Best Test The Waters Poems
Berlin...I had been studying to make Sergeant,
And was scheduled for the afternoon promotion board.
To get some practice and test the waters,
I volunteered for the morning's Soldier Of The Month Board.
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Categories:
test the waters, history, memory, soldier, travel,
Form:
Quatrain
Sound of Thunder...Sound of Thunder
My pain is real
I cannot control my emotions
I walk in a haze
when I feel that dark days
are ahead of me
I would like to run away
but my fear is like a storm
fed ......
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Categories:
test the waters, anxiety,
Form:
Prose Poetry
On Turning Forty____...Someone said, “Now you’ve turned forty-,
What have you learned?
Your experience must be varied,
Your fingers quite burned.
You must’ve gone through troubled times,
Of disappointments you’d’ve ......
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Categories:
test the waters, inspirational, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form:
Everlasting Guilt...Why…hurt…Why…hurt
Isabel, her gaze pins the accusation upon the one in question
And a solitary moment, frozen and regretted, hangs in the air
The intensity could set a lawn ablaze; still the ice r......
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Categories:
test the waters, break up, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Testing the Waters...Their is no time left trap in a world of no existing.
As I try overcome my fears I continue
to be lower into the darkness.
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Categories:
test the waters, fantasyworld, evil,
Form:
Sestina
When I Was 18...When I was 18
When was 18, I wasn't worried about where my 21-year-old girlfriend was going to lay her head.
When I was 18, my hoop dreams began to wane with the realization I was only junior v......
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Categories:
test the waters, black african american, father,
Form:
Free verse
Chemistry Adult...Our chemistry is magnetic,
I love to taste your lips.
The way your body feels so warm.
The way you pull me by my hips.
You pull my hair the right way.
Gentle, but yet rough.
It's like I'm an ad......
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Categories:
test the waters, poetry,
Form:
Bio
The Manipulators...Underneath their charm lies a deceitful mask,
Meet the manipulators.
They are deceitful.
They mislead to control other’s circumstances.
Their tactics can create feelings of sympathy towards the......
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Categories:
test the waters, emotions, encouraging, evil, truth,
Form:
Free verse
Life Is a Journey With Many Doors We Must Open...Life is a journey that is anything but turnkey
Full of many doors that we must open
As we find our way through another day
There are so many doors to choose from
Before all the opportunities
W......
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Categories:
test the waters, feelings, freedom, future, growing
Form:
Rhyme
Jumping Through Hoops...I jump through hoops for my girl
She's so hard to love and cherish
Can’t seem to find the precious words
To make her see I love her so
I touch her gently ever careful
She thrust me away every ......
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Categories:
test the waters, confusion, husband, love, wifelove,
Form:
Free verse
Writing With a Pen With No Ink...Hopeless is absence of hope. Black without color is what? The sun has so much energy that it keeps itself growing. Take in the sun's rays. Let it build you as tall as the sky. May your head rest with......
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Categories:
test the waters, adventure, courage, life, lost,
Form:
Voices In the Darkl...Cautious spirits test the waters of my world
and call to me....then go away.
Perhaps they are perfecting
inter-mind devices, just like
psychic Edisons, Marconi's revenant
in breakthrough just for m......
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Categories:
test the waters, faith, may,
Form:
Free verse
I Would, But Not Now...I would, but not now
My teeth sinking slowly into my tongue so I don’t scream at the baby
Milk all over the table, papers, dripping down onto the chair
I could, but I won’t
Screaming into the p......
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Categories:
test the waters, confusion,
Form:
Narrative
The Water...Do not disturb the water
The man once said to me
for those who've tried are no more
Quite mysteriously
They spoke of love and life once lived
A place called home, where all was his
It all burnt awa......
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Categories:
test the waters, death, dream, funeral, goodbye,
Form:
Rhyme
Liars and Lovers...I love with all my heart,
With passion I play my part;
But when love becomes a strife
I run for my heart and my life.
I leave you to test the waters;
Truth in love is all that matters.
I cannot......
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Categories:
test the waters, heartbroken, how i feel,
Form:
Couplet