This Poem was Submitted By: Robert Wyma On Date: 2001-10-21 03:33:37 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Titan

An Alaskan gateway of exchange where salty drinks fresh and humans have not marked the barren stark beauty where nature creates titans of towering  splendor unnoticed. A snow packed icy time capsule has kissed the cool waiting waters  splashing a thunderous clap that announces the freedom of a giant white berg rising above her peers and hiding well her girth that catches the current and impels her form towards the pacific. Then suddenly she pauses as her icy skirt  scars hidden surfaces of silt and rock in a narrow gorge that framed her view of the ocean goal. A stalled white mountain becomes the dam as collecting cool waters are transformed into miles of jagged glistening inland lake that consumes shoreline and valley in a standing column  waiting for release. All is still in the blackness of night as the towering matriarch observes the array  of blue and white who have become her own gathered round her neck like a necklace she crafted in four months toil. Suddenly the weights and measures  of natures deep wisdom split her mass in a reverberating explosion that sends her children slamming careening and tumbling in a sweeping tidal release  that delivers white giants  like a river of rough diamonds into the endless black stir of rolling pacific cheers greeting her treasure.

Copyright © October 2001 Robert Wyma

Additional Notes:
This happened in Alaska where this unusually giant iceberg bottomed out, blocked the inlet and created a thirty two mile lake 82 feet deep in four months. A US geologist surveying the area heard the berg crack one night and it sounded like a bomb going off as this great ice block released water at 4 million cubic per second down the inlet. Icebergs the size of two story houses where tossed into the sea at the speed of a modern cruise liner.


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