Famous rivers of the world

Hans Pienaar

Quietly flows the Don (nervous tick), mellifluous
streams bring (balancing act) the silence
to a fulness it has (treadmill therapy) long
promised but not known. Serenely (guarded looks)
flows the Nile, flattening out the ripples
that harmonise (pressure profile) in patterns
unthreatening. Still (mousetrap mania) waters
swell the (feedback felicity) bosom of the Seine,
flush with its own (paper trails) contentment.
Quietly too flows (spin control) the Danube,
an elegant dance are the (time management) slow
swirls of the Jordan, so peaceful in its
forgetting of (manhattan charts) adversities
in (nervous tick) its lazy desert sleep.
Quietly flows the Hudson, (decompression
chamber) mellifluous streams bring
the silence to a (treadmill therapy) fulness
it has long promised (food security) but not
known. Serenely flows the Mississippi, flat
the ripples (cruise consistency) that harmonise
in unthreatening patterns. Still (optimality)
waters swell the (coronary prone) bosom
of the Pearl, flush with (nervous tick) its own
contentment. Quietly too (spin control) flows
the Yangtze, an elegant (real-time reaction) swirling
is the slow dance of the Amazon, so forgetting
of (manhattan charts) adversities in the peace
it finds in (false starts) its lazy jungle sleep.

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