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Inspiration River Poems

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


Premium Member The Steps Ahead
. . . and with a haughty drink 
of Virgil’s water 
from the River Lethe
I venture forth knowing nothing
bring on the steps ahead 
and what...

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Categories: river, inspiration, journey, life, mystery,



if in doubt look to the river for inspiration
If you only shout,
And are full of doubt,
On how to carry on,
When you turn the radio on,
Or no longer turn the tv on,
As fake is...

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Categories: river, age, baptism, beauty, celebration,

Premium Member The Endless River Flows
("Gravity's Rainbow", 2017, original encaustic)

The Endless River Flows

Everywhere sheep being led to slaughter
Everywhere the innocent seduced
Everywhere someone crying
While another looking up 
Into open skies
As unspoken...

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Categories: river, imagination, inspiration, perspective,

The Trickle of Wicken Fen
Blurred bushes rush by
Brain bends 
Time out far across the fens 
A solitary heron flaps
The pterodactyl lazy loads 
A flyover of long strokes 
Of reed...

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Categories: river, beauty, bird, inspiration, mystery,

Oh Love Shall Lead Me To the River Styx
Oh, love shall lead me to the river Styx,
Where shadows dance and darkness affix.
In the realm of myths and ancient lore,
I'll follow love, to distant...

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Categories: river, image, imagery, imagination, inspiration,



Premium Member About Langston Hughes' Suicide Note
About Langston Hughes’ Suicide Note

My intention is not to offer an exegesis
We can all remember the kiss of Judas
Which of course was a death sentence
The...

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Categories: river, betrayal, dark, imagination, inspiration,

Premium Member Shadows At Midnight
In the quiet of the night
That's what I dread the most
Cause when the clock strikes twelve
That's when I see her ghost

It moves like a shadow
Till...

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Categories: death, river,

Sitting On a Rock In the Middle of a Gentle River
sitting on a rock in the middle of a gentle river
collecting my thoughts and taking in the pain
crying tears of regret and not caring about...

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© Marty King  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: river, death, i love you,

Premium Member River Deep Mountains High
RIVER deep MOUNTAINS high

A babbling burn
   in feathered ferns
into  rivers unseen
a stream 
of 
freshwater 
clean
silts against 
sloping banks
& current 
slows into eddys
of
rivers
deep...

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Categories: river, inspiration,

Premium Member Poetic Rythem
About poetry,
There is nothing magical.
There is nothing mysterious.
There is nothing theoretical.

But for every rhythm there's a reason.
There is indeed poetic times and seasons.
There is an...

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Categories: poetry, river,

Call of the River
I stand at the bank of the river 

where my father used to come,

Twilight brings him here,

He stands and watches,

Lost in the ambience,

Embraced by a...

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Categories: inspirational, nature, river,

The Voice of the River
The murmuring sound
Of the gushing clear river
Speaks to enjoy life....

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Categories: river, inspiration, inspirational, life, nature,

The River That Runs
The River that runs”
 
The heavenly river that runs consistently with its pleasant tranquilizing flow.
Furnishing my soul with contentment.
Anointing my body from head to toe.
The...

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Categories: river, inspiration, motivation, poetry, religion,

By Nature's Mother Tongue
"The streams are my veins." 


Coursing through my limbs, the streams are my veins
Just as the wind is the breath in each lung
Blowing dry sand...

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Categories: nature, river,

I Took the Longer Way Around
I took the longer way around
I discovered the elongated path
I have gone through the mystery of life
I have seen those things that bring about doubt
I...

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Categories: river, confidence, destiny, growth, inspiration,


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