Best Test The Water Poems

Never test the water with BOTH your feet
To determine the temperature or if it's deep
One pinky at a time
For testing the brine
It's over my head,...

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What Parents Should Say
Written by: D. Collins 5/6/16

And We Quote…………

“Go out and test the water, but swim the right way.”
“We relinquished rights on your eighteenth...

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Moldy feet of clay
Wearing smelly moldy feet of clay,
as purity walks slow away,
the attraction of the  pity curse,
a lady solves the verse,
but is she...

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 I DON'T LOVE YOU (I JUST LIKE YOU)   

You keep staring
From the corner of your eyes.
You look at me,
While I’m looking away.
When...

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ZEBRA    COMPLAINT

My mom gave me these stripes at birth: 
In the veldt they‘ve proved their worth
For hidin’ from predators
Or National Geographic editors,
But...

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THE CHECKOUT LINE

I made the phone call
he's holdin got the work. 
We gotta have the "ins" this time, 
said he wouldn't front me dirt. 
What...

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amen- i pray(ed to you for too) long
faces balanced - broken law
             ...

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Life

I ask to dive deep 
for what purpose would it serve 
to go the breadth in the swallow end 

I ask to be submerged 
not...

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You were such a good dream.
But then you became a reality.
The reality became comfortless.
So I did the best I could.
Because I never wanted to break...

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It's now time for us
to test the water;
see what else is out
there that has something
better to offer.

It is now time
for us to be
separated
but still best...

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Never test the water with BOTH feet
To feel the temperature or if it's too deep
One foot at a time
For testing the brine
If it's over your...

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Everyone told him to come out
His LTBGQ friends anyway
All six of them 
For that is how many lived in his small town
in the Midwest 
in...

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A Rainy Walk

  Me and Bertie's off for a walk,, he isn't very keen,
  He's worried he may fall in a puddle where...

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Oh, it can be hard
to rise from my bed
Numbness in my heart
Pain in my head

The door is locked
I'm too scared to look
Cause someone knocked
My knees,...

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Watching people walk on the street.
Tells so much about who they are.
The hurried with their great strides.
Those shifty eyed and guilty shuffles.
The high noses with...

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