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Best High Water Poems

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


Come Hell Or High Water
She looks out the window and sees him in the distance. 
So much fear inside leaves no room for resistance. 
If she ran right now...

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Categories: high water, abuse, anxiety, fear, hurt,
Form: Rhyme



Loving
Loving is to through a pebble into the sea
and the ripple become a wave
to plant a seed
and it become a tree
to cook a meal
and it...

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Categories: high water, lovewords, giving, love, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Cookies
Now they say that girls are made of sugar
And spice, but good girls finish last my friend.
For there is one truth for all women kind,
Come...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high water, food, heart, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Sands
The evenings breeze moves the curtains, 
ever slowly,
motioning to the world their compliance.
Behind them hides the moon,
rising,with clouded scattered light,
like a flock of birds frightened...

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Categories: high water, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Te Mu Dheireadh De Threubh a Chaidh a Bith
Sat all alone beside that muttering shoreline he busied 
      Himself, diligently, and sewed.      ...

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Categories: high water, remember,
Form: Rhyme



What I Want
I want much more than one..night of passion
I want our dreams and desires to come true
I want each memory, to be beyond our belief
That’s what...

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Categories: high water, deep, devotion, emotions, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Mother Ghana
MOTHER GHANA
I was told about your retrospect, after that scene, I burst into tears. I learned they came to genuflect like angels and took away...

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Categories: high water, art, fun, happy, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member River's End
At the foot of the Elbow,
just above the Bow,
an angler drowned
his feet caught 
in a shopping cart
split-cane rod still 
firmly in his grasp.

On the Grand
just...

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Categories: high water, death, fishing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Being Lazy
Being lazy today is the name of the game.
I have no remorse, I have no shame.
I’m watching Hallmark movies to my heart’s content.
This Saturday afternoon...

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Categories: high water, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The End of Tuvalu
To the bottom of the ocean,
where the fish can only dream,
to the bottom of the ocean,
to build our graves-
among the sea.

Tuvalu, Tuvalu-
our home and friend,
our...

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Categories: high water, sadpeople, home, birth, home,
Form: I do not know?
The Easter Egg Hunt
I don't know how it started

But it's an annual event

But I don't think that an egg hunt

Is the best way to present

The story of our...

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Categories: high water, candy, chocolate, easter, family,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ps Nether Lands
'twixt
hell and 
high water...

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Categories: high water, places
Form: Epigram
Birds
Swift does the shallow river flow
beneath the trees that upwards grow,
Kingfishers sit on a shoreline rock
hunting fish in the water below

Starlings swarm in a large...

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Categories: high water, animal, nature, sea, urdu,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member From Pretty Pink Bows To Baby Bassinets
From Pretty Pink Bows To Baby Bassinets  


              Well little girl...

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Categories: high water, baby, life, social, teen,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Overarching Genocide
Overarching Genocide

Noah built the wooden Ark in his homeland instructed by God
to save his wife three sons and their wives from drowning a life 
raft...

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Categories: high water, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs