: “Trois-Par-Huit Poem”
First Place
Contest: A poem you've not entered in a contest#10
Judged:8/1/2014
Sponsor: Poet PD
Happy solitude.
Waterfall of dreams crashing
upon my heart's gates.
In your absence the ink thirsts in barren land,
in your presence it sings like nightingales.
Like waterfalls it flows in your majesty,
drifting to a bridge connecting our hearts.
Silent One
13 February 2018
Example for Romantic charm in 4 lines
If we could run away, where would we go,
We could seek out every corner, high and low,
In sweet embrace, we should forever stay,
Waterfalls in rainbows where we shall play.
Upon midnight hour when lovers do caress,
All fears fading, shall be nothing to confess,
We'll hold each other tight never letting go,
I'll sing you love songs just so you may know.
Within midnight romance and moon so bright,
We shall forever know our love is right,
Upon morn's waking hours our hearts shall beat,
Tasting love's dessert, be it ever so sweet.
Treasures of passion blessing our new home
We living in paradise, no need to roam
So with love's purest truth let us now dwell
Sweet memories our children may later tell.
Collaboration by Rick Keeble and Robert J. Lindley
have I ever told you that... a picture crystallized in my heart~
an evening, mesmerizing starlit sky,
two youngsters ~ ardently absorbed in each other.
you narrated an entire story ~ with so much zeal~
a spellbound account of love and loss - did not have slightest idea what loss really meant!
I was a captive listener!
what magic did you instill with your hypnotizing voice?
became a priceless memory I could never erase.
have I ever told you that ...I remember an evening of strolling back together
by a desolate narrow village-street...from a favourite musical...
dark noiseless night.. stars mysteriously blinking...
tall trees apprehensively watching,
just the two of us... didn’t hold hands,
walking straight into the night...as if in a trance..
the sight never faded away!
have I ever told you that ...a miraculous evening ~ never slipped away
in front of a mighty waterfalls, an undeniable witness of our bond,
raining uninterrupted...rain and the falls...flooded, drenched both of us,
never witnessed pouring rain the way I did...
my heart never pulsated like the way it did..,
a ruby-crowned kinglet crooned inside me,
heart leapt and almost burst with a sensation of craziest happiness,
rapt with profound sadness..
with the anticipation of losing you.
Reminiscences transformed into.... dreams~
one pearl gets found from thousands of seashells, found my pearls in the ocean of memories.
November 4, 2020
For "Have I Ever Told You That" Poetry Contest
Sponsor: John Lawless
farms await bony hands of want
land thirsty for full bodied Love
what strength is needed to grow the maize
whilst shadows roam streets in haze
leaves like notes blow across ferocious Falls
how long can darkness juggle its balls
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balls of the clown are tired of work
calm Falls continue their crystal splash cries
shadows between trees rustle like hungry
beggars
maize aromas ripe fill air for inhalation
yellow Earth bursts fiery gore
hands of farmworkers touch Lushness of Lore
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Roaring torrents go tumbling down
Splashing beads of clear tiny crowns.
Sparkling tears from heaven above,
Lathering pools of cleansing love.
Frothy white, like a snowy dove,
Rushing waters that push and shove.
Prism rainbows gleaming above,
God's handiwork for his beloved.
Cascading falls, deafening sound,
Earth's paradise, beauty unbound.
© 07-10-2012
Revised: 02-27-2013
100% Nature Contest
Headwaters,
Of the world’s flowing souls,
Cresting to flight and misting rainbows.
Everyone.
Searching for another.
To endure sacrifices behold,
Cascading
Heart’s ladles dip into
Basins of memories in plunge pools.
Waterfalls,
From the rapids of youth,
To the flat waters of golden years
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Contest: Some Form of Crystalline
Form: Verse : Parallelogram de Crystalline
11.02.14
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Received an NA in the above contest.
Entered in Edward Ebbs's contest: Only for those NA's on 01.23.16
The contest calls for an explanation of what the poem means to the author:
This poem is a summary of life.
Headwaters=birth,
Cresting=growing up,
misting=your effect on others and the world,
'searching for another'=could be spouse, money, God, or just yourself, etc,
Sacrifices=what you traded for what you wanted,
cascading=life, time goes by so fast
Once you reach old age, hopefully your waters are calm (flat), and not still turbulent or made turbulent due to regret from choices and the trades you made in youth.
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 then, almost as quickly, this despoiler settles
and begins to accumulate in multitudes
of rippling bubbles and froth
immediately bleeding onto the embankment
promptly losing much of its potential goodness
swooshed as sucking sounds
into the wild soils of the firmament.
What survives roams free and for awhile
flows in any direction, with no beginning, no end
as the river turns into riverlets
Eddying on without any selected steering.
The rains that used to drip down from the mountain top
cry to see the diversions of the most glorious river
dissipate and dry up knowing that the drought
which has appeared can not adequately supply
sustenance to a parched soil.
For that sunbaked soil to be reclaimed
the river must continue to extend its reach
and water the seeds of new growth.
and use its silt to fertilize the new life
that waits anticipating its turn
in creation's timetable.
CAK 6-04-2012 Revised 6-18-2013
Love is like a waterfall that flows forever.
A relationship of true love in different directions.
Through the steep, sharp and crooked lines of rocks
Are unpredictable challenges that lovers need to face to prove its resilience.
Any relationship can be powerful.
Any relationship can also be gentle, but with vigor.
In many rainforests where there are hidden
Waterfalls unnoticed, there is beauty beyond reach.
These waterfalls offer beauty with multitude of trials
Represented by warm and cold temperatures.
Waterfalls, like love, are never-ending cycles of life's harmony and ceaseless serenity.
Waterfalls, like wind, are enveloped above and below the pressures of air.
Soft or strong tides are felt beneath the waterlines of affection and devotion.
Time may change, but waterfalls will always dispense
Peace to those who will search for it.
Feel it.
Because these waterfalls will always stay lovely, elastic and dynamic.
We pray that this relationship will be like waterfalls...
Everlasting, strong, unselfish and pure.
Waterfalls
They glide down and past, grand
Just like Queens, in long flowing silk robes...
What a sight!
They bear majesty too
Just like Kings, seated rightly on thrones.
Fall Segments -
They wait to take their place,
Not unlike princes, set to take charge
Waterfalls
They still are their own selves -
And live to calm minds of Earth’s beings…
*Fall segments are tiny tributaries of Waterfalls.
Form - Crystalline - 3/6/9
Breath taking white stalactite filled plateaus
like white frozen waterfalls
Pamukkalle* salts heal
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Pamukkale ::
The site is an official World Heritage Site because of its uniqueness and value of natural importance.
Waters so clear, alive and so near
In your heart flows dear, waves that you hear
Waters running fast, from the top so high
Waters teeming with gust, down the bed go by
Waterfalls that rush, in your heart floats
Tickles like needles, cools and not bloats
Waterfalls in a flash, inspires with hush
Fiddles and wiggles, soothes with gush
Waterfalls in our eyes, in our minds stay alive
Waters day and night, falls like bee's hive
Joy in depths that spread, waters of life reveal
Waters from falls and jars, spring or cold, warms and heal
Falls made by nature
Flowing over rocks of green
Misty rainbow scenes