Best Undercurrent Poems

I could never communicate to you my pain;           it was always hit or miss.
Maybe you sensed where my burden lay,            but far more likely,
You...

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Her husband passed away so suddenly
she pastes a smile on her face ...
heartache is kept inside

Three young children miss their daddy so much,
she tries to make fun filled days ... 
life just has to go on

When she is all alone in the evening
she sobs into...

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the undercurrent pulls 
drawing me down
to murky dark depths
where sinister abounds

the undercurrent pulls
my body it sweeps
pulling my out
its anger it keeps

the undercurrent draws
a turbulent tempt
it tumbles my heart
with vehement intent

the undercurrent rages
But I'm sturdy and strong
adept in the water
for that's where I belong

the undercurrent subsides
I'm...

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An Olympic swimmer named Pete
Is disqualified – when caught as a cheat
He propelled through the water
Much faster than he aughta
It’s down to the food he would eat

Before each race he eats sprout curry
Then enters the pool in a hurry
He farts during each length
Stench increases in...

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The hurt is pooling in my throat

and to avert the watershed,
you build the dams I tolerate,
make my demands the stagnant moat
where if the bridge is drawn, I'll drown

So I hold on to stay afloat

Then, once I'm safely back onboard,
your gaze, a hazel gray garrote,
will take...

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Waking to the sadness called “a new day”
truth passes over the mind
love one just cannot find

Hiding the undercurrent of a sigh
the heart refuses to breathe
and stays melancholy

Sleeping in the shadows of lonely nights
dreams foretell of future loss
bid barefoot wanderings

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You fly far, don’t return to nest at dusk,
my loneliness, frozen night,
melts in tears at drab dawn.

You drift away in currents of torment,
my heart splinters like pebble
in cascade of sadness.

Storm of discord rifts our frail horizon, 
cloudburst sky cleaves the yearning,
I lose you in debris.

November...

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Undercurrent of Melancholy


                               beneath yawning ribs time-eaten bay sinks
      ...

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sudden tears erode the beach in his eyes.
swift vortex,  of addiction
                     and shame,        grave undertow.

eyes and taut...

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It's miraculous how a tiny seed can grow into a tree 
And it's nothing Less how your sweet voice can steal my heart from me
From lowest lows to highest highs you span the sonic plane
With melOdies and harmonies that soothe like summer rain
I never in a...

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Aphotic beneath countless depths 
energy fleeting, gloom haunting 
insipid jailers keep locks metaphorical 
never owning peace, quarrel, rage, surrender 
torture understated, verve waned 
xanthic ylem zombie...

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disconsolate flow of cascading woe
resonates in my aura-
for I am despondent 

implicated in melancholic fears;
visceral scars, my zenith-
apathetic spirit

mediocre ways of my days somber,
feeding the grimace pain wears-
undercurrent echoes

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(howmanysyllables.com)

Date - November 6, 2019
Chosen theme - Undercurrent of Melancholy
Sponsor - Edward Ibeh...

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Poems I pen echo melancholy
and I take your hand in mine -
down a woebegone path . . .

Feel each word for the deep nuance whisper
each gloomy memory drips -
hidden is a sweet joy . . . 

Come reader on my poetic  journey
read my mournful...

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UNDERCURRENT OF MELANCHOLY

     Flow of melancholy in opulence
      pricking piercing pleasant pain
       oozing from chasm of heart.
      
      Somber solemn...

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