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Foundering Poems - Poems about Foundering


Time and Tide
...The tang of salt imbues the mist – a calling I cannot resist. I walk along the rocky shore held spellbound by the ocean’s roar. As darkness falls, the fog rolls in and, from the lighthouse, sh......

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Categories: foundering, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?
...Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow? The following extrapolated thought thread exercised, NOT utilized to intimate how Fats Domino belied, and wowed a crowded house ass-sized. ......

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Categories: foundering, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme



The Faith
...Moments in digression passed, Timeless time spent, misspent, The path of life on crossroads muddled, Reason withheld, judgement befogged. Encountering the hurdles abound, Paving way with all his......

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Categories: foundering, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Breaching the Battlefield
...Destruction lays all around, And my resolve is wearing thin. The harbinger of death taunts me, Into a fight I cannot win. My body's weak and foundering, And my mind's not thinking clear. As i......

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Categories: foundering, angel, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Water the Hub of Life
...Water glints, gurgles sustaining, enlivening, quenching ocean, clouds, rains, torrents flowing, filling, foundering wet, fluid pivotal, vital mere ......

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Categories: foundering, water,
Form: Diamante



Premium Member Drop Zone
...At the verge of parched tears arrested in fear Kim was enveloped by morbid sadness Enshrined in her prison cell and stiletto in hand tension rose on the surface buried i......

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Categories: foundering, death, depression, endurance, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost and Foundering
...I look out on the wide whole world and, in the new morning's Light, I take measure of all that is not yet Lost. And all that is not yet Found. The clouds, now reveal to the out-tur......

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Categories: foundering, bird, loss, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Falling Into Ocean, Sinking Into Sea
...Like falling into stillness - like stars that make no sound, I’m falling into ocean; there’s nothing I can do, and ever since a person’s birth, there is no solid ground. Tears ha......

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Categories: foundering, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Wooden Ships
...Ardent galleon cutting foamy high tide Each sliver born to venture yet farther Captain and lady, stout crew by their side, Still hailed by stalled gray frigate in harbor You’re bailing ......

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Categories: foundering, allegory, boat, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Praise From a Wealthy Vagrant
...To all who thought they had it all. It is not so much that You saw my need, but, rather, You showed my need to me, then filled it. I stood in riches, yet You created in me a hunger that only You c......

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Categories: foundering, religion, me, me,
Form: Pastoral
A Pinch of Civil Seasoning
...back at the Arab Spring and now a Wall Street Fall citizens of foundering faith just wanna change it all believing in a higher purpose is passing the way of the horse power to too few, or many, vers......

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Categories: foundering, caregiving, food, life, people,
Form: Quatrain
I
...So here it is, The soul transposed That never could quite lose control So here I am And here I stand A shell of what was once a man I used to know love's sweet caress I used to feel, within ......

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Categories: foundering, death, introspection, love, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?

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