Befalling Upward

Quietly a stirring breeze billows verging
gentle wind to swaying wavers
ripples into currents surging
spray to foam to sudden

rapids roaring with tirade
raging unabated toward cascade
frothing forth with frenzies swayed
outpouring possibilities

which solid rocks cannot subdue
but barely narrow in pursuit
too zoomed to final precipice
where all margins evanesce

and gravity insists and twists
river turned declivitous
with rushing lists
splashing

slushing
dashing
crushing
lashing

wringing
stinging
thrashing
crashing

driving power
into shower
spooling pool
to percolate

ever outward
ever untoward
a steady streaming
backward gleaming

ripples slowly dissipating
back to slower graduating
waters flowing growing clearly
soon as stilled enough to play a nearly

perfect mirror minding winding nightly skies
where whirlpool slues to spread beyond and flies
as moonlight swans on past vast darkness up through tiding stars
blurs returning slurring undiscerningly toward sempiternal reservoirs.




Befalling Upward © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.

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(last long lines might wrap here) Waterfall + Word Bank challenge prompt - link: https://allpoetry.com/contest/2732859-ALL-ABOUT-WORDS---write-a-poem-about-a-Wate :

Challenge specifications quoted (as required):
"SPECS
~ Must use entire 8-word bank
~ Four 4-line stanzas
~ Rhyme Only please
~ Copy this entire description in your AN please

WORD BANK ASSOCIATION
(please do not put these words in all caps in your poem)

cascade ~ power ~ possibility ~ rapids ~ spray ~ foam ~ roaring ~ pool"
Submitted: September 16, 2019









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