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Tag: tides

The banks

Published on 03/06/2025 by Maciej ModzelewskiLeave a comment

I live by the river yet never walk its banks.
Not that they’d miss me particularly—
after all, I would just be another pair of soles
trampling on their peace between the tides.


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Categories English poetry, poetry•Tags environmental awareness, nature, personification, poem, proximity, restraint, river, self-reflection, solitude, tides, wordplay
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