Short Drowning Poems

Short Drowning Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Drowning by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Drowning by length and keyword.


Sadness Swallows Me

Sadness swallows me
Darkness follows me
Light reflects me
People dissect me
Through my emotions
Drowning in the ocean
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Triggered Jealousy

Triggered Jealousy 

green eyes storms flares hot 
ruptured crust, hot lava, ash
drowning drifting calm


9/10/2015
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

An Act of Ultimate Sacrifice

my grandpa was saved
from drowning in a lake by
boy who could not swim

9.10.18
Contest: Son of a Senryu
A true story
© Jesse Rowe  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member So Why Are You Frowning

Help me, I'm drowning
        so why are you frowning

      Put a smile on your face
        frown's gone, not a trace
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Some Things You Can't Explain

he reached out to me
threw me a buoy
and i let it bounce off me
knowing i was drowning



AP: Honorable Mention 2022


Premium Member Omniscience

As you think deeper,
You end up drowning in thought.
If you can just see
Everything is as it is,
As all gods intended it.
Form: Tanka

Me

Drowning in a body of oxygen

And yet I can't breathe

Drowning in an ocean of happy

A happy I don't know how to feel.

Maid of the Myth

He knew her well in his youth.
She was refined, he uncouth.
Maiden so fair
now see her there
drowning in his gin/vermouth
Form: Limerick

Guess Who-

Guess Who…
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Rolling waves of tears
Drowning with problems and fears.
Guess who saves the day.
Form: Haiku

Golden Artwork

With the sun drowning;
into the depth of His clouds 
The wind continued;
to gust the only beauty;
and true colors of nature
Form: Tanka

Somber Existence

Drowning in mad lies
The only thing left to do;
is cry out and cue;
For tomorrow is the same 
Praying I would still be sane
Form: Tanka

Tidal Wave

Your love is like a tidal wave
Drowning me 
Too mighty to escape
It overpowers me
Cannot run from you
Cannot avoid your wrath

Down By the Religion

Drowning is something you can live with. Make sure your baptism is deeper … Deeper than a simple shallow promise of eternal light.
© Chris Conn  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Death by drowning

Thrust of lust, in form of dust,
spawns storm of dark deeds unjust
and greed we breed, drags soul down
in fears, where we drown.
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member Agony

Feeling like I live
Inside bubble of sorrow.
Drowning in my mind.
All these bad dreams consume me.
Nothing at all what it seems.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Open the flood gates

I wish I could cry.
Let my feelings out and be gone.
I'm drowning in my silence.



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 2nd place 2026
Form: Other

Patience Ebb

Bubbling torrent 
foams and spits at the future 
verbal battery

drowning in a sea of words
would you please, please just shut up!
Form: Tanka

Pearls and Swine

Snuffling for truffles
Scenting morsels of delight
Delirious swine

Drowning in the oyster beds
Drunk on mysterious wine

by Gail
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Easy For Me To Say

Why not make the most of life, son?
    What have you got to lose

  Easy to say, here in my rocker
    Drowning my sorrows in booze
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Rescue Me Baby

Rescue Me Baby

                                   I am Falling and Drowning

                                        Rescue Me Baby
Form: Haiku

Cup of Cereal

I splash uncontrollably in a milky way
Paddle away my drowning fate-- cup me out of demise
I bump body on bowl spoon, soaked like cereal
Form: Haiku

Dying

Controlled to extremes
Unable to move
Without you leering at me
I slowly starve of reality
Of air
Suffocating
Drowning
'Me' 
Dies

Premium Member Voracious Eater

Voracious eater
Courageously devours
Large quantities of
Oysters and snails
Drowning Them
Making no big deal of
His Edacious Manner

Premium Member Drowning In Love

euphoric in chlorinated water
a splash
grandma has arrived
small ducks
chatter 
             and cling
battle for hugs

7/29/2018

Premium Member Potty Time

Potty training a toddler is tough 
Takes patience and lots of love
And on a whim
Says he can’t swim
Fears falling in drowning butt up
Form: Limerick

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