Crabsa crab sheds his shell
vulnerable for six weeks
a new shell appears
stronger than ever
he struts across the beach sand
less vulnerable
...
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Categories:
water, beach, body, change, creation,
Form: Haiku
CRAZY NIGHTIt's a ghost she screamed
Then she fainted
But no darling
It was the spirit she drank
She's so high
Hennessy to be precise
Her vision was blurry.
Now she's unconscious
Right in my bedroom
She drank to stupor
The DJ overwhelmed her
I have no clue, what to do
I've poured her water
But she wants a kiss
She said; my kisses is the water of...
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Categories:
water, africa, black love, bridal
Form: Narrative
LeafThe beauty of your life is so easy to see,
In the colors and lines of your symmetry.
After a time with the tree of your life,
Severed from your stem by the wind as a knife.
To ride the wind and swirl to the ground,
To please another as your beauty is found.
I can see in your color a...
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Categories:
water, beauty, color, life, nature,
Form: Sonnet
To Be Named AgainOne day…
After the fires are done
And the water has carried all maps away…
Someone will find you.
Not to save...
To name again.
And then, you will remember
You were not lost....
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Categories:
water, fate, fire, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
Summer Sonnet: River-WomanAwakened! I returned a stream in Spring
to flow and grow on nature’s snowmelt milk.
I came to be of earth and sky (...a fling),
my sire a winter storm. Like liquid silk
emerging, I was born; a water-child.
Between two banks I nestled with my dreams
and bloomed a gAnGLy creek ‘til solstice. Wild
I played— not meek but sleek....
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Categories:
water, earth, freedom, growth, life,
Form: Sonnet
from heights
from heights
majestic beauty
rushing to a roar
AP: Honorable Mention 2025...
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Categories:
beautiful, beauty, nature, water,
Form: Haiku
Turtle
Categories:
fun, nature, pets, water,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
water, nature, ocean, sea, sound,
Form: Haiku
Waterfallwhitewater appeared
a rumbling roar filled the air
the waterfall’s near
...
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Categories:
nature, river, water,
Form: Senryu
New Neighbor
He knocked and asked for some bottles of water,
he said that we both had the same Alma mater.
While quenching his thirst,
I was thinking the worst,
did he buy next door, or was he a house squatter?
...
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Categories:
house, water,
Form: Limerick
Categories:
water, allusion, appreciation, character, drink,
Form: Other
Follow the flow of the TeesFollow the flow of the Tees
Meet the folk whose sweat
and tears shaped the land,
brought in the bounty,
shifted the steel to build
Better places.
Follow the flow of the Tees.
Meet the people who fish
in peace. Look for a seal or two.
See them bobbing, watching you
watching them. Observe them catching the
rays of the sun on the...
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Categories:
water, animal, appreciation, culture, fishing,
Form: Free verse
The Storm Water Pipe
The storm water pipe
gaped into open air
from an embankment
where it surfaced
from underground.
The opening was a little
smaller than my childhood height
and they said it stretched
a mile or more but nobody
knew for sure.
A danger sign warned
against entry saying
the pipe was subject to sudden
flooding - a protective grate
had a hole big enough
to crawl through.
I would...
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Categories:
water, childhood, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Life On The RiverA balance in life can solve the riddle.
To find the balance, start in the middle.
Distractions from the banks may lead us wrong.
Go with the flow where the current is strong.
The banks are sirens calling to our ears,
offering us pleasures relieving fears.
The emotion of love, the fear of pain,
tossing and turning, driving us insane.
Too much...
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Categories:
water, addiction, adventure, beauty, freedom,
Form: Sonnet
Look I Am Popping Away
I love when we sit in the hot bright sun,
add some butter or we will get well done.
Sky and water of ice blue,
better than the dull store view.
Oh! look I am popping so I will run....
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Categories:
water, food, giggle, humor, sunshine,
Form: Limerick
Specific Types of Water Poems
Read wonderful water poetry on the following sub-topics:
conservation, cycle, fire and, haiku, kids, lily, pollution, rhyme, save
and more.
Definition | What is Water in Poetry?
Poems Related to Water
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