Downriver Poems - Poems about Downriver

...You tried to lead me (surely) by the hand across the shallows but we were both too drunk and the stones too slick so we slid stumbling and laughing, falling toward each other all the way acr......

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...Eroded, undercut, sagging for years beneath the weight of a dead sycamore, the bank gave way when the lake was closed and the dams opened up during the winter overflow, leaving the tree offsh......

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...My drinks enticing and sweet On a chair in the middle of the street My little floaters been dinged Roiling waves the edges singed The wood alive with roiling flame Waters pulsing like a broiling......

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...Warm holes anticipating slick poles Wet holes embracing warm poles Bipolar linear dark division flowing downriver nurture valleys Dipolar round visions forming mountainous spiral hierarchi......

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...During colder winters the river freezes over A vast sheet of ice spreading shore to shore While the traffic awaits March’s spring thaw, Old boatmen share traditional waterway lore And skaters......

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... I was young – no more than twenty Just a child in the minds of most nations Even back then, I believe I had plenty There was hope and grace in my foundations Even at that age, I k......

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...Purple shadows drift beneath the gray sky forge Mists dipping into verdant valleys like quicksilver Skimming the rapids where we hurtle downriver Through seething whitewater of New River gorge ......

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...Aldo Leopold recommended to would be ecotherapists that we deeply learn to "think like a mountain" At life summit and death ebbing silent scales of health becoming and polyculturing wealth ......

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...Mama rhino sways slow up Indigo River. Baby into eager stride for stride and shivers. Waterbucks nudge tip-toe go downriver. High grass and baby dance together A game of play and a ch......

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...Winter survivors open downstream thawing toward cooperative green thrivers Spring green economic and democratic empowering, multiculturing fertile resilience On through summer climax and t......

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...Upriver - a place where she goes to fetch water and firewood Hair is neatly decorated with a collection of cowries and coins Stretch marks that cover the entirety of her growing belly Beauti......

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...I finally finished retiring four years ago, a process that started in my mid-fifties due to late adopting kids with special needs, including needs for me to be home to personally walk them on, h......

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...He retired to his sanctuary on the Eastern shore of the Thames River three years ago, an often frustrated permaculture organizer for building cooperative social health by creatively communicatin......

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...Fear of Climate Success If you're like me, which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience to Zero, Regardless, if we're like we used to be when we were born with all the po......

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...If downriver a conscience sliver should make me wonder Why in the face of challenges I should blunder Fearing to thrive into a hope giver, preferring to pull asunder Pangs of conscience, veering......

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