Short Drainage Poems

Dark alley, deadly calm
Flashes of steel
'Thud'..death whispered
Silhouette melted in the night
Blood zigzagging
Dragging life to the drainage...

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Cut Flowers
					
The scent of cut flowers arose,
Then cool water tickled her toes,
She turned with a start,
To the flower cart,
And reconnected the drainage hose....

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Repugnant Rich worked in a drainage ditch
Smelling of sewer water, he developed a twitch
Detestable conditions for a graduate of M.U.
But he made a fortune and got off at two....

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I  planted hope
by the bathroom window
last year
yellow soundless  bells
were doomed to fail 
with no 
drainage holes 
they drowned
in rustic pots
leaving the  jasmine
to claim their sun...

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Lucille found a sport without a single hitch
A two-wheeler was definitely her niche
Until she lost her balance
Racing a scooter challenge
And landed in a water-filled drainage ditch. 

Written July 14, 2022...

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Never have I seen trouble as deep as 
The catastrophe in Tamaulipas.
I chanced on a 6-kilometer crack -
A lot of information to unpack.
If you fall into the crack, it seems,
You'll be in China or the Philippines.
I tell you straight, put it on the level -
It is either drainage or the devil....

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this passage contains coverage 
for the purpose of survival
where to turn next is not known

this sewer contains drainage 
for the purpose of pure release
what to burn next is not yet determined

this heart contains usage
for the purpose of nothing
how to fix what is left is still pending...

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One day, one of our daily papers carried a story about a teenage girl who 
dumped a baby;after carrying the baby for nine months in her womb.
And nowadays,it is common for teenagers to throw their babies in pit latrines,
 drainage,and rubbish sites;
Why acting in such a manner when barren women are cying for babies and 
 orphanages are around us?...

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Drainage cracks and fingers of
eroding souls.

Long dim hotel stairwells
are sarcastic chasms to the flood,
like artifacts of insanity
and poet's blood.

We dare to run down as
prisoners on parole,
humming parodies of parables
and dying at sea.

Our graves are laid in the
phantom fathom estuaries
and reciprocal tunnels
of our beginnings....

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Ground seepage
A small start mere drainage
Grows to a mighty river rushing
Flowing some three-hundred-fourty-four miles a rushing
From Atlanta to the Gulf beauty accenting
Through ragged Spewell Bluff it slithers
Filled with  fresh rain water
Flint River   

Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Contest: Choose Your Favorite Body Of Water
Written: June 12, 2014...

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Fresh pressed words like
leaving lovers if they
never come back
they were never yours

drainage pipes leak your
lucky stars down until
they reach the sea
now horizon bound

old man on an island
picks them up and reads
the lines you lost and
takes them for his own

carefully count the lines you
write for you never know
that if you tumble or fall
you could lose them all...

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Round round tap tap clap clap clap onwards chant. Tyrannical faith, get drenched in flow, outpour downpour core directed circular drainage.
 
Apex. Tidal. Damper. Tamper. Mystify yet unify and gain strength. Adhere to gods of old ancient wisdom healing the new.. Glow times magnification . amplified ambience blue blue bandage style. Whilst the small blue bird sings a hppy tune.
 
NAVAL. NAUTICAL. NEED. NURTURE. NUT. NEEM....

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Rain, rain, don't go away
Do not come again another day
The land is parched,
Scorched, cracked... And
Dry
We have waited for this day
We have waited for Heaven's torrents
To make the earth
Wet
Flow flow flow... Run, let it run run run
Let the drainage be filled with
Blood
Let the earth bring forth
Fruits for nourishment
Soak the ground with
Water
Wash away bitterness, hatred and strife
And let it begin - a new life....

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Into harsh terrain they ventured,
From drainage to a marsh.
Healthy brothers suddenly died,
By an unknown deed.

Saints went to hell,
For the land disliked them.
Desperate for what to tell guardians,
Anger was the seed that was planted,
Roots began to grow,
Where provoking and poking were the fruit it bore.

Those who had never spoken ill,
Now found life to be hard.
But walls have ears,
They hear all conspiracies whispered....

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The sun is out with its full force
And the hot wind carrying dust
Beats us with grains of sand
Grains of sand and no mercy

They have predicted an El-nino rains
Good child my learned theologian claims
Heavy torrents claims the meteorogian
Taking cue they are clearing the drainage

Be it sunny or rainy.. wind or torrents
I remain calm with an inner peace
Its called knowing that it shall be well
It shall be well with my soul.. shalom...

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Clouds of gray encompass the day
Crepe Myrtle blooms abound
Bright Rudbeckia only sun                       (Leaving home
Petunia's purple crown

Hilltop view of Potato Creek
Also distant mountains
Those being restless man's daydreams      (Hilltop at Potato Creek
Looking for a fountain  

Curvy the road as climb those hills
Going up going down
Drainage assured water that flows             (Mountains to Flint River
To river and ocean fill ...

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Keep holding my arm, don't let go
Lets pin our story here and there, on the wall

Let's keep the laughter going, our immunity 
No cough, no noise, no drainage, just unity

Let's keep the phone lines open, incase we need some soup
Let's write in different colors, on different colors to tune the tone

Let's keep the makeup light, at times we need flight 
The alarms should only flirt, to keep it right


*Inspired by post-it notes & by him:-)*...

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Drainage lines dissect river catchments
Carved by water flowing down to sea
Recycling raindrops sucked from ocean
Carried in puffs of clouds to highlands
To fall as rain feeding river flows
Sustaining life that thrives in currents
In rapids, trickles, waterfalls, swirls.
Life adapted to flow, stir and surge
That replenishes oxygen, food
In drips, squirts, spurts, splash, currents and flows.
Pulsing flow of rivers down drainage
Mirrors our blood flow circulation....

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