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Dry Out Poems - Poems about Dry Out

Premium Member Interview with a Barnacle
... The recorder clicks on. What made you stay? I didn’t stay. I fastened. I was made to fasten. And if you're made to fasten, you look for something moving. Something strong enough......

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Categories: dry out, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Desert Rose
...A pretty little rose born in desert land Growing in torched hot sand Where loneliness all around And no company can be found Lashed by sunlight Dry out in hot thirsty night Though don't kno......

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Categories: dry out, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Haze
...THE HAZE Shuffle, I shuffle through the haze; Stopping just short of the light. I reach up, only stabbing with splinters the tiny fractions of time. It's this, this, this, and that. The pieces ......

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Categories: dry out, anxiety, courage, pain, strength,
Form: Free verse
Some tears will never dry
...Can this stream of tears ever dry? It won't stop, however I try! Its floods expand the more I cry! Each droplet can bake me a fry. So gentle souls could fly this high, That the birds could......

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Categories: dry out, bereavement, death, farewell, in
Form: Free verse
Michigan
...I’m from Michigan. I don’t know what I want. So I just go to school in state to save money. The money lives in a Michigan bank. I cheer our school mascot. At a football game and it rains and sno......

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Categories: dry out, america,
Form: Free verse



Unforgivable
...I'd love to dry out your arteries, and expose all your pleasantries. Lose you in the deserts braid, and use you as vulture bait. I'd drop you off the highest tower, into a monster eating flowe......

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Categories: dry out, anger, conflict, hate, how
Form: Rhyme
Sunday Thinking Cap
...I wore my thoughts on my head like a ball cap today Ready to take off and disregard or to turn around, tilted in the opposite direction Easy to grab at, to throw away, to steal, to sneaki......

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Categories: dry out, introspection, mental health, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Waiting for the storm to pass
...People started running, for buses, taxis, trains, with umbrellas no defence, against the wind and rain, a drowned rat cycled past, then disappeared down a lane, when lightening flashed, I dashe......

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Categories: dry out, rain, storm, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Howe Meadow ITQ
... Written: January 22, 2024 _________________________________________ I hear the wild cry as I sleep, no roaming goats or gulls or sheep. Tire them out, no trace of drea......

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Categories: dry out, analogy, appreciation, bird, flying,
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member horoscopes and hot air
...My Astrologer, ‘Sex and Love’ horoscope, for Halloween, is grim and on-trend for me. (Libra) “Get ready to take some chill-time - give yourself the space to recover. People pleasing is out, boundari......

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Categories: dry out, autumn, fashion, nonsense, school,
Form: Free verse
The Shovel
...It’s quite a thing to lay a life to rest, to place rocks over roots rotten with age, cover leaves once green with soil, sodden from rain. Conceived in the meeting of metal and wood, born a size......

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Categories: dry out, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Have a Woman
...I have a woman. I’m proud to call her my wife. Some give theirs’ nicknames, ‘her indoors’ and ‘the trouble and strife’ Now, I have my flaws and they are many and vast. I think like a man, slowly ......

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Categories: dry out, confusion, crazy, funny love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prescience of Mind
...Some things we can touch are truly set in stone, From creatures living in sand, to ones choking on fish bones They get stuck in mud, and dry out under the sun, til after a hundred m......

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Categories: dry out, allusion, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Too Damp To Be Wet
...A briefly wrung-out sky is blotched with clammy clouds. A humid air clings to my chest. Damp squirrels hang limply from dripping branches. Desultory birdsong mops but not much. I yearn for......

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Categories: dry out, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Song of a Pleading Heart
...Curse you! Oh! The river of time, Why should you be so cruel And embarrass your beautiful chime? Why should you bring her carriage, To ruin the song of love, To ruin a beautiful marriage? O' ......

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Categories: dry out, love,
Form: Free verse

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