River Bottom Poems - Poems about River Bottom

Cassiopeia

...Just like her favorite character Alice, she wears a light blue dress and a pinafore, she pairs it up with white tights and black Mary Jane shoes.   A black ribbon pulls hair tight, she adds something...

Blizzard Blank

...Time, be of the essence!
O spark of head and heart!
Fate and Fortune, Chaos, Chance!
Anoint, O my art!

Will, be with me! Stand and hold!
Glow in fiery cold!
River bottom, hast thou gold?
Und...

Your Heart In Me

...Wondering where you are tonight?
Under the starlight I sail so bright
Rowing on surface waters that haunt me
Your faces on calm waters showing me

With my oars I hold so tight
Like your hold in...

The Keyhole

...Just like her favorite character Alice she dresses up. Around her neck a key adorns.  On her way she goes. She has read of a keyhole that holds heaven on the other side of its door. A young girl ...

The Divine

...My feet feel their way
Along the rocky river bottom
Arms balancing
Waist bending
Ankles slipping, twisting,
Toes gripping on algae-covered stones
And maneuvering 
Through ice-cold hell
Hell 
...

Carp Fishing In Michigan

...Clutching
The end of my Zebco rod and reel
As the cast of tackle is flung
Like a small knot of costume jewelry
Skimming atop the caramel-colored Grand River
Dragonfly rattling awry

The vibrat...

Entanglement

...having been created 
with painful self awareness,
and
shielded from harms-protected from self 
I navigate
Yellow Brick
river bottom
stepping stones
while I
step lightly through 
Kansas 
re...

Morel Telos

...Hidden, perched on high,
The Peregrine Falcon echolocates the
bird-in-flight warning song.
Only when intercept is optimal, takes flight.
Soaring over 100mph, wings and claws
cantilever for preci...

Just Down the Road

...The boy I was so many years ago
Loved to visit his grandpa
Who lived in the best of places 
This city dweller could imagine so

Those Ozark Mountains were adventure to me
I the boy and trusted ...

How Lovely

...How lovely, isn't
It, to have an 'off' switch, shotty wiring
And all,
And a presence lined up to ****?

They are always there
To cauterize the wounds of emotional castration
Without desire to examine...

Alli Attacks

...Alligator attacks prey
Lunges out of the bayou
Loud head slap
Intense jaw clamps down
Gripping death roll
Another muskrat say good bye
Tail spin immobolized
On it's way down
River bottom crie...

Drought

...Pedaling along river drive
empty plastic grocery bags
fluttered and flapped from tree branches
like lost battle surrender flags
that line the drought-stricken river.
Their interspersed c...

Natures Moziac Masterpiece

...Natures mozaic masterpiece in multicolored splender.
A rippling change of dancing light the river bottom renders.
The heart does soar from what life implores.
Beauty like this could never come fro...

Spewell Bluff

...God's creation is something to behold
I see with every leaf unfold
I it in every Robin and Wren
I see it in every river's bend

I see it in Spewell Bluff
With its cliff so ragged and ruff
Clim...

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