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Drainage Poems - Poems about Drainage

Premium Member5:31 am

...I’m losing a battle I did not choose to fight in,
I have waited nearly fourteen years for freedom. 
There is still no stopping him. 
I lay next to someone I adore and 
He still clogs my thoughts ...
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Categories: drainage, abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Spoken Word

Xhosa pool

...#Xhosa_pool
Today I fell into a Xhosa pool, still grappling with my recovery, my shivering mind. In there something epic hides, an enormous emotional drainage. Feel robbed off weight, side and focus...
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Categories: drainage, fantasy, fate, feelings, flower,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberrepugnant rich

...Repugnant Rich worked in a drainage ditch
Smelling of sewer water, he developed a twitch
Detestable conditions for a graduate of M.U.
But he made a fortune and got off at two....
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Categories: drainage, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFAITH IN GOD WHO ENABLES US TO OBEY HIS VOICE

...March 9 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 30-31 

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 30:8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments which I comman...
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Categories: drainage, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberQuantum Challenged II

..."Referencing an old poetic imagism sort of poem I wrote some four years ago--almost to the day---wherein lies a paradox," ... by The Poet.

MIRROR, MIRROR

I was in a room,
there, I saw ...
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Categories: drainage, analogy,
Form: Imagism



User Response Poem: 51st Street

...Someone saw me digging through the trash this morning
And gave me five bucks
The embarrassed gin-mace of the nursing home volunteer
Plastered to his face 
For the three seconds I could see it 
B...
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Categories: drainage, anger, anti bullying, care,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTopical Poem

...Never have I seen trouble as deep as 
The catastrophe in Tamaulipas.
I chanced on a 6-kilometer crack -
A lot of information to unpack.
If you fall into the crack, it seems,
You'll be in China o...
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Categories: drainage, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe pasture

...The pasture ahead torn in half
Trees growing tightly together in the distance
The undulating ground beckoning your entrance
The trees left and right in your perriferal
The barren land 
Could be ...
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Categories: drainage, nature,
Form: Free verse

COMPASSION IN THE CYCLONE THAT IS LIFE

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The twinkle of an eye
blinks in the same time span as a bullet fired 
and the casing hitting the floor 

Birds’ wings flutter at different speeds
but a hummingbird’s wings are much faster
a c...
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Categories: drainage, care, culture, feelings,
Form: Free verse

The Story Untold

...The Untold Story

The flashing headlights intensely illuminated the gloomy faces of the sweetgum tree
The tears fell from the sky like God's Shower , constant and cleansing
The troubled night shr...
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Categories: drainage, angel, black love, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Pondage

...Built pondage on the river
To benefice farming and husbandry;
Fruitful sources of food for the villagers.
Right-minded under the Nature.

Any pondage has strengths and weaknesses.
The builder m...
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Categories: drainage, farm, heart,
Form: Free verse

Come Into My Own

...It is now only I who can sing the song of thought
The orchestra between my ears swells with emotion
Not only to guide, but to monitor sound
Sound I speak with empty fear and full intention

I am...
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Categories: drainage, birth, change, character, deep,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSong of a Raindrop

...I am a rain drop flopped down from the clouds
I could have landed in a river or the sea
Then merging with the rising and receding waves
I would have been washed down into oblivion
Or could ha...
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Categories: drainage, blessing, growing up, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRepeat Offender

...My Granddad can’t stay on the straight and narrow
Robs garden centres with his bow and arrow, 
Police knew his scheming 
So now he is screaming
Speeding downhill in a plastic wheelbarrow
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Categories: drainage, grandfather, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberDilly-Dally of Dandelions

...The base word “dally,” from old French used to mean to chat idly.

dilly-dally of dandelions - seeds on fire, blown
    downward.       inspire
molten icing—  erupting,
disrupting    th...
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Categories: drainage, angst,
Form: Free verse

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