Best Riverbed Poems

Love On The Riverbed

He pitched a tent on her banks
Her teeth clenched as pegs dug deep
Campfire sparks, heat's erecting 
The winds howling in lost flight

connie...

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I’m listless as a lazy river
barely lapping at the shore.
I wanted once to find the ocean,
but I don’t care any more.

Would I even make a...

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Nor thunder in the dark, nor flash, nor fire,
nor other pyrotechnics that, they say,
accompany all such events, nor dire
phantasmagorias, going astray

in the unconsciousness. I’m all...

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Inspiration where do you go when
you leave and your dry, barren
riverbed causes blinding dust storms in
my mind?  Do you evaporate into
mist, become a gray...

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I wished upon a paper moon

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I wished upon a paper moon
and fell among the stars
Was whisked away to somewhere good
a place just where you are

Along...

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Rust sleeps without the churchyard
on the blunt perimeter rails,
on the bloom of iron stabbing up
into the pelt of rain.

Rust sleeps upon the fence posts
where the...

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As Marion trod the old familiar path
leading to the river of her childhood,
she viewed the willow tree across the river
and recalled with clarity
the event that...

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Wind breezes are rustling up leaves
Earth and grass caress your feet
Waves are like coffee foams in a huge mug
Your hands submerged and wet
swimming in an...

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In his heart a man plans his course but 
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How lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the...

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Planet Mars watches over us like angel at night
With Venus, the star that shines so bright
It’s one of our cosmos’ fascinating sights
A red planet inviting...

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River minnows

One of life’s sunshine days 
A pleasant walk down to the river
Scene of all basking in high summer sun
Sheep graze roaming enamoured of the...

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See-saw this way to see the Sea Light. Big Stellar Light to guide my way.  As if on an obstacle course one stray night....

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Beaver dam breaks slowly,
Abandoned but still there,
On a bare riverbed,
On a river that was once there....

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Through April and May not a single Indian has been noticed
along all the serpentine bends of this rambunctious river,
however I feel we are being espied...

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