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Upriver Poems - Poems about Upriver

Upriver Poems - Examples of all types of poems about upriver to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for upriver.
Premium Member Relentless
... It's rough and tumble, life's frenetic race, we stumble and struggle to outrun a whirlwind, leaving moments as specters of the pas......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, life,
Form: Free verse



The British Seashore
...On the cliff at the Worm’s Head High above the horns of the bay I see the surfers ride great waves With horses’ manes That ever fail, but never end In the strong Atlantic surge......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, beach, boat, environment, nostalgia,
Form: Verse
Champagne Lady Ii
...Conflicting waves ruffle the smooth blue static hindering the ethereal progression of her path Airiness sinks heavily to lean into leaden aqua mistiness lingering, a foggy dolorous requiem Pract......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, allusion,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member One Circle
...Eagles fly Minds soar While Eagle flies soaring off ahead echoing upriver cries to where s/he became back before Egged on Eagles fly Fertile minds soar.........Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, confidence, flying, integrity, journey,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Beyond Reasonable Doubt
... Bang! Bang! Who shot and killed Jeanette and Harvey Crewe? By whose hand was their blood spilled? The cops they surely knew. Two fatal shots rang out that day and to a grisly m......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, murder, mystery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eagle Feather Carried By the Wind
...The northern wind catches me and takes me upriver I repose for a bit next to teensy startled minnows She returns for me and flicks me up into the sky I am light and lithe, unhurried, unworried, an......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Premium Member I Know a River Where the Fish Fly In the Sky
... I know a river where the fish fly in the sky. Sheltered by boundless ember morning sky, a lull stillness, it refuses to say goodbye; I breathe deep in submission ......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, boy, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silenced Voices
...Silenced Voices Mountains upriver rise beneath portentous clouds ......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, anxiety, conflict, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Marks of An African Woman
...Upriver - a place where she goes to fetch water and firewood Hair is neatly decorated with a collection of cowries and coins Stretch marks that cover the entirety of her growing belly Beauti......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, 12th grade, africa, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Student Life
...That evening we took a flat-bottomed boat and swam it up the Thames. Douglas the middle-aged ***** served martinis out of a crystal pitcher. Lurching for lips, he kissed me. I was surprised how......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If You'Re Like Me
...Fear of Climate Success If you're like me, which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience to Zero, Regardless, if we're like we used to be when we were born with all the po......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, childhood, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Cooperative Beings
...Raison d'etre, RightBrain's voiceless shadowed FutureSearch begets healthy past nutrition research, both secular-natural Left centered and sacred-spiritual Right symmetric, cooperating Earth Pat......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, earth, education, food, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Common Sense Takes Flight
...COMMON SENSE TAKES FLIGHT Dredged between river beds Screams of woe and cellphones Clawed by sticks and stones Floating upriver Glasses unhinged Shirt around throat like a poisonous......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, america, anger, angst, flying,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swarming Ravens
...The ravens swarm before me above the railroad tracks I walk downriver pilgrim toward silent wilderness, away from more civilized savagery, pre-revolutionary, I fear, as they chatter and clatter......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, journey, raven, river,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Building Castles In the Sky
...Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach Or What Is in A Name When building Babylonian Towers with the Lego of our minds we construct our world and worlds our truths and meanings our dream......Read the rest...
Categories: upriver, god, religion,
Form: Free verse

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