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Best Undertow Poems

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Premium Member Undertow
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...

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Categories: undertow, depression, health, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Your Ocean
I stand on the edge of your ocean, ready to dive in
Wanting to discover the depths of you
I have looked at the surface of you
Beautiful...

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Categories: undertow, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tadhana
I may never know what exactly happened,
but I think I know the why of it

Tadhana…Fate…Destiny…Kismet…

Put it in so many words,
but it all boils down to...

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Categories: undertow, inspirational, life, loveday,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fair Wings and Following Seas
Far, far out at sea one day
          A Hummingbird so found its way
   ...

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Categories: undertow, bird, nature, ocean, sea,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Upon a Desert Sea
The full moon was half risen above the Earth
shining her nightlight across cooling desert sands.
She smiled, deep in thought and a sense of mirth,
"This could...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertow, moon, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Double J - Just Jetsam
Marred and minced remnants pile high in a storm’s swarm
Yesterdays, hardened-soft, surface where sea’s warm…

Flotsam found, lays tales around, in frayed traces
Another shattered shell whimpers...

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Categories: undertow, allusion,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Under the Canopy
Under the canopy of the pine trees we lay -
       from the poem 'Under the canopy of pine trees...

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Categories: undertow, beauty, love, nature, senses,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Beyond the Breakers
In shallow waters, I look out to sea.
Small waves are lapping, giving me a sting 
upon my legs with their frigidity.
My body, with my thoughts,...

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Categories: undertow, dream,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Tell Me Why You Haunt Me So
Tell me why you haunt me so.
I must admit that I don’t know.
But thoughts of you fill up my mind
And won’t be left behind.
You’ve entered...

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Categories: undertow, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member YOU CANt ESCAPE THE WEATHER

With accompaniment of rain, the tweets pour into my ear.
Saturation of sound, mottled bark and sodden moss.
Must be the downfall of civilization, heavens tears.
In God’s...

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Categories: undertow, imagery, senses, sin, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Randomlings 1-34
Randomling 1:  Matthew Macfadyen

I believe I'm in love with Matthew Macfadyen
He inspires in me a terribly bad yen
But as poetry goes
His name 'spires woes
Cause...

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Categories: undertow, cat, deep, depression, dog,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Out of the Water
Hooves of aquatic thunder these white steeds
Of wonder, slamming against the coral reef
As hail storms rage, set us free their voices
Softly speak through the seashells...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertow, adventure, america, beauty, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Sea Storms Lullaby
In the rocking, rolling surf I picked up a random seashell,
And just listened to the sea storms lullaby, the curling of
Spray urged a hushed soft...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertow, adventure, beauty, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Merchant Ship
A swallow swoops for flitting flies
While Johnny rubs exhausted eyes
(As morning clasps the rising sun)
Confirming Captain’s day’s begun:
Slow streams emerge from melting snows -
The Merchant...

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Categories: undertow, allegory, morning,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Paper Roses of Love
Image if one will, a field where paper roses grow,
Each color an emotion, it's variations symbolic to 
Feeling felt, and yet expressed.
Compositions of love letters,...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertow, beauty, emotions, friendship, imagination,
Form: Free verse

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