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Best Waterwheel Poems

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


Premium Member Upon the Fireplace Mantle
Upon the fireplace mantle
A metal high container
Filled with white flowers
Two birthday cards lean
In the middle stands 
The large family painting
A waterwheel house
On a farmer's field
Beside...

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Categories: waterwheel, angel, art, flower,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member At the Millpond
The millwheel will not turn again till spring
for Winter’s icy cold grip holds it firm.
She squeezes it like Her private plaything,
though Her crushing power is...

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Categories: waterwheel, 12th grade, anxiety, community,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Yosemite's Ephemeral Autumn Falls
Yosemite’s Ephemeral Autumn Falls

Bald giants of swift water smoothed pale granite
Mark deep clefts for tumbling summer snowmelt
Rush released from frozen streams once frostbit
Silver swells -...

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Categories: waterwheel, autumn, water, , western,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member The Isle of Man
Travel on our steam railway and step back in time
Historic village at Cregneash it really is divine
Enjoy traditional Manx seafood the ’Queenies’ are sublime

Irish Sea...

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Categories: waterwheel, home,
Form: Acrostic
The Fishing Weather of Love
O yes, that is fine day
For fishing in mountain river
When weather is bad, 
And raining from early gray dawn. 
When world look so pity and...

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Categories: waterwheel, rain, , Lullaby,
Form: Lyric



God's River
In your river; 
My heart, like a ruined waterwheel;
Whatever it turns, in any direction , 
there is water flowing all over.
And even if I leaned...

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Categories: waterwheel, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member And the Rains Came
The spring rain pounds on the roof’s asphalt shingles
washing the maple pollen from porches and cars
just moments ago dusted with puce green.

A tumult of rain...

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Categories: waterwheel, inspirational, introspection, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haiku 4
ripples spread
from the turning waterwheel --
sparrow song...

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Categories: waterwheel, nature,
Form: Haiku
Wind Down
that indian, he ain't come to town
still, summer's started windin' down
you can feel it in the air some how 
this season's seasoning, time to avow

do...

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© Goode Guy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: waterwheel, life, love, nature, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dried Wood
Dried Wood


Dried wood flaking in secluded sunlight
Reflected in the rippled roiling stream
Solemn squeak of rusted waterwheel
Long stilled by progress passing by.

Soft green of trees reclaiming...

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Categories: waterwheel, age, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gingerbread Houses and the Frosting Factory
Since I was, but a child, I loved frosting on everything. Frosting on cupcakes, cookies, and cakes. I would put my fingers in the frosting...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: waterwheel, food, house, parents, sweet,
Form: Narrative
Types of Taking
Time's admirer hijacks sections
Rips strings of delicious from fattest flesh
Imbibes fibres provided sublimely 
Licks fingers with shameless relish 

Nature's passenger adequately dazzled
Rides intention piloted by...

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Categories: waterwheel, analogy, introspection, psychological,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things