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Lily Water Poems

These Lily Water poems are examples of Water poems about Lily. These are the best examples of Water Lily poems written by international poets.


Bride of Living Water
Be the bride that loves him
In living water we learn to swim
Bouquet of lily of the valley
A bridegroom’s gift has he

The ones with hurts in...

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Categories: water, hope, jesus, prayer,



Pablo Neruda: English translation of 'Machu Picchu'
The Heights of Machu Picchu, Canto VIII
by Pablo Neruda
translation by Michael R. Burch

Ascend with me, my American love!

Let’s kiss these mysterious stones together!

The Urubamba’s torrential...

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Categories: water, america, earth, kiss, life,

Premium Member Still-life:Water Lilies


On placid waters of the reflecting pool, 
petals fully open as in a gesture of silent 
imploring, surrounded by a world 
of shimmering reflections.

Small red...

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Categories: water, imagery,

Child born from water and fire
I witnessed a body lying 
On the dead earth while formless and dismal
A mire swollen and dying  
From this body arose a child so...

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Categories: water, birth, change, child, death,

Dark Waters

Emotional Burdens Set Sail on Dark Waters Lagoon
Adrift, Under the Soft Light of the Waxing Crescent Moon
Subtle the Reflection, the Tapered Lunar
Gently Glistened Dark and...

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Categories: emotions, water,



When music shall ensue
The step-well water gets when clean
And lilies then blossom therein,
In drones when bees come to lilies,
Ah, music shall madden the bees,
(And me by their maddening...

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Categories: music, water,

The Maiden Lay in the Wilds: Translation
These are modern English translations of ancient Middle English poems. 


The Maiden Lay in the Wilds
circa the 14th century
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

The maiden...

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Categories: water, drink, heart, night, passion,

Premium Member lily pad
the calm silent pond 
with floating lily pads 
awaits frogs next jump...

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Categories: water,

Premium Member Sitting Alone - pondering
Sitting alone on a lily pad
Awaiting my next breakfast insect
I ponder my purpose

Two hundred and seventeen mosquitoes
Sixteen horse flies…one spider
And a scolding from a swan

I...

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Categories: life, water,

Ophelia
POEMS ABOUT OPHELIA

Ophélie (“Ophelia”)
by Arthur Rimbaud
translation by Michael R. Burch

On pitiless black waves unsinking stars abide
while pale Ophelia, a lethargic lily, drifts by.
Here, tangled in...

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Categories: water, betrayal, death, lost love,

Rock and Water
Interview With a Rock   
I was conceived in the warm haven of a mother’s womb.  Developing, growing, morphing through the epochs of...

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Categories: water, 12th grade,

Lily pad
There’s life here still
somewhere below the surface.
I dip under lily pads,
delve hands into reeds.
Down in the sludge, shimmering sunlight
illuminates what once thought lost....

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Categories: water, analogy,

Premium Member Water Lily
Weeping willow creeping there
Amber light from melodic moon
Take a fuchsia flower for hair
Emerald embrace as love bloom
Romantic rose petals on blanket
Laid so beautifully 
Indigo kiss...

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Categories: water, appreciation, art, love,

Premium Member Water Lily Fairy
Floating magical fairy upon a water lily,
Blessing all of the living beings deep within a pond,
Casting spells of rejuvenation with flickerings of her wand....

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Categories: water, fairy, fantasy, flower, imagery,

Haiku-Tanka-Senryu

Silent pond water,
A frog springs off a lily,
The ripples recede. 

The passing of time,
A drifting piece of plastic,
They gather many.
The dirty ditch of water,
Ignored by...

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Categories: water, 7th grade, environment, nature,


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