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Best Fresh Water Poems

Below are the all-time best Fresh Water poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fresh water poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Where the White Rose Blooms
The single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...

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Categories: fresh water, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Because I Love You
I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of...

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Categories: fresh water, friendship love, humanity, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We
E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fresh water, career, life, planet, together,
Form: Rhyme
Crazy Cat Lady
The cat rules our house, and she has us well trained:
We jump at the sound of her slightest complaint.
The day starts at six when I...

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Categories: fresh water, cat,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Distant Shores
Atlantic storms had taken the main mast
For seven weeks we drifted helplessly
Fresh water and food were running out fast
There was talk below deck of mutiny.

Hunger,...

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Categories: fresh water, sea, storm, wind,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Swans At Coole Park
Summer's sweet swans share 
    white winged feathers
Wild and free as they bow their 
     long graceful necks.
Artistic...

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Categories: fresh water, art, beauty, bird, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas
"Streams of Gold, Blazing Andromedas"

Engagement came at a cost
the written word read 
and worn like a purple robe 
to keep out the cold 
stave the...

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Categories: fresh water, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Russian Evil Will Thrive If Good Men Do Nothing
The west went in guns blazing to help their fellow man
In Syria against the Islamic State and in Iraq and Afghanistan
They brought an end to...

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Categories: fresh water, conflict, death, war, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member God's Picnic

                 The skies filled bulbously with
   ...

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Categories: fresh water, cute love, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rainforest Anthology
from three miles away
the unmistakable sounds~
of howlers chorus  

a slithering snake. 
crushing prey without mercy~
green anaconda  

small eyed black caiman
twenty foot alligator ...

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Categories: fresh water, animal, insect, nature, rainforest,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Louisiana Bayou
"There are those to whom place is unimportant,
But this place, where sea and fresh water meet,
Is important ---"
From "The Rose", by Theodore Roethke

Chilly late October;
thin...

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Categories: fresh water, art, inspirational, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orange Crush the Adventures of Soda Pop Vii
For those who are following this story, here is the next installment. If this is your first time reading, please read the first one and...

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Categories: fresh water, adventure, childhood, crush,
Form: Personification
Sacred Lake Titicaca
Sacred Lake Titicaca

High atop the Andes, between Bolivia and Peru,
sits the birthplace of the Incas, sacred Lake Titicaca.
A powerhouse of nature through and through,
it was...

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Categories: fresh water, beauty, mountains, nature, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sometimes
Sometimes I wish for a king's hearty dish
That I'd eat and could just eat no more.
But, a king's hearty dish is far less than a...

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Categories: fresh water, blessing, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
A Leash-Led Life
Down through the thicket,
Over and across the forest bend,
A tail sways, as the wind lifts leaves
of red and yellow.

Aside a pond kissed with moss,
we take...

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Categories: fresh water, animal, autumn, dog, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things