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Where The River CriesThe 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...
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Categories:
water, metaphor, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
light, river, water,
Form: Haiku
Captive
Categories:
surreal, water,
Form: Free verse
Sunrise at the DockAs twilight’s veil begins to gently lift,
The fading grays give way to golds and blues.
And colors mark the waves as shadows shift,
Reflective of a new horizon’s hues.
Yet gazes fixed on distant unseen springs,
Omit the...
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Categories:
water, beach, earth, good morning,
Form: Sonnet
CoatimundiI once met a young coatimundi,
Vacationing by the Bay of Fundy.
In hopes of staying trim,
He went for a brief swim,
But sixty-foot tides swept him to Dundee.
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Categories:
water, animal, hope, ocean, vacation,
Form: Limerick
Baptism and reflection“An eternal man
Will bathe you in flames and light
To cleanse your own flesh of sin”
“Do not reflect flesh
Seek to mix water and flames
To reflect eternal light”
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Categories:
water, baptism, fire, light, mirror,
Form: Sedoka
Categories:
water, allusion, metaphor, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 1Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
Because morning glories
held my well-bucket hostage
I went begging for water!
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael...
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Categories:
water, animal, fire, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Learning about waterLearning about water
How did the water we always drink become drinkable!
The water at the beginning of the world was not drinkable.
The water on Mars and other planets is not drinkable.
There were no clouds..
The spring waters...
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Categories:
water, earth, ocean, people, planet,
Form: Free verse
Kite of Luminous Splendour
Categories:
water, beautiful, family, friendship, ocean,
Form: Shape
water spotsfrom summertime rain
water spots on windows cling
just like dishwasher...
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Categories:
water,
Form: Haiku
Categories:
beauty, river, water,
Form: Senryu
Love-Like-WaterA love like water.
so soft,
so fragile,
as it flows and bends,
leaving gentle kisses,
a giver of life.
A love like water.
a love so strong,
so powerful,
as it destroys obstacles,
breaking walls,
to shape a path,
a future.
A...
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Categories:
water, 12th grade, beautiful, love,
Form: Free verse
Rapids AheadThere 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...
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Categories:
boat, water,
Form: Limerick
Life Living TravelsThrough the many days
Up and down marking each their hours
So do minds sail their curious course.
With each weighed anchor leaving swirling trails
Showing the world what the bottom had, then to follow
While highest birds fly singing...
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Categories:
water, adventure, dream, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Water Poems
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