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Backwaters Poems - Poems about Backwaters

Backwaters Poems - Examples of all types of poems about backwaters to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for backwaters.
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, beautiful, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse



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......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, appreciation, home, music,
Form: Free verse
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......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, nature,
Form: Free verse



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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, appreciation, baptism, care, character,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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, ......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, allusion, analogy, appreciation, care,
Form: Free verse
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......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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.......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, dad, fishing, memory, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, america,
Form: Free verse
Flooding In God's Own Country
...Red alert! Anxiety level rises. Dam shutters open. Water wanders among the concrete buildings, seeking the buried backwaters, lakes, ponds, fields… A member of the land mafia marks himself a......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Devil's Train
...The lip of childhood was bloodied. when the CSX ran over my puppy. For years I fired rocks at the freight cars. Trains were supposed to be your second-best friend. Not a killer of soft things tha......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Words of Sea
...The words of sea although adventurous, rapturous, salty ... They are also aware how to be sweet and homemade ... They are fon of waves, ......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, adventure, allegory, allusion, metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Nemo
...He sat on the park bench The weight of ages Settled about his shoulders. Long dirty fingernails peeked From torn cotton gloves. A thin sweater, ripped and......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, anger, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
I Love My President
...For he had all the choices in the world All the luxuries, the best and most sumptuous fare All the wealth and splendor ... no bother nor care Yet the backwaters and stable, not Jerusalem ......Read the rest...
Categories: backwaters, christian, gospel, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Verse

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