Freshwater Poems

Premium MemberA CRYSTALLINE COLLAGE

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IN SIGHT'S EYE

Ideas with nowhere to hide
An eureka moment inside

Indistinct ,then becoming clear
Words & pictures coming near-

A passage of light to my soul,
Inspiration to...
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Categories: freshwater, appreciation,
Form: Crystalline

next summer

...Do you think we could fall in love again next summer?
Like a warm breeze that swiftly moves through the seasons embracing for the cold winter ahead.
We would sit among dewy grass blades and walk al...
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Categories: freshwater, break up, fate, lost
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHouseboat

...Lucid refractions prance in this day's gloaming
Window panes sway in play to each heave and hoe
Stirred by haunting echoes of distant loons wailing
My gaze awakens in sheets that float her still t...
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Categories: freshwater, boat, house, water,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSaturday Surprise

...Poll Parrot belonged to little Addie, and he always lingered by her side.
People admired the well spoken companion, like the dusky skies, dyed.

Poll Parrot could talk a blue streak, and s...
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Categories: freshwater, fantasy, nursery rhyme, pets,
Form: Couplet

Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders

...Draconian measures promise to hobble future SEPTA transit riders

one of whom would be
this married sexagenarian,
who recently acquired
his Senior Fare Card
courtesy Trump's big beautiful bill
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Categories: freshwater, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberI am a Catfish afterall

...I am a freshwater fish
Some of my kin have grown to ten feet
I am shrimpy compared to them
I stopped growing at six feet

I live in a place with lots of dinner
A lake that attracts worms, frogs...
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Categories: freshwater, fish,
Form: Personification

bittersweet life

...“If you've never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.”
- Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Even sweetest freshwater river
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Categories: freshwater, life,
Form: Free verse

instinct

...cascading falls rush to the beats
clear freshwater urges salmon leaps...
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Categories: freshwater, appreciation,
Form: Crystalline

Premium MemberFish Eyes Bulge

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    Remove the joy from life
      replace it with drudge

    Fill a freshwater pond
      with pitch-black sludge

    Fish eyes bulge, gills choke
      ~ underwater's stroke
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Categories: freshwater, betrayal, death, joy, life,
Form: Couplet

On Seasickness

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A churning within gill and fin so low
with my tongue, she's tasted the aqua bowl
the dancing inside no place ever goes —

How the brig's see through from stem cells under;
what little chains...
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Categories: freshwater, deep, innocence, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Premium MemberAnimating Innate Vibrance

...As the mediterranean torrents 
thawed away this wildflower of Medusa ~
once roaring in merciless thunders, 
now, I'm found swaying,
midst lemongrass fields ~
conversing with freshwater naiad...
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Categories: freshwater, deep, emotions, meaningful, mental
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCock Robin's Song

...I was a capable, urban professional, quite eagerly living the high life;
Like pink robin, of the saffron noon zenith, afore shadows bloom rife.

My daily work was very challenging, and it ...
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Categories: freshwater, bird, fantasy, home, morning,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberDolphins

...Intelligent freshwater sprinters...
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Categories: freshwater, animal, water,
Form: Monoku

Premium Membersturgeon moon

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solunar evening
	serene azure beckoning ~
		 stirrers of the deep

(August Full Moon – Great Lakes and Lake Champlain)...
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Categories: freshwater, animal, fish, moon, native
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberGNRT DAY 32 A LITTLE HISTORY

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Today as we traveled from Michigan into Canada
across the twin cities of Salt Ste. Marie….
on the 300 miles of this journey…we learned a little more history….

The name Canada most likely came ...
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Categories: freshwater, history,
Form: Rhyme

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