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Best Dredged Poems

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Poem Ingredients
Many ingredients bake writing inspiration.
This recipe combines a stirring sensation:  

Heaps of desires never realized
as marinated in teary sore eyes;
Quantities of wide open spaces
caramelized...

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Categories: dredged, desire, food, how i
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member That Which Held Me In a Magical Spell
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That Which Held Me In A Magical Spell

That which held me in a magical spell
Dark, its winding infinity and heart
Its red beach, covered in sad...

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Categories: dredged, appreciation, creation, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Painting You
Painting You

Before painting, I first sketch you
In my mind’s eye…To compose
The lines, shapes, shadows and lights, 
That work altogether to form a semblant sight
Of you...

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Categories: dredged, color, devotion, feelings, health,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Dawson
No pagan crown of fossil lairs
Of him I write no verse nor song
T’is not a soup to stir nor share
When lending strength, to something wrong.

Seconds...

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Categories: dredged, confusion, dedication, places,
Form: Ballad
Jewels of Love
When fearful voices in the night began to cry,
Roaring from countless dreams behind the scream,
Dribbled eyes gazing into darkness at the vast sky,
This darksome turn,...

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Categories: dredged, allusion, beauty, dream, faith,
Form: Imagism



Fire On the Ohio River
My boat rocks gently under a reddening sun,
is it wrong to wish for a Viking burial,
to ponder a last journey West
into the dying light?

Strangers have...

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Categories: dredged, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Skeleton of Paris
TO PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH
   YOU MUST RESERVE YOUR DATE AND TIME
TO ENTER THE EMPIRE OF DEATH

“Arrête, c'est ici l'empire de la mort!"

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Categories: dredged, death, paris,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Black Pearl Poem - Booty Returned
Like many merchant vessels
That sailed from our Mersey shore
This sturdy piece of timber
Can hold its own in tales of yore

A dried up piece of flotsam
Washed...

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Categories: dredged, adventure, boat, celebration, community,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Paratrooper's Gracious Descent—mother Earth Below
It was the day I wanted the most
Yet dreaded as the worst,
Seeing the jumpmaster’s eyes
Way up there in the sky,
Waiting for the scream
“This is a...

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Categories: dredged, adventure, dedication, faith, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Loners Need Space
I frequently have a day,
When I merely need space;
To clear my mind of things,
And get thoughts in place.

I've little to talk about,
No worthwhile thing to...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dredged, space,
Form: Lyric
Voyage of the Damned
They were as Jonah was,
cast down into the belly of the whale
They were soon to experience
every unimaginable horror on this ship of hell

On the voyage...

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Categories: dredged, death, evil, pain, slavery,
Form: Epic
War and Peace
All wars scourged bodies and souls--
Torn spirits and dredged feet of the fowls

Ravished by rabid gargoyles of prey
Scuppered dreams of the reapers of hay

Wars circled...

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Categories: dredged, conflict, death, dream, peace,
Form: Verse
Let Love Flow
Your waters cleanse
   my red-stained night,
       my dredged thoughts,
        ...

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Categories: dredged, flower, night, passion, spring,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Time
It’s that time of year again,
When families reunite;
We sit together and reminisce,
About everything in sight;

We laugh and joke and carry on, 
Like no time has...

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Categories: dredged, family, friendship, happiness, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Turn Back, Back the Pages
            Turn back, back, the pages of time, the tattered pages,
Lay open the story...

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Categories: dredged, anti bullying, bullying, hurt,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things