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Ekphrastic Cascade Poem~ Cascades

Karin Anderson, AU

Cascades

Wise words Father’s ribbons unfurled for me
To dream-stream mellifluous rivulets.
Live now to treasure find, float and flow words
Cascading watercolors in deep reservoirs.

Guiding light will spring forth like Lake Poet’s
Famed English District’s Romantic Movement;
Revere Southey, Coleridge and Wordsworth;
Wise words Father’s ribbons unfurled for me.

Each rill may have spilling, perhaps a tear.
Each thrill may have trilling perhaps a smile.
Glean endless ripples in life’s profound waterfall
To dream-stream mellifluous rivulets.

If you can’t paint pictures then paint with words,
Free style as spume spills fluff of coiffure clouds.
Your pallet’s pen may adorn word pictures;
Live now to treasure find, float and flow words.

Seek trickles down a leaf on fine lace gauze.
Hear plops and drops with pebble’s skim and skip.
Watch metaphors burst mist to beauty-birth
Cascading watercolors in deep reservoirs.

Video Music Nicholas Gunn “Bridal Falls" video by courtesy of Andreea Petu

Cascade Poem

Cascade, a form created by Udit Bhatia, is all about receptiveness, but in a smooth cascading way like a waterfall. The poem does not have any rhyme scheme; therefore, the layout is simple. Say the first verse has three lines. Line one of verse one becomes the last line of verse two. To follow in suit, the second line of verse one becomes the last line of verse three. The third line of verse one now becomes the last line of verse four, the last stanza of the poem. See the structure example below:

a/b/c, d/e/A, f/g/B, h/i/C

To make the Cascade an even longer poem, use more lines in verse one. For example, if verseone has 6 lines, the poem must have seven stanzas so that each line of verse one is reused as a refrain in each following stanza (a cascading effect).

from Shadow Poetry

About Nicholas Gunn

Nicholas Gunn - Platinum selling recording artist and instrumentalist is Classically trained, and with a reputation as one of the world's best selling flutists, Nicholas Gunn is in the upper echelon of contemporary instrumentalists. Having released over thirteen solo projects and selling over two million copies makes him a double platinum artist.

For a complete biography click the link below.

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