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Best Drainage Poems

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Premium Member Down a Drainage
The drizzle whips mildly like an omen
Along the ashen lane ; and I am troubled
While gazing through  a drainage
Filled with mud and waylaid boughs,
As...

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Categories: drainage, 3rd grade, pain, pets,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member As For Me I Believe
It is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young, 
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when...

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Categories: drainage, adventure, angel, blessing, christian,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Ode To a Gargoyle
I pass you several times a week
down at the Cheapside junction
your name defines the job you do
but you perform no function.
No drainage from the upper...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: drainage, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Song of a Raindrop
I am a rain drop flopped down from the clouds
I could have landed in a river or the sea
Then merging with the rising and receding...

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Categories: drainage, blessing, growing up, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dilly-Dally of Dandelions
The base word “dally,” from old French used to mean to chat idly.

dilly-dally of dandelions - seeds on fire, blown
    downward. ...

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Categories: drainage, angst,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Flint River
Ground seepage
A small start mere drainage
Grows to a mighty river rushing
Flowing some three-hundred-fourty-four miles a rushing
From Atlanta to the Gulf beauty accenting
Through ragged Spewell Bluff...

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Categories: drainage, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Around Tuit
I've been told that I have a chronic case of procrastination,
But I simply pace myself giving things careful consideration!
Ain't no use rushing into things that...

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Categories: drainage, funny
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Hospital Stay - Part Vi
6.

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Categories: drainage, angst, body, confusion, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fits the Need
"Fits the Need" 


All people want 
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home

to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free

live life 
how "we" 
were...

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Categories: drainage, future, humanity, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member River
RIVER

Running down from - high levels,
Flowing softly and rhythmically,
Carrying water to the plants and trees,
Streaming with fish - food for needy,

Permitting birds to build homes...

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Categories: drainage, nature,
Form: Free verse
Gravitational Whims
 ( "Write the truest sentence you know."  - F. Scott Fitzgerald ) 


Variant plurals suffering suffixation's whims;
fly-tomatoes and the valley boo-mouse,
when the sheep...

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Categories: drainage, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dumped Baby
One day, one of our daily papers carried a story about a teenage girl who 
dumped a baby;after carrying the baby for nine months in...

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Categories: drainage, education, grief,
Form: Narrative
Life Stages of a River
Rain falls on granite.
Glaciers unwind.
Snowflakes decrystallize.
A murmuring stream collects,
in the confluence of the melt.

A river is born.

Her banks expand.
Nutrients collect in the torrent.
Rocks tumble in...

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Categories: drainage, liferiver,
Form: Personification
The Hardware Man
I walked into the hardware store,
A place I’d never been before,
And knew that I would surely find
Exactly what I’d had in mind.

The narrow aisles were...

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Categories: drainage, people,
Form: Rhyme
Homeless Emptiness
Forced into grumbling stomach and head throb
It is dark cold emptiness all around
first laid off and then dissmissed from the job
It is a blight on...

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Categories: drainage, dark, dream, grave, home,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things