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Drownings Poems - Poems about Drownings


Premium Member Undertow
... We met on the seam between two drownings, his cuff snagged in the kelp, my mouth lined with moss. He grinned like a man who'd forgotten the surface, held out his hand like a memory. I t......

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Categories: drownings, art, dance,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Inclement
...Inclement Of course, skies are not always clear our Inclement Mother – we give a pass for the flowers and crops seem to outweigh the floods and drownings – besides, we choose where we reside a......

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Categories: drownings, character, christian, faith, heart,
Form: Prose Poetry



I CHOSE
...I chose to write, For all those torn-off branches, For all those scarred backs, For all those dehumanized bodies, For all those centuries of persecution. I chose to read, To decon......

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Categories: drownings, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Uncontainable
...Uncontainable (Music playing) “I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh lord and I’ve been waiting for this moment, for all of my life, oh lord Can you feel it coming in the air tonight, o......

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Categories: drownings, character,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Blues Boating Home
...Human history is difficult; hard pressed, discovering and rediscovering, connecting and reconnecting feelings about therapeutic needs and sacred wants for trauma-prevention peace trust joy ......

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Categories: drownings, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Conflicted By Self-Ness
...Pick is conflicted by self-ness She rarely ponders or introspects but it is a weird evening Pan, her cousin, would never understand, so she will not bother. She stands at the edge of the swamp, ......

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Categories: drownings, fairy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Novus Ordu Seclorun
...The new education system In truth it’s meant to twist ‘em Into something that A child ain’t meant to be It steals their precious playtime Corrupts their daily timeline It heralds a New World Or......

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Categories: drownings, america, bible, corruption, education,
Form: Rhyme
Whither Blows the Wind
... Sarcophagus beetles gnaw on these bones buried in the catacombs They still have zombie feast needs of me long after I’m gone The scratching on the whited stones of the sunken mauso......

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Categories: drownings, dark, death, horror, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silly Fool
...Mestor, son of Poseidon steady gaze upon a dazzling mermaid saffron blaze. Wind swept across her brunette wet long hair, thoughts of a net and human ways, hooted in shrill amaze. Mestor woke a......

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Categories: drownings, fantasy, ocean,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Mocked and Forgotten
...Beneath an orange sky and huge rainbow, Mestor, free spirited son stops the flow over his dad Poseidon, God of the sea, rift widen climbs upon his narwhal, puts on a show. Setting off wit......

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Categories: drownings, fantasy, imagery, ocean,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Joy Surfs the Ocean
...Dedicated to my friend and fellow Souper, Jannie Breedt Ocean-born wave rhythms rock their roll just as motions my own soul does extol since first we seascap......

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Categories: drownings, dedication, friendship, giving, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Psychosomatic
...Degree work again! With Aberdeen University, Long distance, so not in strange surroundings, This time in the subject of my choice and tenacity, For posterity, so as to keep above the drownings. ......

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Categories: drownings, bible, education, happiness, parents,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On Conserving Ecopolitical Stamina
...Note to Grover Norquist and others with corporate political non-responsibility persuasions: When you were 21 you "decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21." A fe......

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Categories: drownings, community, freedom, health, patriotic,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Reign of Poseidon
...His beginning was his end, being swallowed by Cronus Fortuitously his fortune averted when through Zeus he was saved With his trusted trident his magnificence reigned Amphritite at his side, a......

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Categories: drownings, dedication
Form: Free verse

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