Life Rapids Poems

Rapids Ahead

I hear the canyon echo the cascading eddies volume,
Growing louder as I paddle closer to run the descent,
To enter the lake past water, hidden...

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Shooting sixty four rapids in the time stream

Powder milk biscuits helped yours truly, 
a Norwegian farmer wannabe feel bold
enough to weather inclement
steady rain which swirled,...

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The greatest performance of my life.  
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award  on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids”...

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Well within the city limits mysteries
Suburban people to the core escape
Into a wilderness of houses bunched together
Outside town, outside the reaches of police  ...

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this was the spot
where we’d come
i’d shoot photos of
the golden glitter
as waves ran down
the river bank

this was the spot
where we’d come
we’d just sit and
watch the...

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Steady rain swirled, pooled,
and eddied around rolled
up pant legs skinny ankles, which
immediately felt cold
before undertow willingly

steadily, and nimbly pulled this former
ace swimmer into watery fold
quelling,...

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Is it cool that it’s not cool? Am I making a stink with no sense of smell. Don’t tell me it’s okay to say how...

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YOU AIN'T SHOT RAPIDS
I've got a dream, but it's only a daydream,
that we're out sailing the sea,
or climbing a mountain, or shooting some rapids,
but you're...

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The Rapids
~~~~~~~~~
Swept about the river of time
In this land of the living
Like so much waste and debris
Many passers in this torrid stream
Its maelstrom of misery,...

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I reached the roaring mountain river
Forever racing fast against the wind
Foamy white, the rapids called me
Into the stream, I made descent
Within a kayak, keeping balance
Stroke...

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