Long Bathwater Poems
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A Whole New WordEach English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
the editors must...
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Categories:
bathwater, word play, words,
Form:
Verse
Did You NoticeDid you notice?
What you have for breakfast,
despite what Mom said,
is probably less important than who you do
and do not
have breakfast with,
and why
The brand and make and year of your car
are less significant to...
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Categories:
bathwater, culture, humor, life, people,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Failed Crow of Elaine"I watch the bathwater drain"
says Tonight Alive with powerful refrain
stepping out of a bleach bath to hide from her pain
Hesitating, she turns the water back on, her self esteem slain
as she waits for...
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Categories:
bathwater, loss, love, love hurts, marriage, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Inevitability of HappinessToday,
there are no rubber ducks
or mother's marigold skirts
to hide behind
as we once did.
In their place,
lurking dark and hoary,
a bathtub mist
updrafts thick with loose spores,
and mildew veins
sprawling
behind caulked-over creases.
The day,
shrinking away heavy with time,
as a body
sagging
into
water.
Even...
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Categories:
bathwater, care, extended metaphor, fun, innocence, strength,
Form:
Free verse
EggshellsFrom a mouthful of this morning’s eggs,
I pull bits of char from yesterday’s breakfast.
‘I had no chance to scrub the pan’, I plea with myself-
But I still smash it over my skull
like a cartoon.
Every morning...
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Categories:
bathwater, angst, anxiety, child abuse, confusion, feelings, how
Form:
Free verse
Throw Away Bathwater, Not BabyGratitude attitude grow
Peacock attitude away throw
Though temptations line up in a row
Pointless, heartless any soul you to hurt
Under no circumstances invective blurt
Because so doing grows you curt
Achieving trinkets, reaping limpets
As you blow trivial trumpets
Deriding,...
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Categories:
bathwater, poems,
Form:
Free verse
Five Fraught FacesBuried beneath blood-shot baby doll eyes
where drowns dark truths dwelling empty despair,
finds five fraught faces from false idol lies
clinging cold-coffins caused by cruel affair;
Saddled by sorrow seen in mother’s stare,
washed while...
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Categories:
bathwater, death, scary,
Form:
Rhyme Royal
If It's Not Broken, Don'T Fix ItI like fixing broken things. ...
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Categories:
bathwater, america, together,
Form:
Political Verse
Waterway"You drown not by falling in a river, but by staying submerged in it.”
A gentle mist
billows above the man-made pond
that spawns a rippling
sorrel-dusky brook
that ebbs and widens as it becomes
a river.
The runnel is dark rust...
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Categories:
bathwater, allusion, angst, anxiety, beautiful, color, deep,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The BathThe darkest moments come when she’s in the bath,
…she sits there, waiting for them, staring into
The ignominious bathwater, so crystal clear,
Beckoning her head to sink into its cleansing purity,
The baptism of quiet bubbling...
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Categories:
bathwater, death, sad
Form:
Free verse
The Fools of GodIn dreams I see them:
Men and women, in Renaissance attire,
Moving about in silence in some fabulous cathedral
Full of silent Coptics and other sombre monks,
Their faces, all but one of them,
Obscured to uniformity by cloth
Silent themselves,...
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Categories:
bathwater,
Form:
Free verse
Independent Gods“I fight the good battle!” I thought:
But a warrior
whether Christ’s or the Devil’s, or Self
is still “A blade held high” demon
of sorts, though the conscious motive
May be of highest righteousness--
the transformation of darkness into light.
The...
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Categories:
bathwater, introspection, meaningful, perspective, philosophy, truth, vanity, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Sarcasm Soup- Time To Take a Bath!Time to take a bath
When the flies buzz around you
(and they are wearing masks!)
And the room deodorizer leaves the room
It's time to take a bath
Believe me, it's not too soon!
When the bathwater turns inky
And people...
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Categories:
bathwater, funny, health, life, time, time,
Form:
Burlesque
Bread and LemonadeOne
What good is it, to complicate flesh and bone you've yet to know?
To paint portrait a brain only seeing the mask-y Face,
It is a canvas that is sure to lie.
What use is...
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Categories:
bathwater, adventure, analogy, anxiety, depression, discrimination, emotions, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Casting Off The Bow LineCasting Off The Bow Line
Goodbye
my unwed darling
I’m married
to this dream
Freedom
calling out to me
betrothal thus
redeemed
Bachelorhood
a Siren’s calling
Feted tween
the sails
Truant winds
to act upon
Legends
tell the tale
Setting off
this final time
Rudder
in my hand
Truth when hoisted
up the mast
Liberty
— commands
(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)
So...
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Categories:
bathwater, poetry, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
One MissingI want to write a song today from six feet under here.
Won’t paint to kill the dead saints but I want to make it clear
that I’ve been praying in the dark while lying in this...
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Categories:
bathwater, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
In The Same VeinPrisoner Of Language
Will time live eternal
or just its retelling
A prisoner of language
whose paradox mined
Dimension in contrast
ill-fated contrition
To look but not touch
—and hope they align
(Rosemont College: December, 2023)
Through A Vacuum
Biologically tethered
time is the demon
Your flesh and...
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Categories:
bathwater, time,
Form:
Rhyme
The Seasons of StyleThe Seasons of Style
the season of style
like a vernal pool edged round
raked and baked by the elements
of which it was formed; cracks
a trend seamless and current
flowing from detergent springs
as bubbly as bathwater
flowing down a...
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Categories:
bathwater, gothic, muse, sometimes,
Form:
Free verse
SurviveThe survivor
The pandemic has taken its toll, the survivors have fled to the woods
the town is full of mice, rats have decided to stay in their sewers
and sea-gulls get fat.
The...
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Categories:
bathwater, best friend, butterfly,
Form:
Blank verse
Left Over TomatoThe halved tomato
was freezer bagged and kept in the fridge too long
Breakfast is nothing without a tomato
but this melting fruit
is in a dream state. Not corrupted yet,
not rotten as we might explain rotten,
just spoiled, going...
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Categories:
bathwater, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Child SoldierMy village was dusty and burning
Everyone was screaming and running
I stood dumb in the chaos, my eyes rolling
Tried to listen out for mother’s calling
The noise of death was the only sound
My pants wetted, a boot...
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Categories:
bathwater, africa, child, child abuse, children, conflict, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Autopsy On SelfI cannot love you.
At least, not anymore.
If even there was ever love left in the cacophony
Behind my burning eyelids,
The osseous cavity that I emptied
Out like bathwater into the sea.
I am not who I...
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Categories:
bathwater, death, future, heart, introspection, self, success, suicide,
Form:
Rhyme
Purple Bathwater.darkness.
compounded heat.
eyes closed,
seeing the stars and shapes float by.
the space in front of me,
difficult to say whether its black or red.
the space in front of me,
it's suffocating.
purple bathwater.
is this the way i bleed?
not cold and...
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Categories:
bathwater, death, life, sad, space,
Form:
Free verse
Conservative - What I Stand For~ I am a Conservative
Here is who I am
and what I stand for ~
C ...
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Categories:
bathwater, identity, perspective, philosophy,
Form:
Acrostic
Tempus Fugitanother day is almost done
scented bubbles - an anticipation
warm water calls her by her name:
a relaxing "mom time" accommodation
with exhalation, hands gently grasping
a book binding worn to smooth
eyes lusting for a deep escape
each written word...
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Categories:
bathwater, care, mom, mother, muse, self, time,
Form:
Rhyme