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POEMS TO RIVERS

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-saiom shriver-

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HUMBLE SWORD RIVER

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Towering granite mountains
cut by the river..
humble living silver sword..
staying not for victory
flowing seaward
toward her Lord
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DIAMOND BACKED CUYAHOGA RIVER
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From the Palisades
we saw
a diamond backed rattler
radiant in the sun
.. rippling his rattle
arcing to strike
the Cuyahoga Valley
to evergreen life...
.. in every drop of his river flux
shining with the sun's own lux
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AQUA TRAIN
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Rivers of peace
gather mass in their aqua train
.. their gentle ways
bisect without force
the land of Aquitaine
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TWO RIVERS MERGE
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The two rivers
flowed together
with few eddies of resistance..
before the one of more power
made the other flow
in his direction..
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as Spirit ends
rebellion through
the effortless magnetism

of merging

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THE MIGHTIEST RIVERS

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The mightiest rivers
begin as a pooling of dew,
a melting of snowflakes,
a gathering of raindrops
which grace the grass
as they begin
their majestic march
from the mountaintop
and past the marsh
onward invincibly to the sea.

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RIVER CHISEL

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WHERE THE OHIO WEDS THE MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI
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Above works hard the tug boat
   It churns and puffs and floats
     and ruffles and foams the coats
       of these two great saints.

                 Below the longawaited mating
                   of two giants..
                              profoundly peaceful
                                        only here and there
                                               eddies of ecstasy
        betray the great confluence
                 as branch braids into trunk

  Mississippi Missouri had surrendered to
  God
                 his desire for a wife..
                 knowing not that the Ohio
                 was waiting for
                 him
                 in the corridors of time..

                 not fireworks but waterweaving
                 in this most sacred silence

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Mississippi Missouri Weds Ohio is to C Connerton and all
   other residents of Cairo Illinois

Larry L Miller's third book will be about more than 7200
rivers in the world.

Diamond Backed Cuyahoga is to John Seiberling, his wife,
  and all those who have worked to preserve the Cuyahoga Valley
    May it be free of axes, chain saws, hunters, and fishermen

(Recently the National
Park Service has been
turning back some
of the wild into farmland.. a violation
of the original intent.)

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RIVER BANKS
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River banks curb great flow
as onward to the sea she goes.
Many suns she reflects
as her waters' volume grows.

CUNNINGHAM FALLS

CUNNINGHAM FALLS

It splashed
It rippled
It sheetglassed
It soared
It babbled
It seeped
and it soaped
and it roared.
It pooled
..cascaded
It gurgled
seatoward
but at its purest
was bubbleless
whitefoamless

Soundless
it poured.

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Cunningham Falls to the shakti, the healing power, Sri Sathya Sai Baba pours through Saiananda Shroyer