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Paddled Poems - Poems about Paddled

NOCTURNAL NATURE

...Pensively promended I, as impetuous as a poet
To accumulate few jocund inkling on dusk

For sure, not as a bard
But,as a novice to nature

Stalked I, bare-footed anigh lake
Jabbed some spines ...
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Categories: paddled, nature,
Form: Free verse

Surreal cartwheel sublime PANTomime time

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No channel skipping ..no flannel...it was so gripping…hearts melt…Pant's ripping svelte pelt and belt..stripping and whipping..the fab never drab Rishab lab..was it real..felt like I was tripping… ...
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Categories: paddled, sports,
Form: Free verse



Palatable Unpalatability

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Are my thoughts too loud,
Does the breeze of my breath graze your skin in the heat of summer?
And my hands cling too tightly that your palms sweat,
And you count the seconds until I notice?
D...
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Categories: paddled, discrimination, imagery, introspection, war,
Form: Free verse

National Poetry Month

...Ghost, River, Shiver, Gaze, Wicked, Cold


Someone stood by the river,
I was glad I wasn’t going to be the only one,
I was to come with my grandfather,
But he had been unwell.

I greeted the ...
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Categories: paddled, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Blue Jade

...Shivering shimmers of scars passed out of my scarlet, scarred past. My ginger demons engulfed the fermented pain as I watched my regal orchid—the fussiest, sacred damsel who jitterbugs as an exiled s...
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Categories: paddled, addiction, appreciation, art, blue,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGNRT DAY 33 NORTH BAY AND PARADISE

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Today in North Bay, Ontario we decided to to slow down…to sit around… uncontested
to take it easy and pace ourselves…as our friend Chandra has suggested

We wonder if she was reminding us to pau...
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Categories: paddled, paradise, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOver the River

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Over the wide stretch of water flowing along,
In a small boat the lovers made their way.
Before them the river hurtled headlong.

Leaving behind the sullen shores, all their cares,
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Categories: paddled, adventure, journey, life,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberRunning with Rex

...Running with Rex

I rowed a boat into a lake, to clear my head from feelling addled.
I forgot my big brown dog Rex, but after me he paddled.
A loyal shadow in the water, but my eyes just looked a...
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Categories: paddled, death of a friend,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberThe Sound of Silence

...This scribble has nothing to do with the famous song of Simon and Garfunkel.  It's just a story I invented. 

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I bought a cottage in the middle...
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Categories: paddled, baby, love, silence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRum N Raisin 9 - France Or Bust

...Raisin gave the globe a tap to make it slowly spin
“Rum,” she said, “it’s quite a big wide world we’re living in.”
Rum looked up from lapping milk and wiped some from his face,
“Use your nose to s...
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Categories: paddled, adventure, animal, cat,
Form: Narrative

Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor

...Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?

Ah... methinks legal tender 
could be a boon to help me bolster 
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire...
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Categories: paddled, 8th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse

Flowing Downstream Without Levees Or Windbreaks

...some poems ask to be naked
they have no use at all
for punctuation
not even for an en dash 
an em dash nor hyphen

they play with a flowing  grammar
that must be read like water
or paddled th...
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Categories: paddled, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Wisdom Download

...Quote: You are not responsible for the blindfolders on others child,  
but you will be held accountable for the many times you failed
to show them sight, through your own wisdom and expe...
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Categories: paddled, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse

Have You Ever

...Have you ever climbed a tree?
Paddled rapids? Tamed a flea?
Have you touched a chimpanzee?
At one, I’ve been successful.

Have you dived into a lake?
Baked a cake or held a snake?
Have you use...
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Categories: paddled, life,
Form: Rhyme

The Widow In Her Cabin, Part I

...It was back about 1803,
there stood a small cabin near to the sea,
where a widow lived by the name of Joanne,
who could not grieve for the death of her man,
since six years back he’d vanished com...
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Categories: paddled, desire, family, heartbreak, history,
Form: Epic

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