Best River Bottom Poems

How lovely, isn't
It, to have an 'off' switch, shotty wiring
And all,
And a presence lined up to ****?

They are always there
To cauterize the wounds of emotional castration
Without desire to examine
The blood pattern forensics,
Chalking the splatter up
To an affinity towards Jackson Polluck. 

Tears are to the meek
As...

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Hidden, perched on high,
The Peregrine Falcon echolocates the
bird-in-flight warning song.
Only when intercept is optimal, takes flight.
Soaring over 100mph, wings and claws
cantilever for precise capture.

There is no app I follow, only the rhythms
of nature my Father passed down to me-

"listen to the wind"
"harvest the gifts of...

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Pedaling along river drive
empty plastic grocery bags
fluttered and flapped from tree branches
like lost battle surrender flags
that line the drought-stricken river.
Their interspersed clings reminded
me of inundated levels
this now anemic river reached;
where once the floodwaters surged south
along its journey to the sea
its now imperceptive flow
struggles, its intimate's...

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Wondering where you are tonight?
Under the starlight I sail so bright
Rowing on surface waters that haunt me
Your faces on calm waters showing me

With my oars I hold so tight
Like your hold in me that caresses me
Winter dew that chills at night
Your heart in me, snugging...

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Alligator attacks prey
Lunges out of the bayou
Loud head slap
Intense jaw clamps down
Gripping death roll
Another muskrat say good bye
Tail spin immobolized
On it's way down
River bottom cries....

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The boy I was so many years ago
Loved to visit his grandpa
Who lived in the best of places 
This city dweller could imagine so

Those Ozark Mountains were adventure to me
I the boy and trusted BB gun in tow
Did explore the river bottom and climb tall...

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having been created 
with painful self awareness,
and
shielded from harms-protected from self 
I navigate
Yellow Brick
river bottom
stepping stones
while I
step lightly through 
Kansas 
returning we, you, they, them 
home

The departed possess
no clock 
no calendar 
yet they still love us
right now

This Entanglement 
like it or not 
blankets me all...

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Just like her favorite character Alice she dresses up. Around her neck a key adorns.  On her way she goes. She has read of a keyhole that holds heaven on the other side of its door. A young girl named Cassy sits curiously by...

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Clutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly rattling awry

The vibration tingling in the palm of my hand
As if I had cupped an angry bee
Until the swivel hook...

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Natures mozaic masterpiece in multicolored splender.
A rippling change of dancing light the river bottom renders.
The heart does soar from what life implores.
Beauty like this could never come from a store.

The world goes round without a thought.
But beauty like this needs to be caught.
A simple stone...

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God's creation is something to behold
I see with every leaf unfold
I it in every Robin and Wren
I see it in every river's bend

I see it in Spewell Bluff
With its cliff so ragged and ruff
Climbing from the river bottom green
To the sky oh so serene...

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Just like her favorite character Alice, she wears a light blue dress and a pinafore, she pairs it up with white tights and black Mary Jane shoes.   A black ribbon pulls hair tight, she adds something else, around her neck a skeleton key...

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My feet feel their way
Along the rocky river bottom
Arms balancing
Waist bending
Ankles slipping, twisting,
Toes gripping on algae-covered stones
And maneuvering 
Through ice-cold hell
Hell 
Hell 
Hell

Until you.
A warm tuft of grass and clover
Soft and green
Ankles burning with warmth
Love
Salvation....

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Time, be of the essence!
O spark of head and heart!
Fate and Fortune, Chaos, Chance!
Anoint, O my art!

Will, be with me! Stand and hold!
Glow in fiery cold!
River bottom, hast thou gold?
Underneath the mold...

Glass, clear vision, futures sought.
Slice of seer's trade, tell.
Flicker, form of friend? We ought?
Brightly...

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