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Premium Member Ankle Deep

I took off my shoes 
and stood ankle deep
in the shallow reach and run
of the waves. I felt a sudden
cold, the slow sink of my...

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Categories: ankle deep, joy, sea, self, senses,
Form: Free verse



A Midsummer Night's Beach
When I was a girl, still on the island
I’d sit in the sand
and brood
and revel
in what I thought was utter enlightenment
a teenage rebel
with dime-store refinement
We...

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Categories: ankle deep, beauty, color, creation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Sonata - POTD
Winter Sonata 11-29-23
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Winter Sonata

In grave allegro solo grey gathers,
Strings of winter fantasias
Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,
Downbeats for the first movement
As shivering sleet wipes away...

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Categories: ankle deep, song, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn's Breath
I love to spend my October afternoons walking ankle-deep in dried, curled leaves.
They cover the back country roads, the forest floor, and my own front...

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Categories: ankle deep, autumn, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Written In Blue Mercury
snow falls
as silently as sleep
pressed snowflakes
icicle flowers
between the wind and windowpane
melt their way to sill

polished chrome darkness shivers
ankle deep in frost
night’s breath spills
along the ...

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Categories: ankle deep, hope, joy, life, love,
Form: Free verse



A Day By the Ocean
Smell the sweet and salty air
Roam the wide beach without a care
Walk ankle deep in the ocean's cooling foam
Dig in the sand till the cows...

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Categories: ankle deep, beach, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Ether Real
Could I hold your hand in my rough callused own
Walk you through soft Summer rain
Hold you so closely my nostrils explode
In joy so exquisite it’s...

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Categories: ankle deep, friendship, visionary,
Form: Imagism
Shadow
I've been waiting for someone to shed some light,
To take my hand and lead me back
Into the arms of the earth.
I've been ankle-deep in frost-kissed...

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Categories: ankle deep, love, words, me, me,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Another's Love
She was the one he wanted
the one "who got away"

no pleading or love making
could make her want to stay

her hair so blonde and golden
with eyes...

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Categories: ankle deep, beauty, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Croc
In one foot of water
Little girl splashes ankle deep
Coffin bay in winter...

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© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ankle deep, angst, daughter, death,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Ghosts of South Dakota Part 3
There were seven Indian Government schools.  All built alike.  The 
one I'm writing about is Spring Creek.  He Dog, Soldier Creek and...

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Categories: ankle deep, inspirational, life, love, school,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Kids Only Secret Recipe - Nursery Rhyme 2
Maddie, Maddie, mud pie maker,
born to be a beaming baker.
When making mud pies she feels free,
here is her secret recipe:

In the searing summer sun, go...

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© Eric Cohen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ankle deep, joy, kid, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tumultuous Raindrops
An old friend for many years,
my cane's ready for our walk.
And yet, I linger a while,
listening to two crows squawk.

Hiking on the trail, I hear
the...

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Categories: ankle deep, beauty, feelings, imagery, nature,
Form: Quatrain
Dickensian Time
In Dickensian time 
Upon sunset hour
Overshadowing Thames
Is London Tower
Blackened cobble streets
Shimmer in the rain
Big Ben at Westminster
Chimes an eight bells refrain

At Euston Station
A passenger alights
On...

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Categories: ankle deep, places,
Form: Free verse
Regret River
When I think of regret, its like a very cold river
At first I was ankle deep, now neck-in my body shiver
How fast I'm being pulled...

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Categories: ankle deep, forgivenessheart, heart, me, river,
Form: Rhyme

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