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Upstream Poems - Poems about Upstream
Upstream Poems - Examples of all types of poems about upstream 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 upstream.
Come in to the Coil
On spewing wave, our departing ride Crazed currents crack, an azure slide Freedom mingles in sea foam seethe ...
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Sigrid Ermine
Categories:
upstream,
adventure, beautiful, environment, flower,
Form:
Couplet
Rowing Upstream and Downstream
Rowing downstream is one of life’s grandest pleasures while upstream’s difficulty is quite hard to measure You’ve got to...
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©
Gershon Wolf
Categories:
upstream,
boat, river,
Form:
Couplet
Upstream
In no real sense is he alive: a wind-up toy, personified. A message bundled with a drive, he neither eats or can divide. Two hundred million like himself, each one distinct, yet all the same. Possessed of vast genetic wealth, new life’s...
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©
Jeff Kyser
Categories:
upstream,
life,
Form:
Quatrain
Upstream
River R u n s Rapid Salmon S w i m s Swift...
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©
Linda Alice Fowler
Categories:
upstream,
fish, race, river, water,
Form:
Verse
Swimming Upstream
a sockeye salmon leaps into the jaws of death ~ bear yawning upstream A Haiku with Movement - Nature themed Poetry Contest (Winner: 10th Place) Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin Date written: 05/07/2020...
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©
Edward Ibeh
Categories:
upstream,
animal, fish, imagery, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Swimming Upstream
My soul has left the serene ocean of the eternal And like a salmon swims upstream The river's turbulent waters of the temporal, Determent to overcome any obstacles found For its destiny to fulfill! © Demetrios Trifiatis ...
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Demetrios Trifiatis
Categories:
upstream,
destiny, god, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Swimming Upstream
SWIMMING UPSTREAM It seems I always swim upstream against the current. re-creating struggles of conflicting contradictions and unsweetened scripts at odds with others in deeds and words a emotional dissonance played out over a lifetime. banged and buffered hard against the onflow; prevailing...
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©
Allan Koven
Categories:
upstream,
conflict, confusion, life, psychological,
Form:
Blank verse
Swimming Upstream
It’s just like swimming upstream. I have to fight that current. You make it so difficult. How can I love you?...
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©
Robert Pettit
Categories:
upstream,
love
Form:
Dodoitsu
Upstream
My river of existence flows upward As I struggle with the narrowing width While the depth of my water shallows To that level which cannot sustain joy The uphill battle to flow consistently Becomes my daily task, my climactic...
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©
Michael Degenhardt
Categories:
upstream,
hope, life
Form:
Free verse