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Fluvial Poems

While Oboes Played Strings were Strummed

...Welo and Shewa 
and the Opals of the Region
Darkwin Clouds damped the outdoor festivities leading
the onlookers to go indoors. There these to beautiful women
stood modeling there wears there beau...

Categories: fluvial, engagement, film, hip hop,
Form: Ballade

Planet in pluvial fluvial flux

...
Planet in flux…it sucks

No refuge..Scrooge rules..

Stooges subterfuge deluge..

Fossil fuel fools..

Poleaxes..then relaxes…

As the earth burns..

As it turns..on its axis..

*****...

Categories: fluvial, nature, planet, pollution,
Form: Free verse

Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks

...Lovely weather for Dunners' ducks (tongue in cheek peek at Dunedin's historic deluge)


"Stares upstairs..

Angels’ weeing above..

Be a good chap..

Show some love bruv..

Turn off the ta...

Categories: fluvial, environment, nature, rain,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The River

...I've made to many wishes
I've screamed curses and prayers out into the wind 
Nothing left but whispers in the palms of my hands now
Fuzzy remnants of memories fall apart and come together in my mi...

Categories: fluvial, bereavement, child, death, grief,
Form: Free verse

From My Prison Cell

...Another moment goes by, another monumental stride
day by day, year by year wind-borne dreams
cascade amongst perpetual memories, gifts of light
that penetrates through the windows of time, the cla...

Categories: fluvial, fate, hope,
Form: Haibun

Minuanetta- Your Love Is Like a Reverie

...Your LOVE is like an adoring reverie,
               like pebbles on a shore you surface me-
Like a tide in the sand you set me free,
     you bring healing to this heart’s TRIBUTARY.
You flo...

Categories: fluvial, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme

Pearl of the Orient

...Seven thousand islands grace the shore
as narra trees arise , sun -dressed
with ripples humming a native folksong--
gracious the womenfolk, caressed
by Philippine beaches ever idyllic--
...

Categories: fluvial, environment, home, ocean,
Form: Free verse

Watching Our Warts

...Sloping down in gold pursuit 
of a bruised city,
sons of nameless fathers
were changing the generic mandate.

I am becoming fluvial 
going on a muted odyssey
to find unmarked graves.

Slaughtering 
y...

Categories: fluvial, art,
Form: ABC

Looking In

...Moment by moment
         day by day,
         year by year.
         Wind-borne dreams
         cascading amongst
         perpetual memories,
         gifts of light that
         penetrates...

Categories: fluvial,
Form: Narrative