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Water Poems | Examples of Water Poetry

Premium Member Crabs
a 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 NIGHT
It'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



Premium Member Leaf
The 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
Premium Member To Be Named Again
One 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
Premium Member Summer Sonnet: River-Woman
Awakened! 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member Turtle
slow moving reptile lives inside leathery shell good pet for a child ...

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Categories: fun, nature, pets, water,
Form: Haiku
sound of the tide hiku
For Sir Brian Strand's 1396 Poetry Contest 15 July 2025 s c y ...

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Categories: water, nature, ocean, sea, sound,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Waterfall
whitewater appeared a rumbling roar filled the air the waterfall’s near ...

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Categories: nature, river, water,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member 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
when no water
coffee from stale flask itchy armpits ...

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Categories: water, allusion, appreciation, character, drink,
Form: Other
Follow the flow of the Tees
Follow 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Life On The River
A 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
Premium Member 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

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