Work River Poems
These Work River poems are examples of River poems about Work. These are the best examples of River Work poems written by international poets.
The ChoiceThere are 2 of us on the boat, trying our best to catch a big rainbow trout,
We tried so many flies but none seemed to...
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Categories:
river, fish, fishing, friend, rainbow,
Outside My Office WindowOutside my office window, is a field with a canal running through it,
Today people have turned up with diggers and dumper trucks and are digging...
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Categories:
business, river, vacation, water,
Meditations Beneath Westgate BridgeNeck bent back,
looking up from beneath
Westgate Bridge,
its sheer height overwhelms
with its wide stretch hung
in the heavens, tyres printing out
a constant hum across
its concrete...
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Categories:
fate, life, river,
That Was RandomThere are actual people
half woman half man
running mornings and
dream people in movies
half language half light.
Tomorrow is John’s funeral.
* * *
This is my minute
my moment
Oops, gone!
Anything can happen
if...
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Categories:
angel, death, dream, river,
River AvonStrolling by the River Avon, I found somebody,
Strolling to nowhere, I found a person.
I looked at the river, I followed...
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Categories:
river, 2nd grade, adventure, allegory,
Climate ChangeI built a mountain to collect dew.
Glaciers are formed when ice and water glue.
Sculpt valleys out of the rock face of hills.
River canyons run ophidian to...
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Categories:
analogy, beauty, river,
Life Out of BalanceTonight I stayed at work until 7:00.
It was dark when I locked the front doors.
Winter approaches again, soon the great coat
huddled like a rug around...
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Categories:
dark, life, river, school,
The Current That Comes Streaming DownThe current comes streaming down
The road as I tread the steep.
In the past I used to frown
Upon this carver of ravines deep.
Today it's a trickling...
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Categories:
river, beauty, creation, earth, feelings,
Pebbles of Stigma In StillnessWhen suited with loneliness, sorrow is seductive.
I reek trefoils and heed we bear a deep urge to relate.
My quest for commonality steered me to a lake...
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Categories:
river, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, bullying,
In Praise of Barge WorkersWind sweeps down the side of the mountain
Crosses tracks and flings itself across the river,
First slapping against the sides of the tugboats
Causing the deckhands to...
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Categories:
boat, death, river, work,
Creative Force of NatureThe drop that falls,
creates...
...
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Categories:
river, allegory, allusion, creation, metaphor,
The RiverI finished work at noon on Friday and headed home to pack
Put my gear in the trunk and put my canoe on the roof rack
Headed...
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Categories:
adventure, america, death, river,
Water Roams Its Destination EverywhereWater’s destination is everywhere
ever flowing, rolling, tripping skipping
water never stops its touring.
A source of life forever enduring
challenges of leaps across endless
terrain, rocks and stones it...
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Categories:
ocean, poems, poetry, river,
Torch Lake Iii - Fishing For TimeOur boat is first to slice
The green snake skin of Clam Lake
This Saturday morning in May
Heading east to the mouth of Grass River
Where angry Pike...
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Categories:
river, father son, fish, fishing,
Sotoba KomachiSotoba Komachi is a modern Noh play by Yukio Mishima (1925-1970). Mishima's play is based on an ancient work by Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (1333-1384). The first...
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Categories:
river, beautiful, beauty, girl, heartbreak,