Water Poems | Examples of Water Poetry

Waves shape the sound of soaring sea Ride the tides of what ought to be Layer on layer out of reach Breaking breakers bound on our beach Stirring swirls make clear waters curl Rolling rumblings leap to unfurl Watery spritz that twist then sway As bubbled foam pulls back away Each wave differing grasping high Trying to touch the spacious sky Dreams drenched in schemes...

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river, flow by my feet~ as waters of my mind do overtake and wet the page and droplets step-dance to create, backstage. for manufactured, processed verse could never pulse with life, the rhythm of a river. Rolling with the Rs: Sponsor Nette Onclaud 05/08/25 [On AI]...

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Lucid refractions prance in this day's gloaming Window panes sway in play to each heave and hoe Stirred by haunting echoes of distant loons wailing My gaze awakens in sheets that float her still to and fro Shimmering, the surface murmurs...Take the Plunge A primal beckoning that whispers to us each by name Push the door, step up to the dock's...

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O, vilest of vile high-haughty poems To you professors’ studies are so oft homes The fetid waters of PhD’s, nekkid, you swim well in ~ Though the proper home...

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The morning woods were crackling with unknown sounds. Then I heard a rustling sound in the leaves. The sound of footsteps was getting louder, It wasn’t a something, it was someone. Suddenly a large man fell to the ground. His leg was bleeding; all he said was “trap”. Cool water from my canteen brought him back. A small trap, it hadn’t broken...

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Because of global warming The ice caps are melting Much faster and it's falling By the chunks causing Sea levels to rise tremendously And creating devastating flooding Because the water has to settle Somewhere, it's starting to remind me Of the movie WATERWORLD and How those people had to live/...

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Here rest my oars. A killick thrown to the school of fishes, To still my boat from the peering waves. Fishy-wishy scatter as water splatters, Like wood chips flying when the pickaxe strikes. A ship draws near, but my killick blocks its kiss— Its stale mouth might stagger my rest, And send my gathered fish fleeing the net. Much of the mud my...

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frog on lily pad out shoots the tongue tasty fly now gone ...

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A runner plagued by endless thirst, tried all manner of things to end the curse. A camel bag or bottle slowed his pace. His yen for simple, lasting relief, became a race - Relentless! Seeing smooth pebbles in the bed of a stream, he took a pea-sized one; stowing it under his tongue. His saliva flowed; his thirst was gone, up-aweigh! Until the...

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Red hourglasses drawn thin and narrow waisted sparkling motes fall...

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I see a raindrop I see it fall I see a raindrop I see it splash I see a raindrop I see it become part of a puddle I see a puddle I see it float I see a puddle I see it grow I see a puddle I see it become part of a cloud I see a cloud I see it fly I see a cloud I see it move I...

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I'm standing by the mountain that reaches up so high. I'm looking toward the heavens and asking for a reason why? In the shadow of that mountain, I can't see my way through... but I'll start climbing for the summit because I know I walk with you. He'll lead me to the highest, he'll lift me and I'll...

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sand blistering hot throat parched I need water ah an oasis where could it have went it just upped and disappeared it was a mirage ...

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Raised Stone-Tablet eternally abiding under Towering Heavens endless span; and in its Solititude...charts the migrations of our Highest Lord's cestial rockets. Because of Stone-Tablet, bestowed unto us, we are Gifted the Holy-Texts Dictated by the Jade Emperor himself. Nought but...

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