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Up The River Poems - Poems about Up The River

Up The River Poems - Examples of all types of poems about up the river to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for up the river.
Premium Member Replenished
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ rain sounds are cleansing stress flows down the river and soul is replenished ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, river,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Moon River
Moonlight shines, silvery stains, On calm riverbanks. Cool wind mildly blows, The river flows, Moonlight shines. River streams, Heart chases stream with, silvery stains. our whispers. Of...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, river,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The River Speaks
are you brave enough to discover the corners where you hid your dreams? ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, dream, river,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Whispers of Stillness
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Almost sunset. I sit on the riverbank letting the water dribble over my toes and massaging my soles against the pebbles underfoot. I listen to the water trickling along and to the insects droning. Above...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, river,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Tilt-a-Whirl
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ currents swirl and twirl river tilt-a-whirl, dizzy summer unfurling ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, river, summer,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Perpetual Motion
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ with its twists and turns, chaos, and beauty, the flow of the stream is in perpetual motion ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, nature, river,
Form: Kimo
A Man of Forest and Steel
Edward is a forest of a man and a river parting into steel. And he will never love me, until the wind blows blue Or ocean tides have melted sand - into iron soot. ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, deep, family, relationship, river,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member River
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ river full of waves flowing down the mountainside the great fish highway...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, fish, river,
Form: Haiku
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 water shifts...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, metaphor, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member River's Magic
I learned to love the river waves lapping ‘neath our boat Glint of sun set the scene a-sparkle as over the waters we’d float ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, father son, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
Lights on the river
Icicle candles sinuous laser lances chromatic gouges ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, light, river, water,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Revelation
All morning the river wore a thick fog along its length, until a great looming shape emerged, tall, gliding almost soundlessly towards me, becoming the bow of a ship parting the fog, escorted by two tug boats churning the...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, boat, morning, river,
Form: Free verse
Gander through time
Luminous miscellaneous adorn my crown, Frills and strawberries, Thorny circlet dusted with a light layer of twinkle, As my eyes hysteric with confusion muse on this loss. I gather the lumps of loaf crossing the border of...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, 11th grade, childhood, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Rice
Beneath the Wolf’s breath, rocks cradle my resting form. Wild rice sways, whispers— nature's soft secrets unfurl, beauty bathed in dawn's light. Note: Wild rice growing at mouth of Wolf River in Wisconsin on Menominee Indian Reservation....Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, native american, nature, river,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Two Streams that Converge
Two streams that converge And flow inextricably Are like two lovers Meandering about who meet - Not knowing anything of what They were missing before But now having full sight ...Read the rest...
Categories: up the river, analogy, love, river,
Form: Rhyme

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