Long Floodwaters Poems

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

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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...

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

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The floodwaters shimmer with opalescence in the morning sun
The torrential rain finally comes to a halt

In the stillness of it all floats the body of the banker’s son
Six feet above-ground, his grave on the asphalt

Birds...

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Red-Crested Sampan

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Shariful Alam
June 10, 2025
Hudson, New York
United States of America

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If by chance we meet again someday,
If desire brings us close once more,
I’ll breathe deeply again at the foot of the mountain,
Smear your gentle gaze across...

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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...

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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...

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Tympani, beat tremendous!
Like thunder roll above!
Dark matter a-tenebrous;
Knowest thou of love?

Ah, young master. In good time!
Riddles, rivers, rhyme!
Griddle, fiddle, sugar, slime.
Covert cold cut chime.

All right, sir, but in earnest;
Full, brass bull, trull, wool?
Summertime, hot clime,...

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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...

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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...

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Generation, slide like land?
Fall into the sea?
Toil, tamarind! Much is planned!
So then, file my plea!

Weather, looking bad of late.
Volcanic my hate!
Cross the world or just the strait?
Better set the date!

Thunder, roll above us all!
Floodwaters to...

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In silence, 
The soul cries,
In the tranquil of the night the soul searches,
It is saddled with a plethora of questions,
It desires to see through the veil.

What am I made for?
The soul asks,
What is this that...

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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...

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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...

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When he cooed, doves flew to him
  When he smiled, the skies brightened
When he sighed, the seas stirred
  When he signaled, worlds were enlightened

They say he never raised his voice
  Never became...

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Water color painting
Lightest blues, greens, 
whites, and grays
April folly in delicate array

God's unique take on spring
Still waters mirror the trees
Who are surrounded by floodwaters.
Some up to their knees

All of those winter snows
Melted around houses and...

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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...

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