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Best Tread Water Poems

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Two Spirits Watching the Ocean of Turmoil
Life is like being a passenger on a luxury ocean liner 
 That is sails across a Sea of Turmoil.
 Passengers feel safe by putting...

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Categories: tread water, boat, corruption, life, recovery
Form: Free verse



Childhood Beach Outing
Dug deep down inside
and pulled out the memory file
about being a child
with my family for
a rare outing at Jones Beach,
we were all there with
my Moms...

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Categories: tread water, beach, childhood,
Form: Light Verse
Plate Tectonics
I wait for the deluge
To see Arizona's Coast
Join hands, tread water....

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Categories: tread water, natural disasters, nature
Form: Haiku
Hooked Fish, Fish, Fishing Shadows, Fish
FISHING SHADOWS © Haiku 

Two fins tread water
Fish swim the shadowed shelf ledge 
Breathing  from its gills!


Swimming Fish © Haiku 

Probing fish swim near...

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Categories: tread water, fire, fish, time,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member We Bend But Never Break
We Bend but Never Break

Stand your ground the Monarchs cry
defend our power, do not ask why
Know we rule by our divine right
murder so easily with...

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Categories: tread water, america, appreciation, conflict, culture,
Form: Rhyme



Eternal Breath
A wall of chill and bleak desire
are all that's left me now.
But wait, I feel you in me here
within my heart somehow.

This feeling deep inside...

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© Deb Wilson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tread water, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Go Bang
“Go BANG!”



"Is that a gun in your pocket?"
She said

"Careful, I recommend
you need to be undercover, 
and soon, call it Espionage M
You’re so disjointed
It's exasperating
but endearing"
He...

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Categories: tread water, fantasy, humorous, word play,
Form: Free verse
My Lil Big Brother
When he was a child, He threw my belongings out the window
Gazed upon me not knowing, Where I would go
Belt welts for my belongings, He...

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Categories: tread water, appreciation, brother, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pulmonary
"Pulmonary"



Revelations burn pulmonary
when all the bees no longer roar
life drowns in blue-green

Clairvoyants dance in time 
with prophets to flux events
Light folds Dark inside out 

Lizards...

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Categories: tread water, animal, bird, fish, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Little Big Brother
When he was a child, He threw my belongings out the window
Gazed upon me not knowing, Where I would go
Belt welts for my belongings, He...

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Categories: tread water, brother, love, sister, strength,
Form: Couplet
Spelunker
Adventures in the underground                 	    ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tread water, adventure, funny, nature, places,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Intermission Break: the Flow
"The Flow"




I walked into the Ocean today
the Wind was wild whipping up the waves
like lemonade white horses riding into shore
I tread water, the Aquamarine was...

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Categories: tread water, freedom, home, love,
Form: Free verse
Strokes While Forgiving My Regret
She called me her angel
A week before she died
I didn't see beyond the mask
I only heard my own sigh

Her cry was lost
Like her ashes now

The...

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Categories: tread water, deathgod, sweet, god, sweet,
Form: Bio
Red Scarlet Heart
‘RED SCARLET HEART’

 Cardinal desire misled chastened into submission instead
To tread water in the deep end of humanity a ruby watershed
Surrender is fed comfort zones...

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Categories: tread water, depression,
Form: Rhyme
I'M Never Greeted.
Dead dried leaves,
and i bleed for reasons unknown,
I'm the last breath your life receives.
No king will fill the high throne.
And once again my chromosomes make...

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Categories: tread water, lifeme, me,
Form: Rhyme

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