Where Rivers Run

 Where Rivers Run 

By Paul McCann

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Sheet rain

Fell down again ,

On the other side of the road

Gardens were watered and on houses blocked gutters had overflowed .

The rain never stopped for days and somewhere a river rose and flooded a town that was completely cut off and still the river ran ..

Cars were washed away like toys in the flow that had widened its span .

Meanwhile cars drove fast through our town .

They don't slow down .

.You know .

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Footnote

This Structure is called  – The Stepladder Form

It employs syllable count .where the first line of the poem doubles up and the second doubles to a point in the poem where the doubling up stops and then begins dividing in half to the end of the poem . 

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