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Best Sponged Poems

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Premium Member Bringing Life To All
Thunder and lightning ruled the black night
As the frightened young mother struggled 
Beads of sweat ran down her pretty face
The old midwife calmly sponged off...

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Categories: sponged, caregiving, dedication, health, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Starlit Fantasy - Spell-Bound
I look up at the ebony, starlit sky…I’m gravity-bound…I’m awestruck 
& I don’t know why I feel stuck in place…I’m searching all over the place…the...

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Categories: sponged, addiction, adventure, beauty, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nearer My God to Thee, Be A Cross That Raises Me
The hour matters none ... for the energies have exhausted.
In the year of our Lord ... nineteen hundred and twelve, April fifteenth.
Writes a future living...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sponged, anxiety, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Sijo
Flash Flood
a storm is brewing
dark hordes bristling to descend
dissenting thunder

coalescent scouts
in tentative teams essay
sun-parched earth awaits

sizzle of drizzle
pheremonal petrichor
harbingers of hope

cool breeze in the air
their work...

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Categories: sponged, environment, nature, rain, storm,
Form: Haiku
Furtive Screams of a Christian
Though I've created my own Egypt
Doing things as if God does not exist.
Could not wait for the unknown.
I'm burning with passion, inflamed with lust. 

Just!...

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Categories: sponged, anxiety, autumn, christian, prayer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Belle's Chime
How do I deserve the treasure
Of your nightly presence,
Holding me, welcoming me
To this bed that we share,
Where cares of the day
Are sponged away by downy...

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Categories: sponged, love,
Form: Free verse
Film With a Friend
On a sweat sizzling and scorching summer day,
I sponged my eyes with chilled water and said good morning.
I showered my mind with new notions and...

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Categories: sponged, adventure, appreciation, character, creation,
Form: Sonnet
Stephanie Dodds
My never ending
     search for whatever
     this psychologically gout
riddled rhyme stir to
     write...

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Categories: sponged, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy
Banal Secrets
Banal secrets…


Just another night.
He leaves 
a bagful of snacks, 
cans of emptiness
scattered on the lumpy couch, 
in front of the tube 
now broadcasting 
a series...

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Categories: sponged, allegory, angst, artsister, lost,
Form: Free verse
Snow Scape
Wet on wet washed sky
Back lit foliage sponged dry
Red dirt shows through white 


By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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Categories: sponged, art
Form: Haiku
Caravanserai Heading Toward the Levant
a tsunami catapulted cruising skiff
skyward landing with quiet thud
across undulating infinite granular waves
formerly solid state rocks and minerals

optimism vibrant upon initial unforeseen
crash asper for test...

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Categories: sponged, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Blank verse
I Write
With locked jaw frustration resembling pain,
with a mind bubbling over releasing so as not to go insane
I write....
From the corner of my mind that rocks...

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Categories: sponged, life, mystery, passion, sad,
Form: I do not know?
Greyhound - La To Ny
Taxied to the terminal. The fare paid,
vagrants begged for alms, some too drunk to care.
Shrunken faces, weather beaten, they played
a sad tune of which I...

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© Robin Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sponged, adventure, america, city, journey,
Form: Sonnet
His Disappearance
Malicious brigand of thought
Shadow dancing about
Times dark mastermind
Of sand felled memory
No deliberation granted
On the adequacy of crime
Here the confidence breaks
The vibrant glow dulls
This slow compiling...

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Categories: sponged, caregiving, health, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
The Soothsayer Part 1
At the beginning of my shift at Like Home Inclusive Care,  I always check in on Miss Rosa first. I usually check her vitals...

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Categories: sponged, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs