Afloat Poems - Poems about Afloat

blooms afloat surfing placid waters genle on my mind posted on April 22, 2025...

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I am simply trying to stay afloat In an otherwise sinking land An escape between past and future An island of pain Treaded up Barefoot in the sand Grains of memories stuck in the creases Standing is sore Walking is sore On my hands and knees I beg Relief is all I pray for The physical and mental...

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Find myself disconnected From the web Which underlies my life Is it humanity misdirected? Or am I? This underlies my strife ...

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Afloat Not drowning In murky depth Nor hover A single wit The darks below The glares above Keep still Afloat...

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Night drips into dawn the sky is afloat, a gentle sadness a comforting tenderness. Raindrops carry both the dark and the light; gleams of moon and sun and dark wings dancing between the two. The rain slowly dream falls as if each liquid pearl were the first and last, teardrop to rest upon the world. Now the rain and earth are speaking a rain language, surface words form a speech that enters...

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What Punctuation Marks ———————————————————————— (Dedicated to our Pens) Commencing with colons saying, “Look at what follows me”: Commas go with the need to breathe, Adding, or between, as the case may be. Semicolons help related thoughts, and lists of a length more supreme, Like running on; followed;...

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he moves with the gold, talks to the rocks his voice is a river, he’s looking at her; she flows through the fire, says she is water her eyelids are sore, from looking at him as they blink, again; again she and he are holding back tears as they fall, fall.. fall waterfall BITE SIZE POEM no26 Poetry Contest Sponsored by Line...

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We left our abode in old Cowfair haggled a price for an old shire mare Onto the landlord's canal boat lock stock and barrel for a life afloat farewell to our Buckingham...

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Happiness is a state of mind Resounding in spirit and voice I am happy and so are you Starting our journey we rejoice. The excitement and expectation Flowing like a river through Banks now over flowing In waves of Joy. Squeals of laughter rock the boat Contagious smiles now afloat In a glittering stream Two happy souls, caught between. 05.10.2020...

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You stare into the abyss, And the abyss stares back. Take a look into my mind, Through every little crack. It's dripping from my finger tips, It's throbbing in my veins. The wild inside my bones, Won't stay tied up in your reins. If I let my poison pour, Let it gush out of my...

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footnote remote dreamboat afloat footnote remote daydreams so flimsy dreamboat afloat bubbles of whimsy AP: Honorable Mention 2022 Submitted on August 9, 2019 for contest YOUR TURN FOR A TYBURN sponsored by CHARLES MESSINA - RANKED 3RD...

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The length of days that stretches ahead promises me again a skyey breadth, a watery and windy primeval union of the Earth and the Sky. In their dark depths and heady heights, there I swim, ...

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Freezing water. Many hours. Prayer, hymns, and laughter. Gray fins begin circling our group. Day Three There are thirteen of us now. Twenty-six numb legs stop moving. Hymn singing stops. Who will be next? I hold my breath. Goliath is taken. Pulled away from the circle. His girlfriend screams. Goliath makes no sound. Gives me a sad nod. I watch in morbid curiousness As he is pulled...

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Set a sail the sea of blue for what I know not why a cleansing maybe Of my soul to cross the oceans wide A Myriad of senses and visions ultrusive Meaningless yet overpowering to the eye And I the captain of this illusion of vital Natural repetition wave after wave A castaway of my own desire yet free Cupped...

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AUDIBLE HORRIBLE hearing paddling away think silence bouquet PALETTE TRAGIC taste creel caught meals easier bought EMOTIONAL REVERSAL warship bombards feelings cheaper dental drillings OLFACTORY REFRACTORY smell setting sail restroom odors bail VISUAL PITIFUL eyesight in lifeboat memorize your remote LOGIC FROLIC mind barge bound serenity island found ... CayCay October 19, 2018 (written for contest)...

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