Best On The Rocks Poems

Whiskey on the rocks, advised by my doc
combats dementia, so bring on the blocks
no need for a glass;  I'll have me the bottle
with a big bowl of ice this baby I'll throttle

The whiskey's gone, now a brandy'd be fine
my inside's on fire, there's a...

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By Carolyn Devonshire
 
casting my line from a rock jetty
sad, high-pitch cry I hear
glance around, see no one
cast again but the cry echoes
as if reverberating in the rocks
fishing pole I lay down
now searching every crevice
suddenly a wee feline springs forth
mewing alone atop the stone
from where...

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what candle pressed against the wind
a winding trail unfolds 
down the cliffside 
into the storm
where a treasure lies to behold
a thousand jagged teeth
Peirce the roiling spew
a promise of paradise 
the desperate never knew
and down the cliff should you falter
lose your balance and fall
in hopes of...

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"On the rocks?", the bartender called,
As I asked for a double Scotch,
To revive my spirits keel-hauled.
By my sleepy shift on night-watch.

On the rocks the liquid gold poured
Making the cold hard ice cubes clink.
Drowner of sorrows, now on board,
Dismay was dragged back from the brink.

On the...

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Written large & form erroding

Shore & folly show.'

Blending light & water almost solid.



© Joe Maverick 5-12-2010


for SKATS sandcastle haiku contest...

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On these very granite rocks
we once sat and joyfully talked

and somewhere amid the churning
river and your hypnotizing words

I fell in love. Fallen like 
the tumbling waters beside me,

in my ears, mimicking 
the rhythm of my heart. Here

sits the one man in the world 
who adores...

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You baby are the first and last warm thought 
on my mind, each and every single day 
I want to lie beside you, nuzzle up 
real close falling asleep listening 
to your gentle heartbeats drum, slowly strum 
Rolling doors open, to a princess gem 
rare...

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Cold, splashing river,
meanders aimlessly on -
Freedom on the rocks...

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ON THE ROCKS

Moments spent as one
Will forever be nostalgia
In my heart that feels so crumbled
Longing to be in utopia 

Was it a kismet that we met
Fate gave you to me
Odds made you so close to me
But Trammel took you away from me

Then You're finally gone
There's...

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Love on the rocks



I’ve fallen in love with a mermaid
She captured my heart with her song
She was singing her scales
And upsetting the whales
As she knitted a seashell sarong

Well I smiled at her, very politely
And she put down her knitting, and looked
She bade me come here
There...

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Collecting sandstones

To refill love thrown

Rocks pile---nights alone.




Just Ten Words Contest
Submited by Ashley Conte
dated 8 April 2014...

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They say that nothing is free amid this world
Most definitely, depending upon who as whom....
High crime scratch their eyes spinning broken vinyl 
Time your daddy was lying to you hitch because there's 
No truth betwixt his parched crumbling destitute lips tilting
Tides this crown of mine...

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Allegheny rail train has been rolling along since dawn.
I can hear the patchy sounds of the horn ushered by the wind.
Sounds at first are muffled but become distinct as the train gets closer.

Gulls hovering over the waves that clash and thunder.
I enjoy walking the tracks...

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Some ships  founder on the rocks.
Such sad things come to pass.
Relationships! They founder too,
if not upon a rocky shore,
then in a whiskey glass....

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Love On The Rocks 

We can dream about the warm togetherness
 Through the snow and wild chill outside
 We have come this far not to turn back now
 There is no use looking back at the plough
 Shelter lies dormant amidst it's beckoning blow
 There...

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