Short Riverbank Poems

Short Riverbank Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Riverbank by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Riverbank by length and keyword.


Premium Member Fate


by the riverbank 
their paths crossed, both then  turned back
eyes locked, their hearts ignited




By Zyrool
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Reverie

Cascade water flow Riverbank, vision in green Ensnared by beauty Daydreamer, thoughts float away Perfect happiness.
Form: Tanka

Chasing Cultures

A riverbank of memories
saturates cultured minds
such succulent visuals
of precipitation
so moist, so pleasant
spines shiver in longing
howls ascend
veneration
Form: Imagism

Assiniboine Riverbank

Orphaned Christmas conifers heap'd
Side by side Assiniboine bank
Native green and vertical felled
Blackened aboriginal limbs
White Man gasoline chainsaw teeth.

Premium Member Life's Fantasy

White puffy clouds, billowing pillows

   Light lavender skies o'er water-fed willows

Reed-grasses to breeze's breath sway

   Life's fantasy, a riverbank in May
Form: Couplet


Tet Flowers

Many rose petals floating downstream on a gleaming river
They move so slowly, almost getting lost in the sun's white glare
The monks on the riverbank seem lost in idle reverie
Form: Sijo

Premium Member Lie Low

Lie low, as the noise whizzes by
overhead, side to side, undertow
Echoes reverberate ‘cross the canyon
plunge into the bone-dry riverbank

~ Lie low, as the noise whizzes by

Premium Member You need

You need

You need your love
My life is a riverbank

It would be best if you had a guy
My life is a riverbank

You need to walk
Waiting for you

You need
Need you

Love
Riverbank

Premium Member R S T U

ravishing revitalized rare riverbank rainbow
sharing and showing jeweled colors that glow
tantalizing turquoise next to perfectly pampered pink
unique every time, a universal feeing and mystical link
Form: ABC

Premium Member Tales From Riverbank

grey heron stalks prey a silent assassin poised ... sun breaks through dark clouds Writing Challenge 3, May 2019, Nature Haiku Poetry Contest Sponsored by Dear Hear 5/24/19
Form: Haiku

Premium Member A Carnelian

a carnelian crystal flow reflects sunset blanket of white peace woody specters dot painted skies on horizon icy riverbank crayola color blending in duplicity harmonic nature
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Ancient Egypt's Glory

The Nile was serene
    its riverbank green
  Cleopatra the Queen
    supervised poverty obscene

  Ancient Egypt's glory?
    'twas short, brutish and mean
  for builders of pyramids
    worn out at eighteen
Form: Rhyme

Recall

As the roses
Recall  their perfume
The road the end
The sea the wave
The river the riverbank
The spring the pine
The rain the lily
And the willow the garden 
....
My waist who taught him how to ripple
Recall your fingers.

Josephine

Near a silent riverbank
where lilies scent the air
under a blackened willow tree
sweet Josephine rests there
kept in eternal slumber
her rotting bones left bare
I'm left longing to hold her close
my heart in disrepair

(June 15, 2013)
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member memory of you

along the riverbank
i wander and imagine
you by my side

and when that breeze
gently caresses and
kisses my cheek

i know i have touched
the spirit of your love
and you are forever with me



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

May

It is finally May
And I think today
Ill go out and find some flowers
To inspire my writing
To stop and smell them
Just to look at
Because life goes so
Fast that I can never do that
But a riverbank and garden
Might be my next stop
© Shay Funk  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Daily God I Did Thank

Daily God I Did Thank

Blossoms and blooms were beside riverbank;
Into a dream my mind, soul and body sank;
Birds singing;
Love clinging;
God, for all that He gave, Him I did thank.

James Serious Mysterious Horn
Master of My Limericks, MML
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Pitching a Tent

Build your home on the riverbank
and the river will fashion sticks
build it upon a mountaintop
and the mountain will make planks
place your bones amongst the stars
and they will giggle lightly
pitch a tent in heaven
and forever shine brightly.

Premium Member Seasons' Abdication

Emerald paints hills
Tall cottonwoods dance
Soft clusters drift
Riverbank winds laugh
Leaves endorsing orange
Skeletal branches weep
Soft clusters melt
White wonderland bows
Emerald paints hills


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Tales of the Riverbank

A bee sipping nectar from a flower
A sparrow sipping dew from a leaf
A butterfly on his way to somewhere
Pays us a visit but it was only brief

A duck quacks out on the water
And we hear a Kingfisher splash
An elegant swan glides effortlessly by
And the dragonfly makes a dash
Form: Rhyme

A Rose Resting By the Riverbank

A rose resting by the riverbank,
Tickling my toes in the evening sun,
As I muse in the breezes and wander,
Wander and dwell on my twilight run.

I must take care not to crush your nighttime petals,
Nor spoil the yellow rose of Texas,
That I may remember my girlhood skips,
In the sunshine of nostalgia.

Jumping

Rowing down the riverbank;
The water is a danger,
No this is not how I begin-
Am in a four wheel ranger.
Driving on the barren road
Past can eat my dust,
Suddenly a bike appears
I must, I must, I must….
Peddling along with speed
Faster than the car,
Jumping off and now I’m gone
On a shooting star !
Form: Rhyme

Eagle's Watch

the sky is crystal blue Lake Michigan the same down the Eagle flew to catch his game he dropped his fish dinner upon the riverbank sea gulls flocked near the winner for any scrap he did not take as we gort a closer look he was spooked and flew away he perched upon the knotty Jackpine and watched us play
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Riverbank

A 
Yorkshire
scene of old
on river's bank…
This detailed painting tempts my yearning soul.

It takes me on a sweet nostalgic trip
when time lingered
near water’s
lazy 
flow.

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Picture 2
A Double Tetractys 8 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Eve Roper
       Placed 1st
© 31st August 2021
Form: Tetractys

White For Mourning

He saw the failed rescue attempt

Her whole body was white
As white as the dress she had discarded on the riverbank

He studied her still-beautiful still form
Thrilled and repelled
And cried for his bride

Kissing her fish cold lips
He crumpled the note she’d left

And watched them take her away with his dreams

For Anthony’s Whiteness contest
© Jack Horne  Create an image from this poem.

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