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Sink Or Swim Poems - Poems about Sink Or Swim

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Premium Member Sink or Swim
...A tropical vacation that I never shall forget The clearest cleanest ocean that I’ve ever seen as yet I dabbled in a rock pool with a bamboo handled net I told my wife, “It’s just for fun, to see w......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, vacation,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member The Pit and the Pendulum
...I think I found the prescription for the sickness behind my obvious problems Or I found the key that fits in the lock of the door of ignoring them I’m not sure which one it is But you’ve won, I’......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, emotions, fear, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Unwritten Absence
...Sunday morning sunshine in your absence adrifts my yearning in winter breeze cool I sink or swim, doesn't make a difference the white swan ponders in a shallow pool Incomplete journey, some for......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, bereavement, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Shadowland
... Shadowland Chained to the addiction of tempting Fate What if I told you that my life was once like yours? Torn between love and hate A shadow silhouette lurking between life and deat......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, angel, change, death, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Over White Waters
...Over white waters, a vessel She goes dipping and bobbing, 'Cross the deep blue trestle Her captain nearly sobbing Hands at the helm Still, she does not steer, Just navigates this realm Nowhe......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, boat, courage, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Behind Every Strong Person
...In the depths of my soul, There lies a tale that time cannot erase, A story woven with threads of strength and strife, Where two choices flickered, dictating life. Behind every strong person, a n......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Write It Don'T Fight It Contest
...I know that I sail close to the wind It's something I do to counter lack of confidence Let's get in a frenzy of mixing metaphors now: I throw myself past the point of no return, seeing if I'll sink......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Top of the Charts 2023
...*Image of Ukraine Chronicles by PJC. Top of the Charts 2023 1. putin was put in the hit list~~grateful dead now dead and company play [14th-17th, Cancun,......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, america, angst, anxiety, international,
Form: Monoku
Extra Innings
...There is a story ‘bout Casey, that is but incomplete It tells of simple ball and bat and Mighty’s ignoble feat There we learned of failure and the storied Mudville name Here we’ll learn what happe......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Confession One Updated
...When I was a child I spoke as a Child! As a StoryTeller things changed, and I still speak as a child A powerful child for love is a choke of words never will be said in the atmosphere wall of ......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, appreciation, art, business, care,
Form: Narrative
Ho Xuan Huong Translations From the Vietnamese
...Ho Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. Her verse — replete with nods, winks, double entendres and sexual innuendo — was shocking to many readers of her day and will doubtless rema......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, animal, body, heart, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sword of Honour
...His father was an Aristocrat His mother a high class whore And he attended Public School As had his ancestors before, Achieved a First at Oxbridge, Sword of Honour at Sandhurst, Served in Bosni......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, angst, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Swimming
...Swimming is freedom. You lose yourself in the moment, It’s like a dream you can’t remember; To understand, you had to have done it. You don’t have to be Phelps to swim. Swim to achieve a vic......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, sports, voice, water,
Form: Rhyme
Dont Hold Back
...In the darkness not a soul in sight Outnumbered but still join the fight All around you there’s no where to turn It’s time to sink or swim I know you’ll learn Stand your ground there’s no where ......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alone In Glass Bottom
...Davy Jones: Do you fear… death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished? —Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest 2006 ALONE......Read the rest...
Categories: sink or swim, corruption, sea,
Form: Monchielle Stanza

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