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Riverbanks Poems - Poems about Riverbanks

When Fields Becomes Cities
...Once there stood a golden field, Swaying crops, a farmer's yield. Morning songs of birds took flight, Beneath the sky so vast and bright. The village paths, of dust and stone, Where children l......

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Categories: riverbanks, nature, nostalgia, social, urban,
Form: Quatrain
Hermann Hesse translation of 'Secretly We Thirst'
...Hermann Hesse English Translations Secretly We Thirst… by Hermann Hesse from The Glass Bead Game translation by Michael R. Burch Charismatic, spiritual, with the gracefulness of arabesques, ......

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Categories: riverbanks, birth, dance, death, dream,
Form: Free verse



Siddhartha translation by Michael R Burch
...Siddhartha (The Buddha) by Hermann Hesse translation by Michael R. Burch In the house-shade, by the sunlit riverbank beyond the bobbing boats, in the Salwood forest’s deep shade, beneath the......

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Categories: riverbanks, boat, father son, friend,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations XIV
...Sappho Translations XIII by Michael R. Burch In these translations the fragment numbers are mostly Lobel-Page. All translations are by Michael R. Burch and should be so credited if they are used i......

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Categories: riverbanks, dream, father, girl, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Viking Warrior of Woodland
... When the sun hangs low by scarlet-threaded silk, you'll find my soul waltzing in the womb of woodland like a viking warrior, where I'm rooted ~ beyond decaying diamonds, as life unfo......

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Categories: riverbanks, dark, deep, emotions, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In the labyrinthine depths of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light of existence
...In the labyrinthine depths of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light of existence, A mystical and magical poem unfolds, a river of thoughts and emotions, Inspired by the sense that I s......

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Categories: riverbanks, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the deepest corners of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light of existence
...In the deepest corners of my soul, where shadows whisper secrets to the light of existence, A mystical and magical poem is woven, a tapestry of thoughts and emotions, Born from the innocent spontan......

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Categories: riverbanks, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Petals on the Wind
...Early in the morning as the sun began to rise as the birds began to wake and fly into the sky soaring high above her head in the misty morning dew while the rivers trickle onward to greet the......

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Categories: riverbanks, lost love, love, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moon River
...Moonlight shines, silvery stains, On calm riverbanks. Cool wind mildly blows, The river flows, Moonlight shines. River streams, Heart chases stream with, silvery stains. ......

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Categories: riverbanks, river,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Home We Made
...Pike Place Market and Space Needle race tracks out at Indy stands Jefferson's Memorial Nashville's Grand Ole Opry Biking somewhere downtown Beijing (Bay-jing) Great Wall nearby Xia......

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Categories: riverbanks, allusion, analogy, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rivers dream
...fishing days with dad riverbanks tall grass we cast day-long fishing trip......

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Categories: riverbanks, fishing,
Form: Haiku
After the Fizz
...By the gray rivers flowing, the recently revived, bob along like Champaign corks in the swift current. The dead always pop too soon, even when you pull their corks with long lamentations. The ......

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Categories: riverbanks, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coconuts
...On sandy beaches and along fertile riverbanks, In fecund soil and in lush green plantations, Coconut trees stand tall towering into the sky. They are benevolent palms at the service of......

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Categories: riverbanks, appreciation, identity, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inscribed On Palms
...Every hand tells a story life's adventures inscribed on palms Lines of wisdom, hints of psalms Yet destiny wears out her rhymes on riverbanks of sorrow Dreams not lent nor borrow......

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Categories: riverbanks, destiny, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mystic River
...Mystic River lazy mists dawdle in sinuous rivulets ~ fog surfs in deep dales river of white clouds threads through alleys of tall pines ~ fog garden slow dance curly silver mists ......

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Categories: riverbanks, river, sky,
Form: Haiku

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