"striders" poems - Hello Poetry

As the water table rises you seep upward a chilly ghost levitating fluid limbs spread as the sun heats your body water pools in finger lakes. Etching ripples in their wake water-striders wander the four directions of your surface grass-kelp undulates, diving beetles plumb in the hollows of your headwaters. Lotus roots take hold and deepen you rise slowly on north-facing feet white petals burst through your visage and a broad smile cracks your mud-encrusted face. Ghost of earth future, risen.

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Aug 27, 2014

Aug 27, 2014 at 11:18 AM UTC

ann-marcaida

Ode to a Pond (A Buddhist Poem)

As the water table rises you seep upward a chilly ghost levitating fluid limbs spread as the sun heats your body water pools in finger lakes. Etching ripples in their wake water-striders wander the four directions of your surface grass-kelp undulates, diving beetles plumb in the hollows of your headwaters. Lotus roots take hold and deepen you rise slowly on north-facing feet white petals burst through your visage and a broad smile cracks your mud-encrusted face. Ghost of earth future, risen.

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cold bitter sidewalk wind duck into chinese place find a place along the window hot tea, wonton, fortune please watching quick and furtive striders sun rays make it through glass haze warmth returns to my numb fingers which pry apart the brittle cookie the paper inside says “decide”

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Oct 19, 2015

Oct 19, 2015 at 3:51 PM UTC

dan-mcgowan

Decide

cold bitter sidewalk wind duck into chinese place find a place along the window hot tea, wonton, fortune please watching quick and furtive striders sun rays make it through glass haze warmth returns to my numb fingers which pry apart the brittle cookie the paper inside says “decide”

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Granite and marble talismans , sugar white sandbars and felled Oak bridges .. Smallmouth bass explode with hunger at the surface , soft shelled turtles in meditative bliss , fill driftwood and sun drenched rock islands , dancing waters and bank head flora lend a thousand different colors to the afternoon palette of a Kelleytown Summer ... Water striders communicate with dance to the ballad of a bold Bluejay .. Young anglers test their skills with creek minnows in search of Yellow Perch and Black Crappie as the last hour of daylight swiftly begins to pass ..

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Feb 27, 2016

Feb 27, 2016 at 7:36 PM UTC

randolph-l-wilson

Airline Road Bridge

Granite and marble talismans , sugar white sandbars and felled Oak bridges .. Smallmouth bass explode with hunger at the surface , soft shelled turtles in meditative bliss , fill driftwood and sun drenched rock islands , dancing waters and bank head flora lend a thousand different colors to the afternoon palette of a Kelleytown Summer ... Water striders communicate with dance to the ballad of a bold Bluejay .. Young anglers test their skills with creek minnows in search of Yellow Perch and Black Crappie as the last hour of daylight swiftly begins to pass ..

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*Cry o'er this sadness Refreshing red clay in the guise of granite With pools of wrigglers , black tadpoles , water striders , afternoon of titmouse , bluebird and robin Of lacewings and locust culled neath the bounty of spring , lantern fly , mantid , field gnats riding turbulent April waves O'er tin shack , pole barn and smokehouse Barbecue pit , wood shed and well house Hour of depression abated , of fragrant treasure ablated* ...

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Feb 7, 2017

Feb 7, 2017 at 6:03 PM UTC

randolph-l-wilson

A Quick Shower ..( Sister April )

*Cry o'er this sadness Refreshing red clay in the guise of granite With pools of wrigglers , black tadpoles , water striders , afternoon of titmouse , bluebird and robin Of lacewings and locust culled neath the bounty of spring , lantern fly , mantid , field gnats riding turbulent April waves O'er tin shack , pole barn and smokehouse Barbecue pit , wood shed and well house Hour of depression abated , of fragrant treasure ablated* ...

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Throwing daisies into Crystal Lake Feeding Pekin Ducks , smoking blueberry blaze Relishing quiet time with my friends , the water striders and Trumpeter Swans , elder passersby waving from the roadway .... Chewing tangy grass , collecting runaway thoughts on a Renoir masterpiece kind of day...

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Apr 1, 2016

Apr 1, 2016 at 10:03 PM UTC

randolph-l-wilson

The Postcard Day

Throwing daisies into Crystal Lake Feeding Pekin Ducks , smoking blueberry blaze Relishing quiet time with my friends , the water striders and Trumpeter Swans , elder passersby waving from the roadway .... Chewing tangy grass , collecting runaway thoughts on a Renoir masterpiece kind of day...

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The idea of "forever" Is kind of like A feather floating on water. For a long while it'll rest on top of it Like the spring time water striders. All the while, Slowly, Over time, The water will swallow each barb Until it's pressed flat to the surface, Still, it will take longer to disappear. Akin to the blurred line When Promised forever-mores begin to fade. There is still hope To pull the feather away, Dry it to its former glory, However, The gentle current of the water pulls it, Just out of reach. All that's left now is to watch As liquid seeps into the feather's Hollow shaft and be devoured Never to resurface.

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Apr 10, 2015

Apr 10, 2015 at 12:57 AM UTC

Denxai

Forever and feathers

The idea of "forever" Is kind of like A feather floating on water. For a long while it'll rest on top of it Like the spring time water striders. All the while, Slowly, Over time, The water will swallow each barb Until it's pressed flat to the surface, Still, it will take longer to disappear. Akin to the blurred line When Promised forever-mores begin to fade. There is still hope To pull the feather away, Dry it to its former glory, However, The gentle current of the water pulls it, Just out of reach. All that's left now is to watch As liquid seeps into the feather's Hollow shaft and be devoured Never to resurface.

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