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Bathwater Poems - Poems about Bathwater

Premium Member 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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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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Categories: bathwater, absence, africa, animal, baby,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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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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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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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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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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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Categories: bathwater, poetry, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bath Water Waves
...Oh bathwater waves bubbles from a school of fish; Calm after the storm.......

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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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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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Categories: bathwater, father, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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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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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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Categories: bathwater, dark, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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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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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Categories: bathwater, allusion, angst, anxiety, beautiful,
Form: Prose Poetry

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