Ohio River Poems - Poems about Ohio River

...The car ferry stops when the light fades. Rabit Hatch is quite a hamlet now, yet the few houses still seem to slope down to the boat ramp. At night I like to lean over a gate watching those li......Read the rest...

...My arrival beat the sunrise; it was still dark at the small jetty. I dried the wet skiff, mind alert to the soon to be lifting light. Nearby, an unseen water bird clattered into the darkness.......Read the rest...

...The serious Train De-railment in Ohio has led to toxic Phosgene and other toxins to be burned into the air. Phosgene known for use in World War 1 and killed at least 100,000. Now, wildlife, household......Read the rest...

...A bottom land where green is thread through with a trailing mud. A late fruited decay seeps and smears these low meadow pasture. Pot-bellied dewdrops hang, strung upon spawny strings. He......Read the rest...

...The river holds this night with its myriad stars, it reflects a rippling cosmos above and below. More than this, as I look deeper, I sense a bygone starlight, as if all that ever was floats as ......Read the rest...

... Let me tell you a story... It has not happened often in our neck of the woods; I can remember only one time we've had snow on Easter. The Ohio River had flooded earlier that March of......Read the rest...

...Excitement filled the air as the calliope played News spread the famed steamboat was near, Its whimsical gingerbread trimmings displayed. The whole town would rush to the esplanade ......Read the rest...

...Last evening, I noticed the Ohio River is sighing As its waters flowed lazily toward the west, I wondered if old rivers might fear their dying. They tell me her fish are no good for ......Read the rest...

...The boat rocks gently under a reddening sun; is it wrong to wish for a Viking funeral, to ponder a last journey West into the dying light? I could rest my soul here in this skiff on this long ......Read the rest...

...Gentle rolling hills, valley plots, nothing regimented, graves not in ordered row but placed among natural features. It’s beautiful here, especially in the Fall. The Maples are tall and burning ......Read the rest...

...Ever heard of the beautiful Ohio? The writer in me wants you to know - River life has its anecdotes My granny, a German immigrant, mastered that river in dinghy boats to attend a Lutheran church......Read the rest...

...Herons fragment the mist, appear and disappear while remaining motionless. The skiff rocks as a coal barge trundles past. A dewy sky shivers. Nowadays he just sits in a boat looking at Ohio. T......Read the rest...

...In my mind I travel the open road. Whitman, Frost, Thoreau, they got here and there before. I also used to trek and track there and back; now I have this chair and when I can I place ii in a c......Read the rest...

...The bears are back. Where? O somewhere – not here. There are parts of Ohio where the bears go. Where did they come from? Maybe a Ranger took a bear cub from a dead mother, brought it ......Read the rest...

...It’s taken care of. A friend of ours who owns property by the Ohio river has agreed to make use of her pontoon boat, to take my ashes, to scatter them. I have been working toward this, making ......Read the rest...