Backwaters Poems - Poems about Backwaters

...Every night a well-dressed puppet keeps score of the deaths and casualties of the freshest war. Some nights the tally is low like a soccer match tonight, it's triple digits for the blue-collar m......Read the rest...

...HOW CAN I PRETEND ? PART 1 How can I pretend when flutters across my chest only prickle as your thought arrives with doubt or hope What is hope anyway ? A flimsy wish built upon a mat......Read the rest...

...Mankind seems a fraction lost chasing truffles and treasures through the sawdust of his mind. Beating back wild hogs in the backwaters of temptations as emerald jacket croakers play hide and se......Read the rest...

...Surrounded by tranquil turquoise waters, Guarded on sides by oceans three, In the east by the Pacific, On the south by the Celebes Sea, And on the west by the south China Sea, There......Read the rest...

...Rolling clouds over rolling hills. Kentucky is winding it roads out in endless curves. No hurry, this journey drives me through its curling landscape as a self-reading picture book of racial mem......Read the rest...

...Guarded by towering hills on the East And flanked by the Arabian Sea on the West With its easterly shore of stretching sandy swell That lulls the restless waves to sleep, There is a land, my l......Read the rest...

...As I hold its numb weight it grows younger, more delicately knit to blue somnolent veins. I am left high and dry while nerve endings circle the dilated roots of severed memories. A pinche......Read the rest...

...Light and white The clouds go in line guided by the Wind, At their pasture. They will come back tomorrow heavy And gray loaded with rain, And will fill the backwaters Will grow the tender......Read the rest...

...The year was 2021 and Christmas was fast approaching, Fear and uncertainty were seeping into every corner of daily life, Good will was at an all time low throughout the land, With Covid spreading ......Read the rest...

...They are creatures that come from heaven sprinkling lights on trails, they are not simple people, they are stars who come here to install harmony, ......Read the rest...

...Some parts have regenerated not backwards, local history cannot be expunged with a backhoe and eraser. There are facilities, collection plants, distributions centers, storage units. Where once s......Read the rest...

...Florida Everglades Wind by Mark Mazzarella Trolling over the deep backwaters of the Everglades, turtles snapped and alligators sunned on banks, still as statues.......Read the rest...

...Savage year-quiet God in the backwaters of a brackish riot pond... 9 minutes to trash a life 9 minutes to trash society We're walking toward the brink but we don't have to be... Black lives-w......Read the rest...

...Red alert! Anxiety level rises. Dam shutters open. Water wanders among the concrete buildings, seeking the buried backwaters, lakes, ponds, fields… A member of the land mafia marks himself a......Read the rest...

...The lip of childhood was bloodied. when the CSX ran over my puppy. For years I fired rocks at the freight cars. Trains were supposed to be your second-best friend. Not a killer of soft things tha......Read the rest...