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Brackish Poems - Poems about Brackish

Dawn Pond
...Brackish lichen forms a raft upon the pond, a low haze floats like a moored airship. Small frogs chirrup sotto-voce as if they were dreaming sparrows. Water birds dabble in their sleep. Soon ......

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Categories: brackish, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Love Drifts
...Brackish nerves languish and latch like seashells clinging to the shore— something in the water pulls them in… some fervor from something Familiar and Ancient. I’ve seen your eyes before… ......

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Categories: brackish, bereavement, character, courage, giving,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Blue Cheese and Old Pickles
... I fought the good fight, yet still I lost and you stood in brackish silence with bitter reward in briny eyes proffering spiny frowns shoulders crumbled with aging ache and brow dimpled with so......

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Categories: brackish, angst, betrayal, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Murders in Mumford Part 1
...A love twisted in a high school romance, Both fixated on puppy dog eyes, Skipping classes followed by lies, Predictions to never be seperated, Only as much as parents tolerated, They would run i......

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Categories: brackish, murder, mystery,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Set Of B
...Bystanders of waves, plethora of marine life; Awe inspiring breach. Bandeleros break the grip of society; Culture’s climate shifts. Brackish voices sing the blues inside the bayou; Salty ......

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Categories: brackish, emotions, feelings,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Purgatory
...When will my judgment come? He asked of him, who stood, face shadow-masked in moonlit dark, beside his right. Don't let it be this mournful night. Perhaps so, or not; has, or ne'er, they rasped,......

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Categories: brackish, dark, death, dream, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eels of Kalapana's Queens Bath
..."Kalapana Queens Bath was a hole in the ground filled with brackish water (salty seawater mixed with fresh mountain filled rainwater) and host to living mysteries," ... by The Poet. It......

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Categories: brackish, beautiful, childhood, color, imagery,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member Life Raft in Amber
...When brother was fading away black chimes signaled for the demons to play They attacked all sides of the hobbled mind Treating the heart like an orphaned marble They were rabid and had brackish i......

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Categories: brackish, brother, god,
Form: Free verse
Tin Soldier
...In twilight's hush, 'neath olive boughs, The wind does sing its somber vows, A tin soldier stands, a lone array, Where whispers waltz at close of day. His heart, a drum, beats soft and slow,......

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Categories: brackish, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holy Punchers
...I think hell to be like a midnight grocery store shelves filled with burning crucifix and pestilence. Bloody-black water up to the necks of Half-souls. Groping mindlessly in the dark... searching......

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Categories: brackish, hello,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Another Dream
... Another Dream Sounds of morning, fluid undertones, yet cacophonous; Rhythmic rustling of nearby trees form the baseline for tropical chaos. Each added layer draws me further into distraction......

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Categories: brackish, dream, imagination, inspirational, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Call me River
...Lifeless tree deep summer swell mind is weapon sky is hell branch is thorn silence key gateless godless atrophy Summer fire winter locks ice and flame in equinox bloom and buzz ......

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Categories: brackish, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sliders
... "Sliders" 500 clicks down, was code phrase for battle ships gone all depth charge. The deeper you go down that black-holed sink, the more you understand in your oxygen deprived brain,......

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Categories: brackish, satire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Hate Wet Socks
...I hate wet socks. I'm knee-deep with diapers floating by. The steel stairs steps (that go up!) Just 10 feet from me. Seawater pouring in from every orifice. I'd be dead already if I had not bri......

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Categories: brackish, boat,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Plea For Awesome Phrase
...On a shattered pebble beach my kernel, becomes this dervish dancing to the maniacal symbol rash tune, of inchoate monsoon grass beat timpani, that’s dimly frowned on by sonic virtuoso, but terms ......

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Categories: brackish, care, character, color, creation,
Form: Free verse

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