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Best Riverside Poems

Below are the all-time best Riverside poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of riverside poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Life In Sepia and Watercolours
When I was just a little girl
I painted soaring seagulls
in a dawning sky of duck-egg blue
I painted ladybirds and whimsical butterflies
A red cottage with square-shaped...

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Categories: riverside, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sigh of Yesteryear
Nostalgic rumblings harken back, rattling on and on:
Where have the sweet dreams of yesteryear gone,
Why does starry night yield to nightmares of dawn
In shattered, dismantled,...

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Categories: riverside, lost love, memory, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Faded Leaf
                 By the serene riverside
    ...

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Categories: riverside, analogy, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse
Bodhi Tree
and I hunger for you, like a moth
longing for one last flicker of flame 
nestled deep inside my heart

the memory of my childhood worship sits...

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Categories: riverside, appreciation, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn Splendor
With September’s tenure over, October takes charge.
Leaves turn yellow, red, and ochre in colourful surge.
As autumn breeze strongly veers round and blows,
Leaves fall and lie...

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Categories: riverside, autumn, color, tree,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cruisin' the Drag
Sipping cherry limeade, driving in the car parade, 
we're cruising in the Lone Star state.
Didn't want a bucket seat; the thing it couldn't beat, 
was...

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Categories: riverside, car, funny, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night of the Ball
Music echoes through the halls,
climbing stairs, and gilded walls.
Our lovely lass discreetly swoons. 
With longing eyes, she scans the room.

Young ladies dressed, in gowns, divine,
are...

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Categories: riverside, art, dance,
Form: Rhyme
The Power of Flowers
A is for Aster dancing in the wind
B is for Begonia as many as you can find

C is for Cornflower adorning a maiden’s hair
D is...

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Categories: riverside, child,
Form: ABC
River Life
Sailing on the sweet river Shannon.
Ireland's river ways central vein.
Sleeping soundly on a river barge.
Listening to the pit patting rain.

Stopping engine to eat each evening...

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Categories: riverside, adventure, journey, river,
Form: Verse
Yesterday
when the evening  wind dies
upon the mountain top,
when cold silence chills the night with her tongue,
when the shadows bid the forest be still;
i will...

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Categories: riverside, lost love, lovehome, voice,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Endless Love
I thought I saw you yesterday.
My heart assumed an unfamiliar arrhythmia mode.
True it was a humid and hectic day
and I was wearied out.

So as I...

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Categories: riverside, autumn, love,
Form: Free verse
Bougainvillea
BOUGAINVILLEA CITY

The city that enjoyed the floral name
 Is now a transformed spectre of its past
A semi-graced decline has changed its mien
Like comely lady reaching...

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Categories: riverside, allusion, flower,
Form: Free verse
Erotica
Erotica what is it?
I’m not sure what it means
Is it something for sensual pleasure?
Or is it something in my dreams?
Is it perspiration glistening on a...

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Categories: riverside, life, romance, sensual,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Empty Net
My balsa wood float rides ripple and wave
My bait unappealing today
Fingers frostbitten but I shall be brave
As I try to catch something to weigh

The cormorant...

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Categories: riverside, environment, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
The Picture
Photograph's can easily deceive.
       Seeing her pose next to this man is make-believe.
The smile on her face is a...

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Categories: riverside, angst, death, sad
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs