Short Floodwaters Poems

Precipice

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

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

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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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Fire can keep off the way,
Water can't block the way

Fires can be put out with water
Water can't be destroyed by fire

Wildfires and Floodwaters
Surround us songs of Love

Kisses can't be tamed
either or together....

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Tears fall like cold rain
Sliding down dry, tender cheeks
As though thin ice caved

As though floodwaters
Prisoner to a mighty dam
Is captive no more

As though chained feelings
Cool a flaming, fettered soul
Now free to grasp hands
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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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she kept on trying to calm her child down
crossing the floodwaters to reach the shore
while she held him high above her head
she almost drowned in that raging flow of water

she kept on trying to calm her child down
keeping her hopes high for the sake of child
to see him live a future she knows is not protected
but must give him one at the cost of her own life...

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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 exposed:
river-bottom, water-worn rocks
sit like petrified bowler hats....

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