Best Sink Or Swim Poems

those who cannot swim
will not drown in the water
if they stay on land

those who cannot swim
should not drown in the water
if they use a boat

those who cannot swim
should not drown in the water
if they learn to swim

swimmers never drown
unless they enter water
and even boats sink

water gives and takes
at what level should you float
your choice sink...

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Sink or Swim?

I never learned how to swim at all 
I was young and fell in as I recall
I was frightened of water after that
And reacted to water just like a cat

I never had chance to swim in the sea
I wish I could but that isn’t me
I go to a pool try to stay afloat
But...

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A fool's paradise , to live for what might have been
A maze from which escape comes hard
A time spent which is futile,wasteful and sterile
Wallowing in regret closes every door.

Where you are and how you got there
Should be your starting point
Study the past,make your corrections
Adjust and step out on your chosen path

Dreams are there for fulfilment
But...

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sink
lower, drowned
submerging, burying, plummeting
absorption, slump, backstroke, fishes
snorkeling, diving, spearfishing
floaty, enjoyable
swim



Date created: 03/26/2022...

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I fight to keep my head above the waves.
Perhaps I should have stayed inside the boat.
But I believed them when they said, “He saves…”
And now I see I was not built to float.

If water is a metaphor for life,
I’m not quite sure the lesson I should learn.
I so don’t want to drown in all this...

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Caught in a sea of memory
Adrift with false security
You claw for the shore
But you need to see more
You're drowning in your own history

There's a lifeboat chartered on give and take
You'll pay the price for the choice you make
So play with the band
Or paddle toward land
Perhaps your ocean is merely a lake...

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I ramble and shove words together 
And sometimes I pick apart my unpleasant thoughts
Look,

I can try to remember
I can try to forget
It’s sink or swim and I can’t tell which is which...

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Into the little pond I jump.....Landing with a noisy… plonk
Legs go up…… legs go down
I can go like this all day…. Treading water all the way.

Now you see me ....now you don’t
Who am I….can you say ?
Here’s a clue … to help you  find your way.

I change color frequently…to blend in with the scenery
Can...

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A tropical vacation that I never shall forget
The clearest cleanest ocean that I’ve ever seen as yet
I dabbled in a rock pool with a bamboo handled net
I told my wife, “It’s just for fun, to see what I might get.”

She said, “I know you all too well, you’re looking for a pet,
But look around, there’s...

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Drowning in sorrow
because you are leaving me.
I jumped in too soon.

As I flail about,
will you toss me a life ring,
or a concrete block?

Both are solutions
to my current state of mind
over losing you.

The first prolongs it,
the latter, ultimately,
brings on my demise.

I need to purge this
constant feeling of longing
for something that’s gone.

This stagnation mode
compromises my future
and pulls...

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