Best Undertow Poems

It's like a powerful undertow that pulls you down below, 
till darkness swirls around you and there's no place you can go. 
It fills your head with sadness and it buries any hope, 
and soon you find that sleeping is the only way to cope....

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The Great Escape - The Birds - Charade - The Fugitive, The Twilight Zone 
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World-
Civil rights, Viet Nam 
The Beatles begged to hold my hand

The day was young and so was I
My eyes were focused inward, never far my...

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Bombarding the bong like oxygen is wrong 
drinking alcohol like you’re a bottomless hole,
The speed the base the MDMA
the pace of life wastes you away
cocaine and ecstasy 
next day looking wrecked to me
Ketamine replaces vitamins 
face changes, unrecognisably 
Why buy more supplies 
When supplies die...

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The Undertow


The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow

The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed and flowed at the pair inside
It was hard for them to try to...

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While casual, coral reef cruising, marlin flygirl fishing,
my dinghy eyes got capsized 
into the shimmy-ing belly of a barracuda
Crustacean curiosity got sent on an abdominal mission

My dinghy eyes got capsized ... 
chum dummy fell overboard into the deep end
Lost in an ocean of pulse infatuation,
sponge...

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Save me from this charged mound,
swirling in mundane cynicism's break
where styrofoam vultures circle overhead
and snap their beaks with convoluted grace.
Pull my flesh back,
and cauterize my need to wonder;
I know there's nothing out there anyway-
except the swallow of disenfranchised freedom
and innovated misunderstandings.
Replace these organs with the...

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Rap to the rhyme
Rhyme for a reason
A blast from the past
Its the changing of the season
Like Fat Joe in the undertow
Homeboy is still on top
not one of those rappers that drink a lot
Just like fetty Wapp
Making headwaves through the days
Society getting caught in a purple...

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UNDERTOW


stress and undertow
pull my calamitous legs
hourglass empties sand
~
sun beads on my brow
the sea encircles my flesh
driving me under
~
but for God, i’d drown
my spirit within me fights
my tired flesh gives in
~
God catches my fall
he carries me to the shore
he kisses my head

Kim Rodrigues © 2017
A series...

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Your arsenal never seemed so weak 
when you showed up  after countless weeks
we didn't speak
you were living in the moment
Why does this tunnel light
never seem to close?
it leads me down this shadow path
I never even asked
about that overdose.

I twist I trip to intervene
come in...

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On the surface the water is nice,
To step in and swim would cost you no price
But when you step in, you feel a sharp pull
It comes from the water that seemed gentle and cool
The rippling liquid pulls you down under,
Is everything how is appears?
Its this...

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UNDERTOW OF NOSTALGIA
the ambiguous
    explored
on an indeterminate
surface

liberating
    the emotional freedom

 a splintered breakaway
  of
    excitement
& expectation
improvement
 emphasised
    by  innovation
effect& consequence
emphasised

 trends in full force
conveying
emotion
 meaning
  suggestion &
heightened sensation

a super reality
in the unconscious
  with enduring influence

maturity
denial
 of instant predictions
&priorities
factored to emergine
as motivations
    I re engage


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique...

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A soak-of-hands linked together - the brave hope of tether saves a life

7/15/2019...

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Waves
Onyx blue and nearly suffocating
I reach
Far back in my memory
And beckon the lessons learned
Of measured, freestyle sweeps
Stretching every cell to beat high tide

I look once more across our prairie sea for that dependable horizon
Night shades yawn and stretch
My bones give up their adrenaline lifelines
My heart...

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The holidays engulfed me
Sorrows of years past
Trapped me in depression
It's quicksand holding me under
Just trying to survive this descent.

Into darkness and madness 
Struggling to awaken this dream
Distant reminders now alive within
The fleeting memories rush inside
Gruesome details vividly appear.

Long since gone, loved ones passed
Heartache choking my...

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Let yourself fall out of that trance..
there’s no wrong way to cast magick
Poppet, we can’t lose all we’ve known 
for more than a millennium
a ritual will mirror just one thing
the heart and intention of the spell
there’s no reason for a talisman 
unless you can understand...

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