Malanda Falls, QLD Australia

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Water Falls

 

Under extremest skies, asundered mountains

Rift through the mist and are gone.

Marooned on a wall of vertigo, a single tree

Hangs long pause. Below, a plummet down,

Launching from a ravenous gorge,

Oiled in a slide of moil and whirl,

A river quickens,

Its smooth intent of impetus and purpose

Marbled with the lighter-darker

Darker-lighter weave and shift

Of switchback gravity flecked with foam.

In thrust of flood it threats from force to force

Until momentum,

Pitched by a rock, a heave of opposition,

Bursts splinter-spree, brief ice

Collapsing as it falls and spills

To the kick and jolt of lurch and gone,

As rapids in a boiling purge

Lynch down a chute to the avalanche leap

Where water rolling water sprints a cliff.

Crashing in sheer concussions,

Brute water falls as waterfall,

Gusting in spray and topple,

Plumed with the gush of foam, with whitest gash.

Hanging forever on the keynote of descent,

It falls,

The plunge of freezing steam

Booming in broils, in light cascading

To the terminal ravish of the rocks of descent

 

By Hugh Cook

 

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