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In the cold tub, at ten-thirty in the morning, I float like a wreck
...In the cold tub, at ten-thirty in the morning, I float like a wreck after a week of drinking and gambling, My body trembles, my mind is a dense fog, when suddenly the phone rings like a bell in an e......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
bathwater,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills
...Brainstorming until figuratively blue in the gills..., and finally gung-ho with a poem title important to yours truly not disappointing his Facebook fan base, which electronic affirmation, and c......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
bathwater,
absence, africa, animal, baby,
Form:
Free verse
I Almost Tossed It Out
...I had a dream that felt so real, Even awake, it felt surreal. Sitting in my comfy chair, Goosebumps rose as I sat there. Reality hit—I caught my breath— I almost tossed it out, a part of me to......
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Lise Clendening
Categories:
bathwater,
death, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Expectations
...Expectations and like the many changing faces. We are constantly trying to fit the best one to put on. I constantly try to adjust one side and keep one's truth hidden deep inside. Embedded in s......
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Dena Brown
Categories:
bathwater,
butterfly, grief, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Do Poets Always Walk in the Rain
...Do poets always walk in the rain? This poet once did When she was but a kid. The bathwater of summer drops Cascading from suburban chimney tops, Puddles on pavement Begging for splashing, A ro......
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Ellen Gwaltney Bales
Categories:
bathwater,
childhood, growing up, innocence,
Form:
Rhyme
One Missing
...I want to write a song today from six feet under here. Won’t paint to kill the dead saints but I want to make it clear that I’ve been praying in the dark while lying in this grave, and wishing the......
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Jeff Bresee
Categories:
bathwater,
inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Casting Off The Bow Line
...Casting Off The Bow Line Goodbye my unwed darling I’m married to this dream Freedom calling out to me betrothal thus redeemed Bachelorhood a Siren’s calling Feted tween the sails ......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
bathwater,
poetry, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Bath Water Waves
...Oh bathwater waves bubbles from a school of fish; Calm after the storm.......
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Melani Udaeta
Categories:
bathwater,
emotions, nature, sea, storm,
Form:
Haiku
In The Same Vein
...Prisoner Of Language Will time live eternal or just its retelling A prisoner of language whose paradox mined Dimension in contrast ill-fated contrition To look but not touch —and hope the......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
bathwater,
time,
Form:
Rhyme
Lineage Holds
...A man loses his father and adulthood begins Bathwater draining the baby within A son who is sireless new destiny’s child Whose choice is to run or to stand and beguile Alone with his mem......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
bathwater,
father, son,
Form:
Rhyme
The Inevitability of Happiness
...Today, there are no rubber ducks or mother's marigold skirts to hide behind as we once did. In their place, lurking dark and hoary, a bathtub mist updrafts thick with loose spores, and mil......
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Jaymee Thomas
Categories:
bathwater,
care, extended metaphor, fun,
Form:
Free verse
Left Over Tomato
...The halved tomato was freezer bagged and kept in the fridge too long Breakfast is nothing without a tomato but this melting fruit is in a dream state. Not corrupted yet, not rotten as we might e......
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Eric Ashford
Categories:
bathwater,
poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Alone In the Wilderness
...If we can’t agree on fifty-one percent of what affects us both we’re doomed Like the baby and the bathwater our future lost in critical disdain All politics of division a self-imposed, self-......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
bathwater,
dark, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
A Whole New Word
...Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun, and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words - t......
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John Watt
Categories:
bathwater,
word play, words,
Form:
Verse
Waterway
..."You drown not by falling in a river, but by staying submerged in it.” A gentle mist billows above the man-made pond that spawns a rippling sorrel-dusky brook that ebbs and widens as it beco......
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Jennifer Cahill
Categories:
bathwater,
allusion, angst, anxiety, beautiful,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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