Best Rapids Poems

The outpour
spouts gently. My lone thoughts
drain bitterly as pearly chutes ebb

Soft patter 
of rapids flushes night
from angst. Though barren stream dives endless

And pierced rocks
lash at my lost chances.
The twirl of water eases love's blow

While I dive
into an evening's pool
like a rapid swollen by gray spills.


For...

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in gurgling rapids
salmon jumping ladders
while grizzlies feast



AP: 3rd place 2022

Submitted on April 17, 2018 for contest HAIKU: FISH sponsored by MICK TALBOT...

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The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation, energy sapping endeavour and quite a few rejection slips of...

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this was the spot
where we’d come
i’d shoot photos of
the golden glitter
as waves ran down
the river bank

this was the spot
where we’d come
we’d just sit and
watch the sun as it set
we were together
seemed we hadn’t
a care in the world

this was the spot
where we’d come
so again today
the sun...

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Rapid gradient
Velocity, turbulence
Increased water flow



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( RIVER RAPIDS )

R- Riding in a raft, heart racing, water splashing.
I- Intense situation, always careful, of any crashing.
V- Voyage underway, up and down is the motion.
E- Extreme class 6, dangerous magic without a potion.
R- Rock splats, load the back, warning signs are flashing.

R- Regulations,...

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Shooting sixty four rapids in the time stream

Powder milk biscuits helped yours truly, 
a Norwegian farmer wannabe feel bold
enough to weather inclement
steady rain which swirled, pooled,
and eddied around rolled
up pant legs skinny ankles, which
immediately felt cold,
though frigid sensation I extolled 
before undertow willingly

steadily, and nimbly...

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Steady rain swirled, pooled,
and eddied around rolled
up pant legs skinny ankles, which
immediately felt cold
before undertow willingly

steadily, and nimbly pulled this former
ace swimmer into watery fold
quelling, relinquishing, and taking
my hard won mettle of gold
earned early in primetime, now

at last...preemptive quiescent salvation
sluiced into unbarred
Davy Jones's locker hold
all...

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A river runs
And rapids rose washing debris
Lawn's raking done  ...

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Is it cool that it’s not cool? Am I making a stink with no sense of smell. Don’t tell me it’s okay to say how I feel then throw me into an emotional jail. I don’t do being locked up well. So what if I...

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Rapids Ahead

I hear the canyon echo the cascading eddies volume,
Growing louder as I paddle closer to run the descent,
To enter the lake past water, hidden rocks and seething foam,
While an eagle soaring the gorge, shrieks an impending portent.

The walls are too steep for portaging the...

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YOU AIN'T SHOT RAPIDS
I've got a dream, but it's only a daydream,
that we're out sailing the sea,
or climbing a mountain, or shooting some rapids,
but you're doing it with me.
Oh, how I wish you would see things my way,
and these things would all come to be,
cause...

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athletic type at the front
wings of a splash, quite a slap
it’s a bother to breathe, but
he might catch a fish...

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Well within the city limits mysteries
Suburban people to the core escape
Into a wilderness of houses bunched together
Outside town, outside the reaches of police            

In giant vehicles much bigger
Much larger than ordinary cars
Good citizens leave...

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It had been years since the seasons changed

Then the Monarch butterflies
Shook from a blue sky in July
Like a box of colored confetti
Re-appeared a miracle atop the sticky meadows

And the day before was so hot
That on my morning walk
I found tree frogs glued to the pavement

In...

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