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Best Sinking Feeling Poems

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Premium Member That Sinking Feeling
Murky sea this day as she wades chest deep
Battling strong waves with every step
No other swimmers, no lifeguards, no sun
Nary a gull on the beach...

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Categories: sinking feeling, angst, sea
Form: Narrative



Living With Long Covid After 19
How melancholy I yawn then sigh 

When recalling who I was 2 year's
ago just before Covid-19 struck
I was doing alright getting bye ok
But fast forward...

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Categories: sinking feeling, depression, sad, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A God of Second Chances
My heart is overflowing
With a love that just keeps growing
Lighting the path toward hope
Leaving me weightless, like a feather
More alive because we’re together

My mind is...

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Categories: sinking feeling, faith, god, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 3
They say the one you think of last before sleep,
Is the one you care for the most— the one you wish to hold, admire, love…

The...

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Categories: sinking feeling, adventure, allegory, anxiety, art,
Form: Free verse
Washed Away At Sea
Ripples once sweet     transformed into large breaking waves

Washing me away         Dragging me down
miles...

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Categories: sinking feeling, death, love, water,
Form: Free verse



I Don'T Know
“I just don’t know.”
You ever have that feeling,
That sinking feeling,
Where you try
And you try 
And you try
To wrap your 
head 
around 
something.

Yet all that 
comes...

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Categories: sinking feeling, beauty, crush, flower, romance,
Form: Free verse
Thank You Jenna May Have Been Simple But Meant a Lot To Me
Sometimes a day just like any other

That began or started carrying
forward all of yesterday's woes
into yet another 

Can sometimes just end up availing
that sinking feeling...

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Categories: sinking feeling, thank you,
Form: Free verse
You Are Wonderland
If darkness and brilliance could change their ways
You'd be my shadow on the brightest of days.
My shelter from sun, while they drink lemonade
With creamy, pale...

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Categories: sinking feeling, world, light, light, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Lost Boys
Little boy lost in echoes of his past.
Not knowing though never forgetting.
In things that linger in memories unspoken.
Lost and alone always foreboding thoughts.
Dreams of nightmares...

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Categories: sinking feeling, abuse, boy, child, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Things We Don'T Remember
I don’t remember my first introduction to the idea of same sex couples. I don’t remember the first time I was told it was a...

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Categories: sinking feeling, courage, culture, identity, pride,
Form: Free verse
Cancer Sucks
CANCER SUCKS...
3 days before my 30th birthday
You slipped away
Your contagious laugh
Your witty sarcasm
You were so outspoken
It was rough for me
We didn't live in the same...

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Categories: sinking feeling, angel, anger, cry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Woot Woot Personal Memories
Woot   Woot  Personal Memories

Monorhyme Form


Jeremy, a teen, is baby sitting
his siblings. They swallow him up playing.
 Berry sits on big brothers lap...

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Categories: sinking feeling, caregiving, children, fun,
Form: Monorhyme
A Foggy Mist and a Chilling Sound
A Foggy Mist and a Chilling Sound

Walking down the dimly lit street,
a foggy mist rising around my feet.
Soon the fogs so thick, I can't see,
walking...

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Categories: sinking feeling, dark, fear, halloween, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Little Boy
He wanders the ruins of his village
Searching for anyone at all, any sign of life
Hungry, and shaking, and no where to go
A sinking feeling inside,...

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Categories: sinking feeling, angst, child, philosophy, war,
Form: Light Verse
Thoughts of Those Better Men Have Gone Away
I thought of dying and dying young

Set the funeral up for dawn

Vultures flying around my brain

Trying to pry out what it may contain

A couple memories...

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Categories: sinking feeling, death, longing,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs