Rapids Poems - Poems about Rapids

when pleasant pursuit of what was a lot of loot while rapids would shoot...Read the rest...

My mother is a river. Not a calm, deep river, lush with fish and plants, flowing by gently and powerfully...but a thick, white rapids, furiously polishing the jagged rocks into marbles. There is no room...Read the rest...

There once was a man from Mozambique Who went canoeing most every week A white water battle Cost him vest and paddle Now he's really up the freakin' creek...Read the rest...

Rapids Ahead I hear the canyon echo the cascading eddies volume, Growing louder as I paddle closer to run the descent, To enter the lake past water, hidden rocks and seething foam, While an eagle soaring the gorge, shrieks...Read the rest...

6/9/23 I walk to clear my troubled mind, To drown the sound of ticking clocks That beat with worry in my ear. A running river won't rewind, And time bestows a gift that mocks, We can't relive the past we wear. But...Read the rest...

Shooting sixty four rapids in the time stream Powder milk biscuits helped yours truly, a Norwegian farmer wannabe feel bold enough to weather inclement steady rain which swirled, pooled, and eddied around rolled up pant legs skinny ankles, which immediately felt...Read the rest...

athletic type at the front wings of a splash, quite a slap it’s a bother to breathe, but he might catch a fish...Read the rest...

The greatest performance of my life. Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section. After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...Read the rest...

Well within the city limits mysteries Suburban people to the core escape Into a wilderness of houses bunched together Outside town, outside the reaches of police In...Read the rest...

My boy and I hung over the Elk Rapids dam railing Shirtless With lines swung in the churning water The iron hum of turbines rattling through our elbows He lands a nice Crappie And as he rescues the bass He looks...Read the rest...

river rapids roar like angry lions in summer suicidal thoughts [awakened in the middle of the night, May 20, 2021]...Read the rest...

this was the spot where we’d come i’d shoot photos of the golden glitter as waves ran down the river bank this was the spot where we’d come we’d just sit and watch the sun as it set we were together seemed we hadn’t a care in...Read the rest...

Rapids of the mind, moving at a furious pace as if there is no time to waste. A boat with oars... a raving raft… on all fours. In my dry suit, flapping like a seal. No way on earth I head for...Read the rest...

It had been years since the seasons changed Then the Monarch butterflies Shook from a blue sky in July Like a box of colored confetti Re-appeared a miracle atop the sticky meadows And the day before was so hot That on...Read the rest...

Where a year seems like an eternity to you getting through to tomorrow is progress Never have such words rang so true You were a paddle less canoe Caught in the rapids under stress Where a year seems like an...Read the rest...