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Waterside Poems - Poems about Waterside

Where The River Cries
...The poet hears the river’s cry In the flow of waters going by Ebb and flow, calm and storm The poet finds the river’s form In verse – in words that soothe and lift The river’s wound the wate......

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Categories: waterside, metaphor, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Couplet
Feels Like Home: Glenn Hughes
...You sing of how it feels to be At the waterside Like the willow tree How the nightly schemes Comfort troubled heart; Velvet pillow dreams As to window gaze Past the memory haze Of love'......

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Categories: waterside, home,
Form: Rhyme



Jagged
...The ancient jagged rocks stand, like black sentinels along the waterside, Protecting the land from the continuous raging tide. They are perpetually black, either slicked with water or as a sharp ......

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Categories: waterside, beauty, creation, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
William Soutar Translation
...Ballad by William Soutar translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch O, surely you have seen my love Down where the waters wind: He walks like one who fears no man And yet his eyes are kind......

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Categories: waterside, loss, lost, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Ma Jebeh's Children
...Ma Jebeh's Children They sit to Redlight, Waterside and Omega, Selling fufu, cornflakes and meat pie, Sometimes even crayfish and chicken thighs, In muddy waters and messy trousers. They hav......

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Categories: waterside, child abuse, corruption,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Broken Bridges An Ekphrasis Tribute
...beside the sea running sa slowly flowing as floods released where rivers meet out of reach waterside meets countryside with force&grace ......

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Categories: waterside, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
The List
...Run Run as fast as you can Live Live like it's your last day Love Love unconditionally Dig Dig deep into your soul Laugh Laughter is good medicine Dream Dream yourself away Rest Rest alo......

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Categories: waterside, age, courage, faith, future,
Form: Free verse
The Slay Mamas
...Akuchi is a teacher, She's a slay mama. Bintu is a banker, She's a slay mama. Tolani is a trader, She's a slay mama. So is Preye,the young woman who lives by the waterside. She's a college ......

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Categories: waterside, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Stone
...Hidden under the honeysuckle and hibiscus Lies a stone. And as I sit, drinking a gin and tonic Looking over the spent plates where crusty bread fried calamari, which is a fancy word for squid, ......

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Categories: waterside, absence, america, art, beautiful,
Form: Acrostic
Farewell To Ellen
...By Cherbo Geeplay It rains so much in Monrovia that a day is like the bloated dough on a grey earthly May, washing over October. My love, the sun, hides in her bright den refusing to be seen......

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Categories: waterside, africa, allegory, allusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pond
...Wheeled myself this morning To the waterside, flawlessly mirroring Bright white, blue coloured early sky Daisies strewn around like smithereens Hip hopping bird, questioningly Asking for cr......

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Categories: waterside, animal, water,
Form: Free verse
Long Is the Road That Lies Ahead
...Long the road that lies ahead Three mice with a block of cheese and a thick slice of bread To travel in green pastures and meet lots of animals of which some are friendly and some may eat you for......

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Categories: waterside, art,
Form: I do not know?
Butterfly
...Read more at: http://www.poetrysoup.com/member_area/submit_poems.aspx Walking along the waterside One evening of a sunny Sunday With a basket full of flowers Into it fell a butterfly! Fly! Fly......

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Categories: waterside, butterfly, care, childhood, color,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recycling
...Waters edge gator lies raccoon gets big surprise! In forest something hides bird on branch with two slit eyes... Unsuspecting no cry empty branch lump inside! Snake digest......

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Categories: waterside, life, nature, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Season That Didn'T Exist
...So the time just like a river lowers each waterside from a higher to a small one or from colorful to horizon. Yes. So the time. The children, each fall the yellow leaves they gather. ......

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Categories: waterside, autumn, children,
Form: Free verse

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