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Best Watery Poems

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


Premium Member The Rose
This is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls    that...

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Categories: watery, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Soul Embrace
Sunlight rains upon my face
Cascading memories cloaked in mystery
Kissing my eyelids
Ancient teardrops glide down my cheeks
Warmth illuminating my hungry soul

A sense of calm
A pulsating ellipse...

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Categories: watery, age, child, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pink Lace
**Every pace change --are the voices of poets sharing his/her Ribbon** 

"PINK LADIES"  
  
The phone rings, 
The clock dings,

I scream, scream, and...

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Categories: watery, anger, bullying, cancer, death
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Pretty Shoes and Cracked Feet
Once I'm gone 
I'll only be remembered a small while
I'm a tiny tick on a large dial
The words I breathe will stretch about a mile
Even...

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Categories: watery, angst, body, conflict, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

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Categories: watery, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Adrift In Fiction
Placid rain gently kisses unblemished windows
as leaves fall in an Autumn breeze.
In the distance cinereal clouds congregate,
converging upon the city's royal citadel.

Oblivious to the storm,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: watery, analogy, appreciation, books,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Dumb Questions
I was changing a tire and the neighbor walked by
Stood and looked a while, then he said Hi
Got a flat? he asked and this made...

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Categories: watery, funny, me, wife, me,
Form: Rhyme
Rainbow Promise
He has announced his arrival. She waits,
Listening to the thunder cracking through
the layers of air. Looking at the lightning,
brightening and frightening the darkness away,
Lapping up...

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Categories: watery, earth, rain,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Atlantis
~ATLANTIS~   Featuring:) Kelly Deschler

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Can't be re-written by the Gods
The land and sands of time'
Destroyed by the fire of Poseidon's curse 
Atlantis swallowed by:...

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Categories: watery, beautiful, fire, grave, imagination,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Silence of the Waves
Mirabelle orb ascends,
under clementine and pomegranate skies.

Absent,
in delight of daylight.
Eyes set adrift in dawning daydreams.

Calm heart is an oceanic concerto,
flowing along sapphire tones.
Deep breaths walk...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: watery, assonance, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Loss of the Andrea Gail
They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters:
These see the works of the Lord and his wonders in...

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Categories: watery, america, death, fishing, ocean,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Loss of the Lifeboat, the 'Solomon Browne'
In the year ninteen eighty one on the nineteenth day of December
A day the town of Mousehole in Cornwall, will always remember
An R.N.L.I. Watson class...

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Categories: watery, boat, death, people, rain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: watery, assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Doomed To Feel That Bite and Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss
(1A.)
Doomed To Feel That Bite And Hear Serpent's Wicked Hiss

Beyond mingling of Light, Matter, Human thought
reams of coils within darkest abyss are there caught
denied rays...

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Categories: watery, art, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Awake
AWAKE  ~ IN and OUT ~

Spring arising, before morning light,
I walk under the new epic sun
The aroma of yesterday, gone
Today's the day that will...

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Categories: watery, addiction, adventure, betrayal, cute
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things