Short Levees Poems

Rivers be rising,
Rain ain't gonna help at all,
Pray the levees hold....

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Rivers be rising,
Rain ain't gonna help at all,
Pray the levees hold....

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Freshet
Levees surrender
Overflowing; ambushing; destroying ~
Overwhelmed, teardrops augment the
Deluge...

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G ood in all
O ld and wise
D etermined he is

G lad to friend
O n time always
D epart I know

G od never levees
O  he loves
D voetion given does...

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Mallards dabble
in a smudge of water.

A silver flare
from the edge of night.

Muddy shadows dive
under stalky mounds.

Levees of light overflowing.
A gleaming pond 
knows itself
once more....

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Mallards sleepily dabble
in a smudge of water.
Then an emerging sun flares 
from its coatless face.
Like dipping ducks,
muddy shadows dive
under mounds of stalky flotsam.
Vista’s crack open
their levees of light....

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Haiku 68
		
		
	storms raging
	breached levees of sanity
	lives swept away
	
	
	rain-swollen river
	lost in swirling darkness
	madness in their eyes


	receding waters
	absent, some forgotten
	voids where they once were
	

	my awakened heart...

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My feet so heavy
My arms so heavy
My thoughts so heavy
My eyelids heavy levees
So no more tears.

Lying in bed
With a gun to my head
But I can't pull the trigger
Because my fingers are lead.

No use in crying
No matter what I do 
I keep living; I keep dying

I am a wasp in amber-- merely existing
But I will forever

I can't breathe...

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For thirty years, I made clouds in the sky.
Between abstract ideals, youth’s naiveté
became its own demand to keep a lie.
Whichever weakness colored those clouds gray,
romantic levees were all washed away,
but no corrosive puddle could defame
the kiss of rainbows lightning each last day.
For every summer’s storm has left the same
eroded scars, a memory’s braille of her name....

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The levees broke and the seas rolled in,
Killing brothers, sisters, and next of kin,
Police killed the innocent but denied the sin,            
Now new season lies round the bend,
God help New Orleans if it happens again!
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Contest:  Golden Gratitude
Very blessed that the Lord spare many  
from police brutality and the terrors of 
nature....

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Coots sleepily dabble
in a smudge of water.
Wisp-wings waft
on a surface mist.

Dipping ducks,
necks tucked into the half-light.
watch muddy shadows dive
under mounds of stalky flotsam.

Vista’s gather to paint
their levees of light.
A slight uplift opens
in a drape of sky.

Dawn emerges through reflection,
through liquid eyes,
a looking-glass sun
swims deep-up from above....

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Power behind the middle of the heart
Incredible feats that it carries out
Every day, inside, outside, with each part
There is a light that tells what it’s about
The heart levees strength that is strong and stout
Even through the city, love is within me
My surroundings brings me to Sicily
Where hearts beam with a great, mighty white light
My life is warm with heartbeats that truly
Mend all hearts, working with wonderful sight

Russell Sivey...

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