Ode to Iguagu Falls (or - "The Cry of Iguagu Falls")

With two-hundred and forty-waterfalls, stillness never glides without sound,

Blueness, from the rising sun, to sunset,

There is a cry, as of the longing soul in the landscape.

The long, inconsolable rumble of isolation

And wetness of the wide rapid-like falls-

Startles the traveler, with a sound so drear-

As if the world is being flooded-a blue day,

Like the dark days of war, in grim rainy weather.

My heart stands still and listens, crosses itself and whispers:

Two-hundred and sixty degrees of waterfalls,

And then the Devil's Throat!...

Yes it ponders: grander than Nigeria, or Victoria,

I know them well; here- 400, 000-gallons of

Water per second that cries from heaven...!

As one wanders, around this canyon like falls,

For human understanding, Yomiko classics perhaps prayer

He becomes baptized within God's footprint!


Poem: 2667/3-17-2010

Note: the Poet has been to Igua�u two times

Note: The waterfall system consists of 275 falls along 2.7 kilometers (1.67 miles) of the Igua�u River. Position is at latitude (DMS): 25� 40' 60 S, longitude (DMS): 54� 25' 60 W. Some of the individual falls are up to 82 meters (269 ft) in height, though the majority is about 64 meters (210 ft). The Devil's Throat, U-shaped, is 82-meters-high, 150-meter-wide and 700-meter-long (490 by 2300 feet) cataract, is the most impressive of all the falls, and marks the border between Argentina and Brazil. Two thirds of the falls are within Argentine territory.

See Dennis' web site: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com