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Upstream Poems - Poems about Upstream


Premium Member Come in to the Coil
On spewing wave, our departing ride Crazed currents crack, an azure slide Freedom mingles in sea foam seethe Cobra throat coast gulps river relieve Estuary entry rests, rushing ruthless ...

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Categories: upstream, adventure, beautiful, environment, flower,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 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 dip those oars in right tight to the boat and if you're ahead...

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Categories: upstream, boat, river,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member 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 potential in this frame. Like pointing north, returning home, he has no eyes to guide his flight. A haploid on a beacon honed, attractive...

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Categories: upstream, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Upstream
River R u n s Rapid Salmon S w i m s Swift...

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Categories: upstream, fish, race, river, water,
Form: Verse
Premium Member 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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Categories: upstream, animal, fish, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member 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 02 September 2018...

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Categories: upstream, destiny, god, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 opposites rush to assail my efforts intent on wearing me down scraping, scarring, challenging calling me out with harsh ridicule and doubt why must...

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Categories: upstream, conflict, confusion, life, psychological,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member 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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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 war Of a dependency on bettering my life...

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Categories: upstream, hope, life
Form: Free verse

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