Best Washed Poems

Since you have washed over me
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Drifting on a meandering stream
where clover dance and ripples direct my thoughts
to the promises of a new day

I dream I am floating in your arms

as currents gently tug
playing solitaire in wishing hands
among glistening diamonds on the surface

I search for each...

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Friday, I see the wounds and bow my head
I find no peace in the life I've led
There were no victories nor battles won
Oh Father, You gave us Your only Son
Saturday,  there is an ache I bear
As I hit my knees in tearful prayer
So many...

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Some memories of silver sands,
have faded like old photographs.
But waves rush in to ponder on, 
incoming tides of happiness.

Our shadows left upon the ground,
are looking for a sea-shell found,
and kites sail high upon the wind,
to take us back, just once again

We'd dig the sand, to...

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Heart Washed Ashore

“The sun of my reason has set.  
My thoughts have set sail and 
My heart was washed ashore last night.
Take me to the bottom of the ocean. 
There, I will build you a sandcastle.”

I asked you to bring me something from your...

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So fragile and tall,
as the big dreams that built it,
washed away by rain....

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Ripples once sweet     transformed into large breaking waves

Washing me away         Dragging me down
miles down into the abbyss  of an open ocean.

The zephyr breeze   once gentle and soft
turned and whirled into...

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Sins Of The World Washed Away:

The mist shrouds and floats in the valleys,
gentle wind moving it slowly.
Overcast skies, day gloomy,
bringing forth small rain drops.
Refreshing the trees,
cleansing nature
all around.
Renew.
Green.

Fresh
the air.
Moist petals.
Snails now roam.
Droplets of water,
clinging from all the leaves.
Now a rainbow does appear.
Everything seems bright and...

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I stole the surges of the ocean and the glory of the wave,
the roiling seas as recompense for what you never gave.

And I thought that I might see you at the dock or by the bay,
and I thought that you might love me, but my...

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white
clean shirts
drying in 
sunlight on line
washed in detergent soap by mother’s hand!
our minds nurtured by mother’s love and care,
should last lifetime,
unspoilt by
time and 
wear!

‘Double Tetractys 6’ Poetry contest
Eve Roper
Syllable count 1,2,3,4,10,10,4,3,2,1 (PS)
Written 22/11/2020

composed on Photo 1...

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Across the snow covered hill
the shadows lay before me, still
I search for words in the sunlight
But there are none, as if it is night
Maybe another time or day,
I will have much more to say
When the snow melts to the ground...
When spring brings forth its sound...
I...

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Here on a washed away hillslope
Water brought an acorn to grope
A little clay of Georgia red
Put down a tap root and make its bed
Took years to grow in this poor soil'
But it sustained on water___toil

Soil gave what nourishment she could
But help from rain that understood
Stony...

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Her hands were sore from carrying weights
That were heavier than her soul
She was worried about being late
To her own funeral
She prefered pretty lies 
Over what was real
When she opened her eyes
She was able to heal
But she stayed asleep
And never wandered far
She was counting sheep
While you...

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That new wave of love...... 
                              has washed away my name.........
     ...

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Dirty am I, was I until Jesus Washed Me Clean
O’ but that I have been lost
Trapped incumbent to this storm
Tattered and bathed in my own sin
until Jesus came and washed me clean
Trapped incumbent to this storm
Dirty was I now I'm cleansed
until Jesus came and washed...

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I ran down to the brook and sat in the shade,
and dreamed of all the little things that fade...
But it all just washed away...
Down the stream from blue to grey...

I ran down to the brook and sat by the stones,
I wrote of all the places...

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