Poet’s Corner: Cascading Water

3 March 2026

We missed a week here, owing to illness, and so after today we will post a couple of our fantasy posts to catch up, and keep from confusing this old guy! (8 August 2014) As our vacation bequeathed to us a miserable cold, making any kind of thought difficult, we will share one of our new poems, written during our week away from home. We visited a place called Silver Creek Falls, along with several other groups, including many small children, whose laughter echoed brightly within the narrow bowl carved from ancient basalt. . . .

Cascading Water

Cascading water whispering
pines echoing
happy
voices holiday out little eager hands
to feel
touch of spray
behind the waterfall
bowl carved from ancient lava flows
patient water
empty sockets only evidence
of trees surrounded & consumed
rivers of liquid roving
flowing
inexorably toward the sea
splash of green across cliff face
tenacious moss
clings
to craggy cliff face
slowly
ever so slowly
chipping away carving dense basalt
tiny fingers finding every crack
widening
cracking
falling
into yawning chasm deep pool
joining
water cascading to the distant sea.

Look for the next Poet’s Corner on Friday. We remind all that Smashword’s “Read an ebook” week is ongoing–get our ebooks for half-price this week only! Good reading!