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Sarasota Poems - Poems about Sarasota

If You Leave Me
...If you leave me The clouds will split open like coconuts Acid milk will pour over your cities Lightning will flash, skinny like my fingers I will pry through the sky to reach you I will travel t......

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Categories: sarasota, addiction, desire, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Domestic violence recovery
...Why do evil exist why do people expose domestic violence victims to their abusers to cause harm shame to relive terrible pains I will never understand how we seek shelter hide like spies an yet there......

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Categories: sarasota, allah,
Form: Musaddas



Morning Reading
...Reading fridge magnets; surprised how interesting, the world is when stamped into rubber decals. Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest. Watching a colorful rolling diorama, pictographs tumbling over......

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Categories: sarasota, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Murderers
...I didn't know him as a serial not exactly at least not at first even though I'd overheard the plotting of arson from a dim lit restroom searching for tissue only to find several guns rifles gr......

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Categories: sarasota, allah, chicago, literature, peace,
Form: Dramatic Verse
September Moorings
...Slips marked and mapped across the intercoastal waterways a scanning breached out of high low tidal waves, silent, still, obscure, and not well hidden liveaboards hold steady isolated sheltered ......

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Categories: sarasota, analogy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jerk's Quirk
...There once was a jerk from Sarasota Who fondled a nice girl named Dakota She sued him for cause To control his paws To avoid time, he fled in a Toyota. written July 26, 2021......

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Categories: sarasota, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Exploring Amberjack
...Deep beneath the emerald-green water Off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, Five young divers and an experienced spotter Searched for the so-called blue hole “Amberjack.” We skirted the edges down ......

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Categories: sarasota, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Mom
...Feathered Brazilian brown hair with eyes that match. Red lips,Skinny brows with mascara thick on each lash. Skin tone honey roasted cashew. Body scarred from self harm and all she had been through......

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Categories: sarasota, anger, care, dark, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
I Almost
...I almost went to Florida To visit with my aunt Until the virus landed And my plans it did supplant. I almost got a chance to see A Sarasota treat. The Ringling exhibition Would have made the......

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Categories: sarasota, me,
Form: Rhyme
Five Elemental Monoku
...I. BISMUTH [83] rainbow-sheened cubist castles -- silver-pink of hue II. IODINE [53] gunmetal grey crystals sublime -- and billow purple III GALLIUM [31] metallic grey and stiff......

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Categories: sarasota, nature, science,
Form: Monoku
Morning Reading
...Reading my fridge magnets, I’m surprised how interesting the world is when stamped into rubber decals. Rome, Ankara, both Buda and Pest. I watch an oscilloscope between my ears, the spikes ar......

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Categories: sarasota, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fitness Days
...Beautiful days with our parents We lived at the beautiful house with our relatives. Swimming was a favorite hobby, Our parents had taught us all to swim. We would go to the fitness institute,......

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Categories: sarasota, appreciation, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse
Limetree New Years
...The sandy beach awaited the celebration, We were with relatives and friends. We had a lovely dinner together, After dinner we went out on the porch facing the beach. I had collected shells wh......

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Categories: sarasota, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Sarasota Memories
...The beautiful St. Armands, Sarasota, Florida, A holiday with my children Kirk and Erik and my parents. The timeshare at the beach, Owned by Dr. Erika and Dr. Wolf. Condominium was exquisitely......

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Categories: sarasota, appreciation, beach, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Sandy Beach
...When on vacation with my children and parents, We had a beautiful timeshare where we lived. There was a beautiful sandy beach in front of the condominium, You could walk for miles and collect be......

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Categories: sarasota, beach, beautiful, blessing, father,
Form: Free verse

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