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Electric Anticipation
I can feel it. 
It’s not quite tangible, 
Just out of reach,
Yet nonetheless real. 
Like a sixth sense on my sixth sense. 
The anticipation hangs in the air, 
The thick, jelly like, immovable air. 
Tempers...

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Categories: swim against the tide, anxiety, power,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Whom It Might Concern
To Whom It May Concern

If I should suddenly take my last breath
Leave my mortal coil behind
And succumb to the dark of death
Think this of me

I may have been a simple humble man
For a brief moment...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, angst, forgiveness, identity,
Form: Verse
A Piece of Respect
In times of affliction
I raise a voice.
A pain in my heart
Difficult to disguise.

A tale of wrong
You cannot deny.
A wound so deep,
It makes me cry.

Delicate and subtle,
But sublime by nature.
Chosen for you,
From the Greatest Protector.

Like a...

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Categories: swim against the tide, faith, life, people, religion, social, allah, allah,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Passion Pits
My father had a passion to swim in the open sea
He used to shout, come on,” *Babu, will teach you”.
But never had the courage to respect his calls due.
While I sat on the sand watching...

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Categories: swim against the tide, passion, father, me, father, me, passion,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Birdwatching
Everyday I go birdwatching,
I see them-
Seagulls, Geese, Humming birds-
Flutter and puff out their wings,
To soar the tinted sky-
Dancing along the clouds like small jets,
Or the carefree glide of paper aeroplanes.

I watch as their wings carry...

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© Toby Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, analogy, animal, bird, mental health, suicide,
Form: Free verse



Like a Bridge
If there was ever any doubt in your mind
You know that I would be the last person to leave you behind
Need or require anything,  if I have it, I would give it to you,...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, friendship, mum,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member A Poet's Lament Recited
PERPETUAL POEMS
A poem is never merely still born,
It has its creator's eyes,ears and nose
Yet,unique it lives  a life of its own
Independent,well able to stand alone;
On others it can,influence,affect
Energise,direct or initiate
A response,unforseen and immediate
Or lie...

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Categories: swim against the tide, writing, perspective,
Form: Bio
Waves of Dreams
Life’s ocean of colors carries me 
home. Red and blue waves flow into you 
and days gone by. I am afloat, often 
rolling over and under its surf, a tidal wave 
reflected violet like a...

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Categories: swim against the tide, dream, emotions, life, loneliness, memory, strength, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member R Is For Retrospective
R is for RETROSPECTIVE
A poem is never merely still born,
it has its creator's eyes,ears and nose
Yet,unique it lives  a life of its own
independent,well able to stand alone

On others it can,influence,affect
energise,direct or initiate
A response,unforseen and immediate
or...

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Categories: swim against the tide, life, poetry,
Form: Bio
The Bargaining Wench Wanting Payment


                Shadows hiss_per, of secret, 
buildup-congealed,
no longer trapped within curiosity's seals.
Oceans of thoughts crash, unrested,
on the rocks and hard-placed
reveal of...

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Categories: swim against the tide, art,
Form: Rhyme
The Wilderness Within
I walked out of a home, a cage, safety and routine,
And ventured into the wild, where beasts roam free.
The dangers were plenty around me, but so was the thrill,
And I knew in my bones, this...

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© David Chen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, adventure, environment, freedom, inspiration, meaningful, power, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Summer Walk
The sun is slowly rising and a soft wind gently blows
We are heading for the beach to feel the sand between our toes
There is something about the summer sun and a walk along the shore
That...

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Categories: swim against the tide, life, sea, summer, me, summer, sun,
Form: Quatrain
In Depth
Whatever happened to in depth analysis?
Whatever happened to in depth discussion?
Whatever happened to in depth research?
Whatever happened to in depth investigation?

Are we doomed to a life in the shallows for millennia to come?
Are we doomed...

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Categories: swim against the tide, analogy, confusion, dark, deep, environment, grave, integrity,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member My Pen
My Pen.

Blue ink spilt on paper
From the pen with witch I write
Words flow from my heart and souls
Golden light
Words of love words of sorrow
About the past
And tomorrow
At times
Words of rage
My pen a weapon
For injustice cruelty...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, poetry, words, write,
Form: Verse
Futile Leaders
In crisis we swim
Hunger for education has made us slim
The beauty of dye was washed by rain
From ignorance to ignored we leave by cain
Solidarity of the heart some withstand the pain

Minors relishing nothing from national...

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Categories: swim against the tide, absence, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Regret
I knelt down at a little creek
To cure my aching thirst.
But before the water touched my cheek
It asked me something first:

“Whose reflection is this here?
Does it have a name?
It has your eyes and look of...

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Categories: swim against the tide, depression, loss, me, river, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Suicide
I smoked a cigarette today and couldn't understand why.
It was a bad habit indulged long forgotten of mine
and then it suddenly struck me. I realized why.
I guess I simply want to die,
but cigarette smoking is...

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Categories: swim against the tide, deathme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Is the Moon Male, Female Or Both
The purpose of gender is balance and procreation.
One moon is enough for us.
Our precious moon 
Has a differing purpose.

The moon reflects the sunlight
During late, dark nights.
It ensures we never find
Ourselves without light.

The moon is known...

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Categories: swim against the tide, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Swimming Against the Tide
Sometimes you have to swim against the tide,

at times you have fly in the face of opinion,

sometimes you have to decide which side,

that you are going to take,

there are moments when taking a stand

is the...

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Categories: swim against the tide, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
What Star
Under what bright star did our fate fall
that we could arise so swiftly, loving,
chasing this sweet path that seemed
to be so distant, so impossible,
that to conceive of it was only folly.

From what fertile garden grew...

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Categories: swim against the tide, grief, lonely, longing, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Eggshells
You say you will, but then you won’t
Say you do and then you don’t
I’m running around in circles all the time
You tell me that you’re feeling low
Saying maybe I should go
Then the next minute you’re...

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Categories: swim against the tide, angst, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
Waves
Waves

Underwater, the chains, tying me to the world, break, 
In the rippling waves, my shivering body does quake.

Underwater, my body as weightless as a ghost lies, 
Where all sound is muted, where salt stings my...

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Categories: swim against the tide, death, sea, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Been To the Dance
The first time was forever
That's what they all said
No more lonely forever
We had our love instead
 
I’ve been to the dance
But won’t miss a chance 
Yeah, I know what I have found
It’ll be better, the...

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Categories: swim against the tide, pollution,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member True To Myself
I've never been one to follow others like sheep
I'm not afraid to stand up for what I believe
Not loved by everyone
but I strive for goodness truth and peace

I fight against injustice
and provide a voice for...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swim against the tide, introspection, me,
Form: Free verse
Tomorrow
I want to swim against the tide.. 
And crawl when I should run.
I want to leap off the tallest mountain.. 
And soar into the sun.

I want to be blinded by the darkness..
And feel the warmth...

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Categories: swim against the tide, anxiety, appreciation, character, dream, emotions, growth, heart,
Form: Rhyme

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