Ebb and Flow

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Play the audio and listen to the flowing, rippling, soothing, mesmerising, meditative, calming water… Watch the video… Read the poem at a slo-w and tran-quil pace. Go with the flow, nice and sl-ow. Why not meditate? (or not).

Ebb
and flow
the
waters
go waving
ripples
rip		 
ripple		
rippling
serpentining	
with the tide
swirling
     curves
curling
side-by-side
   undu-
            lat-
                   tory
     calm



Lesley Scoble,  June 2023

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I wrote Ebb and Flow in the Waltz Wave Poetry Form as I believe the form lends itself to slow, calm verse. The syllabic pattern is: 1/2/1/2/3/2/1/2/3/4/3/2/1/2/3/2/1/2/1. It is a single stanza poem of 19 lines, with each line having a set number of syllables. With the lines being so short, they make the poem form a long, slender, vertical shape. Like a narrow, slow-flowing stream. This form lends itself to best expressing a calm, trickling cascade… This poetry form is…