River woman~ poems welcome~

[Ganesha]

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I am twisting at her feet
my long slate gray body
nuzzling: rocks, trees and
a beaver, with fur aflame

my cold heart
held her heat

[Appalachian Writer]

The white crust of winter
held her there,
lingering above the frigid flow.
The warrior river
moved on,
marching against the chill
that threatened
to hold it in place,
never surrendering to the ice.
Red hair,
wild in the wind,
she pulled her coat closed
with frosted fingers
and waited
for the river's courage
to become her own.

[KTC]

Beautiful river momma
lifts the wind
with her winter will,
calls the liquid shiver
to the water's surface
with her haunting trill.
She, the icy maiden,
river queen,
haunts the wintry shore,
beckons river ravens
to sweep the frozen sky.
And the trees, they quiver,
shorebound deities,
calmly reaching, stretching
to touch the river momma,
icy woman holding court
in holy water ever freezing.

[onestepp]

In the distance
unknown flag
captured wry glance
smooth white, black
whittled a stance.

[Ganesha]

River Queen
I, your fisher King,
am pierced through-
my hot tears
break on the rocks

[HeronW]

You break my surface
with your tears
yet I forgive.

You break my murmurs
with your questions
I cannot answer.

You wait for something
to flow past instead
of me. Why?

[Ganesha]

Your face a stony surface
unbroken by lies,
yet I forgive.

six months
you wait for my right
question

by chance
I ask,
you lie again

[ddgryphon]

I have cast my dreams
upon the water between
frozen banks;

waiting for them to
call me from
warmer shores.

[Teena]

others huddle inside
near warmth and conversation
but i stand here alone
to see winter

the moisture of her tears bejewels my face
chilly fingers plait my hair into love knots
my lungs fill with her frosty breath
and her laughter trickles away on the waves

in spite of my blindness
i see winter
and she is beautiful

[Writer???]

What lies beyond the bend?
She must know
So onward
against the flow
she is drawn deeper
into my history.

[Teena]

I search for him still
beneath the water's darkened chill
beyond horizon's dawn or setting sun
I watch for him because he was the one

[poetinahat]

She sat by the wind
and sent a flat stone whirling
skipping
then sinking
like last night's sin
into the dullwater lake
wrinkled by the wind
as an empty elephant skin

[Ganesha]

dedicated to poet


hat in hand
head vulnerable
poems fly
with swift wings
come to roost
in my mind's eye

[Angelinity]

they call this Spring--surface ice
melting though only over water

but what of less-liquid spreads--
her heart, her remembered,
when should they thaw?

she keeps them warmed in
her cage of memories

warm as she can. as she can,
but would live they again
like she did when they were real?

[Teena]

Meeting life
as one who is deaf
until I heard
the river's songs

[Steppe]

river as a blessing
touching
anointing who I am
I feel
my face
in the wind
my hair
my thoughts
and
for a time

river in me

this poem

[Ganesha]

water-
inside and out,
what's that fluid
all about?

[Appalachian Writer]

The far bank whispers
and she hears.
Water sweeps between them
border of
past and future.
Too cold to swim
the icy flow.
Jesus
walked on water.

[KTC]

I could be there,
inside that water, lake
and sky. I could rest
beneath the mirrored edge,
allow myself the silk
of being swallowed
to the depths,
and shine, like a blossom
leaving, when at the floor
I'll rest and weave
with the icy sway.

[Ganesha]

kitty cat
where is you at
all the song birds fear
that your jaws are near

[Teena]

river realm
icy succor
preserves ageless
warm loving touch
would sear

[Billytwice]

Off to the right,
The white hooded reaper[.......,,,,,........... (Take a close look at the rock formation on the bottom right)
Points with his finger of fate

Transfixed
She stands there awaiting
A cold and watery date

[Rivana]

It seems at last I stand defeated,
one more time despite it all.
Bad news all around
and without a sound
my heart shatters to pieces.
It's time to go again.

[ddgryphon]

river woman

it is for you
the waters move

it is for you

[Teena]

so cold
and empty
in mind and spirit
I came here
to feel warm

[Feiss]

To feel beautiful,
she sanded her face down,
put in a mirror,
and stood in front of the river.

[Ganesha]

New Orlean's blackwater

her soft eyes glazed
blue cast pearly
as the waters welled up
from a sewer portal
she was forced
into the gas laden liquid

[ddgryphon]

this river's my soul
from birth to death i travel
in its cold embrace

[Teena]

I chanced upon her
by the river
hunched on a mossy rock
mouth working a nonexistent morsel
as the toothless do.
Her rheumy left eye
wandered it’s perimeter
keeping watch;
the other held me
with a clear, knowing look.
“Take an old granny’s advice, dearie?
Do not choose a mate
in the blind haze of love
but with a canny eye
for men are as fruit.
In the spring of your life
they are ripe and abundant;
but some hide the bruises
of rottenness within
until, much invested,
you discover the spoil.
As you near your winter
they become more scarce
and less palatable.”

[kdnxdr]

monochromatic grey
mood to match, I sway

winter's cold white
there's always flight

in contrast,
I'm present, you're past.

now I stand
my heart in hand

the water's chill
a dare to will

this time,
I'll call it mine.

[Ganesha]

We stand on river's bank
muddy waters flow

Brown rain
washing over earth

Raincoats tapped
by fat drops

We wait for river
to pull back

Water's path
swells

We step back
from eroding banks

Yet river takes our weak
on a slippery ride

We wave goodbye
to those we have loved

[LaceWing]

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[NeuroFizz]

My daytime mirror
shows my life, broken
into fractals of slow
kaleidoscopic shifts,
but doesn’t give up
the hope of light
without memories
that live in the dreams
of dark and give it
a much needed rest

[Ganesha]

I lay me down
Under clouds of ice
Sunset pink melts to violet
Cold blue skin
Dawn's weak light
The nibbling fish
Golden vision
Soul set free
I fly
Nimble wings flash
Pink, violet, gold and blue
Become all things
Yet nothing new

[Rivana]

I hide from everything,
within the ice I feel
warm and safe from all
the wild winds in my life.
Snow falls softly down,
drifting to make a crown
of denial around my head.
I lie in a bed, devoid of now.
Here there are only secrets
known for times, before this time.
The darkness hides my thoughts
of things I aught to do.
Home is where my life stands still,
frozen in a moment that
almost lasts a lifetime.