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Upriver Poems - Poems about Upriver
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...crane flows over the water ripples with forks upriver, a kiss of a daffodil mirage the flower's fleeting visage. in the gust of a hurricane, a pumpkin ornamentation batters a door of a strang......
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Brandon Michael
Categories:
upriver,
beautiful, beauty, deep, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Chetta Achara
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......
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Diane Leggett
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......
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Susan Woodrow
Categories:
upriver,
allusion,
Form:
Acrostic
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.........
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
upriver,
confidence, flying, integrity, journey,
Form:
Metrical Tale
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......
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Keith D Trestrail
Categories:
upriver,
murder, mystery,
Form:
Rhyme
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......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
upriver,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Personification
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 ......
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Eve Roper
Categories:
upriver,
boy, fishing,
Form:
Rhyme
Silenced Voices
...Silenced Voices Mountains upriver rise beneath portentous clouds ......
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Anselmo Boles
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......
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Edwin Olu Bestman
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......
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©
Eric Ashford
Categories:
upriver,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
upriver,
childhood, green, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
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......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
upriver,
earth, education, food, health,
Form:
Political Verse
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......
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©
Kim Rodrigues
Categories:
upriver,
america, anger, angst, flying,
Form:
Free verse
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......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
upriver,
journey, raven, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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