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Flood Tide Poems - Poems about Flood Tide

Premium MemberWe Loved with Wild Abandon: full version

...Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. — Paulo C...
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Categories: flood tide, love,
Form: Free verse

Whispering Mind

...Emotionless eyes that have the colour of wind, looking in mine...killing me from inside.
Why do I feel so tired all the time?
Seeing everything you do, being blind.

Fearing your unstable mind, d...
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Categories: flood tide, abuse, depression, life, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberHoney On Asphalt

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In the crevices of a tired town,
roaches scuttle under moonlit sighs,
their dinky bodies torn by shadows 
that shroud the crumbling edges of life.

A cat lounges, indifferent,
i...
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Categories: flood tide, allusion, america, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOn Passion's Tide

...A storm blew in when I peered into his dark eyes
Fearing lightning would strike in bolts of midnight fire
Wanting his touch, though it might lead to my demise
Then full lips swept over mine, ignit...
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Categories: flood tide, passion, storm,
Form: Sonnet

Maelstrom

...I heard the drub of rain pelting the roof
Unaware that a storm had been brewing
Roar of thunder, flash of lightning gave proof
that I had no idea, no inkling of what I was doing.

Spirit...
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Categories: flood tide, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberF Is For : Footprints X 2

...along the strand
a pale mist
    a thinning haze..
footprints
evaporate
    on the flood tide...

MCCLUHAN'S LAW
In
the
headlines of today,
his fifteen minutes of fame-
ephemeral footprin...
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Categories: flood tide, beach,
Form: Verse

Squirrel With Raspberry

...Raspberry, as glaringly large
Package with bulk, bulging.
Squirrel-eyed and squirrel-grasped.
Nuts, bells; enough weighing!

Thinks me, thinks he, if and once dropped:
"The spillage! Red flood-...
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Categories: flood tide, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNature's Dominion Revealed

...nature thrives on bestrewn oddness.
earth is tame in its fresh safeness.
the same for the rest of the world.  
yellow, black, and white are all furled.

The geese there on guavas fee...
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Categories: flood tide, analogy, appreciation, beauty, inspirational,
Form: Lay

Premium MemberTranscendence

...Without fuss the sand
                 castle greets the flood tide   his
       reality changed;
                        the trade of  ebb  for the flow 
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Categories: flood tide, beach, death, destiny, father,
Form: Tanka

Rush of Summer's Breeze

...Love songs softly flow on a Summer's breeze,
Lyrics trilled by doves in sweet melodies.
My vagabond heart meanders no more
for you've given yours to me, mon amour.*

Your kisses assuage my h...
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Categories: flood tide, love, summer,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberSilhouette 4, Panacea

...SILHOUETTE (4/23) — PANACEA


Feelings unwrap
Emotional flood tide;
Emergent light

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Be true
Feel calm cue
Hear soul speak
Touch that peak
Live now meek

Here I style
A profound...
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Categories: flood tide, allusion,
Form: Free verse

A Cheerful Giver

...Dawn paints lush landscapes and woodland scenes
shades of lavender and rose, blended with gold.
Nature reaps the credit for the things we behold ~                          
flowers in Spring a...
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Categories: flood tide, giving,
Form: Rhyme

Mob Injustice

...I was not in a wrong place 
Neither was it a wrong time when I met my fate
I was unarmed with my sweat’s worth
Another day’s dime in my pocket

I was confronted by a flood tide of an angry crowd...
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Categories: flood tide, abuse, africa, anger, death,
Form: Rhyme

A Day Not Planned

...Like the waters of a flood 
I’m just not loved
you're beauty drowned
you are just giving me the run around

one more rain drop in a down pour
just another wave hitting the shore
flopsam to be ...
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Categories: flood tide, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

Blue Rivers

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"Blue Rivers"



Blue rivers 
run through a 
pale valley
branches merge
to an estuary
where life 
Bleeds

All in vain
Dreams are washed awa...
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Categories: flood tide, dark, muse, psychological,
Form: Free verse

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