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History River Poems

These History River poems are examples of River poems about History. These are the best examples of River History poems written by international poets.


Premium Member Confuence
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“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.” Confucius

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Categories: river, extended metaphor, heart, love,



Premium Member Spent Treasure
Spent Treasure

Julius Caesar desired Brittania
not its tin for soldiers weaponry
but for an island strung with pearls
the rarest and most prized of gems
he would face the...

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Categories: river, beauty, class, environment, history,

Premium Member TIME IS LIKE A COSMIC RIVER
TIME IS LIKE A COSMIC RIVER			

Time is like a cosmic river running to a somewhere sea,
As wide as all existence, long as eternity.
Time to be...

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Categories: river, change, creation, history, space,

Premium Member Ironbridge
Where once a fiery crucible 
changed the world 
a coracle 
reclaims its river...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: river, change, history,

Premium Member The River of Life
I wish I could immerse myself 
in the pages of history, time, 
and deep reflection...letting go 
of everything I think I know 
and give myself...

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Categories: river, bible, books, history, humanity,



Premium Member Stepping Stones
Do not let this be sand taken by breeze,
uncovering unwanted paths 
like stepping stones in a stream. 
Pause time
without jumping to the next. 
Take all...

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© Lee Norton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: river, emotions, for her, inspirational

Premium Member The Mythical River Beast
I watched it emerge
from out of the fog, monumental
in size, a sheer cliff face of steel 
moving pass me, almost
quieter than my breath 
but for...

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Categories: boat, magic, river,

Premium Member An Evanescent Life - Xaxa Sonnet
Our life is as evanescent as the 
trumpet flower of the morning glory. 
The merest chapter in the history 
of mankind’s ever compelling story. 
Various...

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Categories: river, death, extended metaphor, life,

Premium Member London Bridge
To wake beneath a bridge, absurd
Understanding not a single word
Of language lacking meter, grammar
An ageing cuckolds pleading stammer

Sunrise denied sweet fogs corona
Beneath this bridge in...

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Categories: life, river,

Ripples
. for public domain 

Wind has long formed ripples,
pebbles too, upon a shallow river bed,
a hand agrasp a wooden oar,
fingers dangling in play,
skipping rounded stones,
a...

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Categories: river, water,

Premium Member From Birkenhead Bridge
Memory still walks
along the river
on a summer's evening 
when a soft wind
lingers over the mangroves 
and lifts the smell of mud
rimmed along the river's edge
into...

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Categories: river,

Pateras Potamos
Come to me Achelous
river without tears
Carry me distant
away from my fears

Direction is onward
Olympus bestows
 Hermes in orbit
directing the flow

At home in your waters
whose currents surpass
Defining...

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Categories: river,

Hindu Anarchy Coming To India: Canto Ii- Two States Begin Fighting
Which is the easiest way to make two
Indian states to fight?
One is to throw power, language, water-
Issues on their face.

So you’ll have got two Dravid...

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Categories: river, corruption, environment, malayalam, poetry,

Premium Member Paradise Found 2
Were I to swim to the edge of the sea,
what splendid scene should await for me?
Would I behold the legendary town
with glittering brick roads and...

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Categories: river, fantasy, happy, history, longing,

A Quiet River
Along a quiet river to nowhere were styx lean like broken crosses. The wind is gentle with a sent of quite decay or is that...

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Categories: river, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy,


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