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Best Swim Against The Tide Poems

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Premium Member A Summer Walk
The sun is slowly rising and a soft wind gently blows
We are heading for the beach to feel the sand between our toes
There is something...

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Categories: swim against the tide, life, sea, summer, me,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Passion Pits
My father had a passion to swim in the open sea
He used to shout, come on,” *Babu, will teach you”.
But never had the courage to...

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Categories: swim against the tide, passion, father, me, father,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member True To Myself
I've never been one to follow others like sheep
I'm not afraid to stand up for what I believe
Not loved by everyone
but I strive for goodness...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, introspection, me,
Form: Free verse
Waves of Dreams
Life’s ocean of colors carries me 
home. Red and blue waves flow into you 
and days gone by. I am afloat, often 
rolling over and...

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Categories: swim against the tide, dream, emotions, life, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
A Piece of Respect
In times of affliction
I raise a voice.
A pain in my heart
Difficult to disguise.

A tale of wrong
You cannot deny.
A wound so deep,
It makes me cry.

Delicate and...

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Categories: swim against the tide, faith, life, people, religion,
Form: Rhyme



Yesterday
yesterday i was young,
seawater tried to drown me lung,
i was dog paddlin alone,
in the sea, a rip was going,
taking me far from home,
i tried to...

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Categories: swim against the tide, adventure, me,
Form: Ballad
Eggshells
You say you will, but then you won’t
Say you do and then you don’t
I’m running around in circles all the time
You tell me that you’re...

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Categories: swim against the tide, angst, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Swimming Against the Tide
Sometimes you have to swim against the tide,

at times you have fly in the face of opinion,

sometimes you have to decide which side,

that you are...

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Categories: swim against the tide, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Futile Leaders
In crisis we swim
Hunger for education has made us slim
The beauty of dye was washed by rain
From ignorance to ignored we leave by cain
Solidarity of...

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Categories: swim against the tide, absence, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Like a Bridge
If there was ever any doubt in your mind
You know that I would be the last person to leave you behind
Need or require anything, ...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, friendship, mum,
Form: Acrostic
Regret
I knelt down at a little creek
To cure my aching thirst.
But before the water touched my cheek
It asked me something first:

“Whose reflection is this here?
Does...

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Categories: swim against the tide, depression, loss, me, river,
Form: Rhyme
Ocean Dreams
The bright radiant sun hits me thru
the oddly shaped clouds
Hot crystal like sand beneath my feet.
The soft touch of the ocean's breeze, 
glad we could...

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Categories: swim against the tide, adventureocean,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member To Whom It Might Concern
To Whom It May Concern

If I should suddenly take my last breath
Leave my mortal coil behind
And succumb to the dark of death
Think this of me

I...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, angst, forgiveness, identity,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Poet's Lament Recited
PERPETUAL POEMS
A poem is never merely still born,
It has its creator's eyes,ears and nose
Yet,unique it lives  a life of its own
Independent,well able to stand...

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Categories: swim against the tide, writing, perspective,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Is the Moon Male, Female Or Both
The purpose of gender is balance and procreation.
One moon is enough for us.
Our precious moon 
Has a differing purpose.

The moon reflects the sunlight
During late, dark...

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Categories: swim against the tide, moon,
Form: Rhyme

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