| In the blue and green landscape, around Iguaçu, | | | | Water per second that cries from heaven...! |
| where, when day is prepared, | | | | As one wanders, around this canyon like falls, |
| With two-hundred and forty-waterfalls, stillness never | | | | For human understanding, perhaps prayer |
| glides without sound, | | | | He becomes baptized within God's footprint! |
| Blueness, from the rising sun, to sunset, | | | | Poem: 2667/3-17-2010 |
| There is a cry, as of the longing soul in the landscape. | | | | Note: the Poet has been to Iguaçu two times |
| The long, inconsolable rumble of isolation | | | | Note: The waterfall system consists of 275 falls along |
| And wetness of the wide rapid-like falls- | | | | 2.7 kilometers (1.67 miles) of the Iguaçu River. Position |
| Startles the traveler, with a sound so drear- | | | | is at latitude (DMS): 25° 40' 60 S, longitude (DMS): |
| As if the world is being flooded-a blue day, | | | | 54° 25' 60 W. Some of the individual falls are up to |
| Like the dark days of war, in grim rainy weather. | | | | 82 meters (269 ft) in height, though the majority is |
| My heart stands still and listens, crosses itself and | | | | about 64 meters (210 ft). The Devil's Throat, U-shaped, |
| whispers: | | | | is 82-meters-high, 150-meter-wide and 700-meter-long |
| Two-hundred and sixty degrees of waterfalls, | | | | (490 by 2300 feet) cataract, is the most impressive of |
| And then the Devil's Throat!... | | | | all the falls, and marks the border between Argentina |
| Yes it ponders: grander than Nigeria, or Victoria, | | | | and Brazil. Two thirds of the falls are within Argentine |
| I know them well; here- 400, 000-gallons of | | | | territory. |