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Best Undertows Poems

Below are the all-time best Undertows poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of undertows poems written by PoetrySoup members


Slamming the Super-Duper-Soupers
you want to know a secret
when I write a poem and it's perfect
i dont share it
i bury it 
deep inside of me 
where no one...

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© Nathan D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertows, humor, slam, perspective,
Form: Rubaiyat



Cotton and White Clouds
Cotton And White Clouds

Cotton squeezes spongy soft in sanguine undertows
Flows calmly through the gentle fingers slow
Babies feel them caress their tender skin and sigh
Thin fibers...

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Categories: undertows, adventure, baby, beautiful, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Anchor For Rancor
No Anchor for Rancor

Wounded the ship of my soul, 
With tattered sails,
Heels up in malevolence,
Venom puffs out the jib
In leeward grudges of tactless spite
On a...

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Categories: undertows, ocean, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Space Mermaids
The elliptical sea, ageless, timeless without fathoms depth
Of the eternal degree, its finite waves ushering against the
Everlasting shore of tranquility’s rush, a liquid vacuum of...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertows, adventure, art, beauty, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Survival Strategy
Each day he felt the distance growing,
separating him from where and who
they thought he should want to be.
Though he was adrift in the currents
of prevailing...

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Categories: undertows, angst, depression, health, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wolves of the Deep
All is still in deceptions abyss,
Beneath fathoms deep, aquatic,
Wolves are on the hunt.
Stealth predators unseen, unheard,
Hanging on the fringe of detections,
Outer limits.
In plain black and...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertows, adventure, animal, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Intolerance
From the womb I sprung forth in a storm unrelenting
waves crashing ashore, endless bending and blending
alone and defenseless to weather the tempest
the gales blew relentless,...

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Categories: undertows, betrayal, birth, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The One In the Lavender Dress
She looked peaceful in her lavender dress-
as I suppose she was. Eyes closed as if lost
in childhood dreams, small hands folded across her chest.
Her glasses...

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© Dana Young  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertows, anger, bereavement, death, emotions,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Gothic Nights
My chamber teems with tensions, taut, that logic can’t withstand,
fragmenting mental masonry with memories unplanned,
as bitter tears from hazel eyes reduce the stone to sand.

Dim...

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Categories: undertows, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanishing, the Sky's Majestic Blue
Vanishing, The Sky's Majestic Blue

Pristine views of sunset's glows,
Where sky flashes out its best,
No storming waters or undertows
Just beauty sinking in the west;
Nature wraps this...

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Categories: undertows, appreciation, art, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ocean Blue
As I gaze out upon the blue ocean,
 from my perch, on the cliff above .
 The incoming storm, hovers close by,
 I am watching...

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Categories: undertows, placesblue, blue, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bridge
Bridge

I whirl through moments etched upon my mind,
Sink through midnight layers where shadows creep,
Hear the rushing floods – no smooth waters find –
Crumbling day light...

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Categories: undertows, dark, morning, night,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Time's Polarity
Time's natural spaces,
a universe of footprints in remembered places.

Need kicks me in the ass 
and head.
Trauma iafterflows,
undertows,
crashing carnage 
with runaway horsepower.

Want is a branching step,
coincidentally...

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Categories: undertows, nature, time, truth, universe,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Moon Lost Its Balance
We sat aloft an isle dune
  peering over the ocean,
waves mesmerizing 
  our inner turmoil,
grainy surf's implosions 
    pulverized ego's...

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© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertows, anger, angst, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perspectives
Shadowed memories
intermingle with
childhood dreams of 
days long past.

Looking back on
the canon of Time
my dance with youth 
filled my heart with 
happiness 
enveloped by the love
of...

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Categories: undertows, absence, family, sad,
Form: Free verse

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