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Downriver Poems - Poems about Downriver

Downriver Poems - Examples of all types of poems about downriver to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for downriver.
Premium Member Regenerate Revolutions
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, body, humor, integrity, passion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member Beneath Them Steady Waters Still Are Flowing
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, boat, river, sports, winter,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Yancey Railroad
... 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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whitewater Rafting
...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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, adventure, water,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Aldo's Note To Future Regenerations
...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 ......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, caregiving, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member A Day With Mama and Baby Rhino - Nursery Rhyme
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, africa, nursery rhyme,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Surviving Pandemic Winter
...Winter survivors open downstream thawing toward cooperative green thrivers Spring green economic and democratic empowering, multiculturing fertile resilience On through summer climax and t......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, earth day, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Marks of An African Woman
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, 12th grade, africa, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reflection On An Aging Nomad
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, age, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member moonlight lanyard -
... bruised but alive thrumming heart ... bloodied hand trembling I measure the moon with my thumb as I watch the long boat drift away downriver - YOU are on it ... with the king's entourage ......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, adventure, passion, romance, romantic
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member View From a Sanctuary
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, age, america, change, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member If You'Re Like Me
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, childhood, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Name On a Salvation Scroll
...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......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moonlight Lanyard
...Bruised but alive Thrumming heart ... Bloodied hand trembling I measure the moon with my thumb As I watch the long boat drift away downriver ... YOU are ......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, moon, passion, soulmate, true
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tying Up the Second Coming
...I was tying up her second shoe when the second coming came. The first had been the night before when the bus demons dropped her off to say they might be back but weren't exactly sure when, wh......Read the rest...
Categories: downriver, anti bullying, bullying, caregiving,
Form: Political Verse

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