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Upstream Poems - Poems about Upstream

Upstream Poems - Examples of all types of poems about upstream 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 upstream.
Salmon Ordeal
...Salmon fight their way Upstream, work the last strength Spawn and die there. ......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, creation, fish, life, power,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Kayaking Down the River of Lies
...I eased our kayak into the river of lies. There was me, Dave and Jim, experienced guys. The current grew stronger, Jim said he would quit, He said it felt wrong, the scene didn't fit. Dave urge......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, adventure, allegory, truth,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Earthly Thoughts Shimmer
...Jewel layer templates gilded upstream sigh winsome eyelet skimmed scorning dawn orb Delphic mustard sketch on sapphire sequins Appalachian awning bearing flimsy nuggets surreal slender st......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, celebration, city, creation, deep,
Form: Free verse
If There Was Just One Thing I Could Change
...If there was just one thing I could change I would request an odd divinity to ferment in an Elixir Which never intoxicate, nor take the state beyond rationality No one is an aftermath of coping, c......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, friend,
Form: Imagism
The Celestial Nile
...Journey by Ferry on the Celestial Nile 7 Ancient Portal Ascension to Immortality In a Vessel, The Radiant boat employed to Traverse the Cosmic Galaxy On a Quest to seek within the Universe in My ......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, moon, planet, stars, voyage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Fisher King is Going Bald
...Hair is meant to grow long and unruly Who am I to interfere with nature’s treaty with time? A king’s crown a tangled mess, so fashion forward of I to sport the look of a fishing net Yet I stil......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, anxiety, body, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Time to Dream At last
...At last days start to lengthen as onward marches the clock Now things will begin a new cycle as the boat reaches the dock. At last the icy river starts to melt, water flows freely under the lock w......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, appreciation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Degree In Whining
... My Degree In Whining Miracle Man December 13th 2023 Political lies and corruption, always cause divides. Antisemitism is forcing us, into choosing sides. Each day the wedge, is......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, america, angst, corruption, immigration,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Book of Changes
... "The Book of Changes" Thoughts arrived before words, 1000s of years before the crossing of curves always seen to be swimming upstream against the current thou......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Nature Walking On the Roof
...The rain came busting through the sky like missiles raining in from the East, it was sudden, it was quick and in second if filled up the pit. Water kept flowing from the hill rushing through the gutt......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, absence, change, chocolate, community,
Form: Narrative
dream vision
...Cobweb of visions It was a clear day, perhaps too lucid mother sat in the kitchen, sunlight made her white hair into a halo I asked how old she was, ninety-two she said I knew I was trapped......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, best friend, blessing, creation,
Form: Free verse
dream vision
...Cobweb of visions It was a clear day, perhaps too lucid mother sat in the kitchen, sunlight made her white hair into a halo I asked how old she was, ninety-two she said I knew I was trapped......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, best friend, blessing, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Is Enough For Us
...In the hot A-Ga-Ming night My wife and I skip the July 4th fireworks At the sandbar down south on long Torch Lake Start our own shoreline fire Count the red electrified dorsal fins Of the mo......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, age, love, marriage, moving
Form: Free verse
There In the Wild River
...There in the wild river By Michelle Morris 11/08/2023 There in the wild river Where the white rapids flow They're chasing down new dreams They're chasing rainbows And the salmon They s......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, beautiful, earth day, life,
Form: Free verse
Water Rations In a Prison Cell
...after Ho Chi Minh I The stone basin holds still water. The still water drinks the arid sponge as rays of pure energy slake their thirst on the ebon wings of crows II Ya......Read the rest...
Categories: upstream, imagery, prison,
Form: Free verse

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