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Best Water Washed Poems

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A Candid Rainscape
I watch the water trickle down my blank canvas,
The whole world is crying today...

      Nature has water-washed the Earth green,...

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Categories: water washed, flower, imagery, nature, rain,
Form: Free verse



Where I Am
We played in sandcastles made from falling mistakes...
The water washed away all my sins it could take...
Precious tears that dried before the pain went away...
Now...

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Categories: water washed, introspection, life, peace,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member God Will Not Be Mocked
GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED

He sits high upon golden calf
— invisible to naked eye.
If they saw him they’d know the half.
The mocking dragon waves goodbye.

The...

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Categories: water washed, bible, sin,
Form: Hybronnet
Making a Meal of It
Crudités, fresh, piled high and swaggering
From the market, bought this evening.
Thrusting carrots, earth still clinging,
Crisp cos, perky peppers, piquant roquette,
Rude red radishes, cucumber firm,
All in...

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Categories: water washed, food, passion,
Form: Free verse
Will the Rain Return To Make Us Fight the Stormy Weather
I found a kind moment lost  in your cloud tear

The heavenly water washed away our pain and fear

It drowned us both with love and...

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Categories: water washed, rain,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Summer and the River
Summer, 
	the Guadalupe River, 
	at least a couple of decades ago...
 	
	A bend in any river,
	no matter how slowly that river flows, 
	erodes the outside...

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Categories: water washed, summer, water,
Form: Prose Poetry
Sekt
We half-hearts cling as scaffold
Mouths of cellophane statements
Morphia inducing as our eyes talc-storm over
Seeing nothing in everything
Like a tank we collide, by the
Edges of a...

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Categories: water washed,
Form: Free verse
The Ghosts Behind the Graves On Omaha Beach
They were young then, now they would be old men looking across an empty beach, the sun at their back; for many this would be...

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© Steve Zak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: water washed, death, dedication, hero, history,
Form: Narrative
The Pitter-Patter of Rain
The Pitter-Patter of Rain 

I sit here on the porch listening, 
Watching the rain in the night.
Pitter-patter on my roof, 
I thought about all I...

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Categories: water washed, beautiful, blessing, christian, emotions,
Form: Verse
The Last Vacation
The sun seemed to last forever
As we walked hand in hand
My dad and I together
Our feet sinking in the sand

His smile was so bright
As he...

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Categories: water washed, grief, loss, memory,
Form: Prose Poetry
How Do I Explain?
How do I explain where I have been, new lover? 

Once, on warm summer nights 
I laid tangled in the darkness
Warmed against deep loneliness
In the...

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Categories: water washed, life, lost love, love,
Form: Romanticism
The Day I Married My Love
The day I married my love



How would I forget the day I married my love ?

The day daddy lavished  wealth and fame

As he filled...

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Categories: water washed, marriage, memory,
Form: Verse
Tranquility Belied
Fall trees stand empty,
water washed away their souls.
Wasted reflections.


For tranquility contest...

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Categories: water washed, nature, seasons
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Life of a Breakwater
The Life of a Breakwater
		
			A walk on the sharp shingle led to where
			The dry, smooth surface felt warm to our feet,
			The pale grey stonework embedded...

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Categories: water washed, beach, fun, summer,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Rain In the Night
I lay in bed listening to the rain in the night
Patter on my roof, patter, patter
I thought about all I have lost, wiped away, 
	-...

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Categories: water washed, loss, rain,
Form: Free verse

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