Backwaters Poems - Poems about Backwaters

The Sinking Ship of Negativity

...
It's disappearing like buffalo across the vast plains...
familiarity has become distorted, both sour and rank.
There's an abandoning of the ship of negativity, 
bringing grief far worse than nin...

As a submissive and passive lad

...As a submissive and passive lad...

and boyish looking sexagenarian
with similar disposition,
I revel(ed) reading in general
(and spent carefree idle summer days
squirreled away with tomes
of ...

Marquee

...Every night a well-dressed puppet keeps score 
of the deaths and casualties of the freshest war.
Some nights the tally is low like a soccer match 
tonight, it's triple digits for the blue-collar m...

HOW CAN I PRETEND : PART 1

...HOW CAN I PRETEND ? 
PART 1

How can I pretend when 
flutters across my chest only 
prickle as your thought 
arrives with doubt or hope 
What is hope anyway ?
A flimsy wish built upon 
a mat...

Truffles and Treasures

...Mankind seems a fraction lost
chasing truffles and treasures
through the sawdust of his mind.
Beating back wild hogs
in the backwaters of temptations
as emerald jacket croakers
play hide and se...

Pearl of the Orient

...Surrounded by tranquil turquoise waters,
Guarded on sides by oceans three,
In the east by the Pacific,
On the south by the Celebes Sea,
And on the west by the south China Sea, 
There...

Pioneering

...Rolling clouds over rolling hills.
Kentucky is winding it roads out in endless curves.
No hurry,
this journey drives me
through its curling landscape
as a self-reading picture book of racial mem...

Lulling Symphonies of My Land

...Guarded by towering hills on the East 
And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West
With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell 
That lulls the restless waves to sleep, 
There is a land, my l...

The Sleeping Arm

...As I hold its numb weight
it grows younger,
more delicately knit
to blue somnolent veins.

I am left high and dry
while nerve endings circle
the dilated roots
of severed memories.

A pinche...

Clouds

...Light and white 
The clouds go in line guided by the Wind, 
At their pasture. 
They will come back tomorrow heavy And gray loaded with rain, 

And will fill the backwaters 
Will grow the tender...

2021 the Year Poets Saved Christmas

...The year was 2021 and Christmas was fast approaching,
Fear and uncertainty were seeping into every corner of daily life,
Good will was at an all time low throughout the land,
With Covid spreading ...

Mothers

...They are creatures that come from heaven
               sprinkling lights on trails,
               they are not simple people, they are stars
               who come here to install harmony,
   ...

These Parts

...Some parts have regenerated
not backwards, local history
cannot be expunged with a backhoe and eraser.
There are facilities, collection plants,
distributions centers, storage units.
Where once s...

Fishing With Dad

...Florida Everglades Wind by Mark Mazzarella



Trolling over the deep backwaters of the Everglades, 
turtles snapped and alligators sunned on banks, still as statues....

Savage Year

...Savage year-quiet God
in the backwaters 
of a brackish riot pond...
9 minutes to trash a life
9 minutes to trash society
We're walking toward the brink
but we don't have to be...
Black lives-w...

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