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Low Water Poems

When Love Leaves Home

...
Once upon a time on the sands she thought she found true love
then one day he went his way what was she dreaming of
now she walks the shoreline alone along the low water mark
searching f...

Categories: low water, beach, feelings, romance, romantic,
Form: Rhyme

Mansfield Dam

...The barren ground bleached by the sacred sun
scantily clothed children and dogs run
Trees scarred by scavenged limbs
Burned in pyres as sunlight dims
Low water levels recorded on painted rocks 
...

Categories: low water, addiction, friendship, home, life,
Form: Rhyme

Cotton Fields

...The devil’s dry fields
dirt farm, not much yields
damn sun
one forlorn tree shields
Texas battlefields
the one
recline that appeals
low water reveals
not done

no reprieve day’s sun...

Categories: low water, earth, environment, farm, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

How Convenient Slated To Receive Second Dose

...How convenient slated to receive second dose...
COVID-19 February 13th, 2021

Here at Highland Manor apartments
me and the missus occupy room B44
courtesy qualified medical personnel
Lansdale, ...

Categories: low water, adventure, africa, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Rhyme

Drought

...Red
Dust and
Low water
One more Texas
Day

4/24/2017
Poetry contest Lanterne Frenzy #2...

Categories: low water, rain,
Form: Lanterne

Stupid Damn Cat

...Stupid damn cat   


Attempting sleep on the balcony, a railing at my back,
twisted iron creating stripes on my flesh.
Crisscrossing as I slide atop a Craigslist mattress
collecting in folds of...

Categories: low water, night, sleep,
Form: Free verse

He Was

...HE WAS

He was one of those Splendor In The Grass
  Forgetless- heart filled days of glory;
    His spirit  on  white puffy cloud-
       Sun- cloned Lewisburg, WV,  fast water

Heaven skipped...

Categories: low water, anniversary,
Form: Epyllion

The Raven

...I scavenge, but clean
I scare, but bring discipline
I portend darkness, but do I have a choice? 
I steal cuckoo’s nest, but help it sing melodies in the forest
I sit and croak on a ledge, but bri...

Categories: low water, bird,
Form: Free verse

Just Down the Road

...The boy I was so many years ago
Loved to visit his grandpa
Who lived in the best of places 
This city dweller could imagine so

Those Ozark Mountains were adventure to me
I the boy and trusted ...

Categories: low water, childhood, nature, nostalgia,
Form: I do not know?

Even Rocks Can Cry

...Even Rocks Can Cry



Even rocks wear away with time
and the demands of strength.  These
seemingly immoveable objects,
deflectors of life’s raging torrents,
sun warmed seats of contemplation,...

Categories: low water, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Haiku-1

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roaring orange tongues 
flicker around crackling trees
low water table
...

Categories: low water, nature,
Form: Haiku

Fulton-Low Water

...T   I   D   E  
L   I   N   E
S   A  N   D
B   A   N   K...

Categories: low water, sea
Form: Shape

Dreamer's Lot

...Could emptiness be the reason I spend my nights
Wide awake, in a quiet restless daze?

I have now become confined by my unconscious thoughts,
Never felt more liberated,
I walk a path that leads ...

Categories: low water, death, faith, friendship, life,
Form: Narrative