Short Floodgates Poems

Music are floodgates
That bars you in the sideways
Tear flows and chest drums....

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~ with intimacy, floodgates of vulnerability open wide ~


Date written: 11/06/2022...

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a weeping heaven
frees floodgates of diamond tears
not sad but happy


Date written: 08/22/2019...

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child gets a puppy
the floodgates of happy tears
trickling down her cheeks


Date written: 05/08/2019...

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tear drop mountain
 
weeps floodgates cusps water fall -

lizard licks sun rays


11th November 2020...

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Not distracted by fame or success,
the floodgates sprung open
—truth running clear

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)...

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open sesame
the floodgates of compassion
rages and runs deep


Date written and posted: 07/26/2018...

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Bitter is the wind this night 
which tosses up the ocean tide
see how it opens up the floodgates 


8/ 17/ 2013  7:15pm...

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Eyes’ floodgates pour free
Plunging gagging still rising
Both nostrils enflamed

By Robb A. Kopp
All Rights Reserved © MMX...

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The floodgates are open,
   the waters rush forth

New words have been spoken,
— their meaning on course

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)...

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to love is to
be vulnerable;
no wonder i am
made of steel

to love is to 
open the
floodgates;
i am a desert
while you are a 
canal

too many metaphors;
not enough confessions...

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well aimed words mean what they say ~ but shot from the hip an outburst of spray 


Pick-A-Title, Vol 30 - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh
#2 (open the floodgates)
How many syllables (17)
18/05/2022...

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How can I explain
Who would ever understand
The firestorm raging in my brain
The floodgates have been opened
So much desert to cover
The barren years of sorrow
Lone salvation clad in armor 
No life if there is no tomorrow...

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Sk8ing is gr8. 
It releases all the hate you may have contained.

Open the floodgates.
Stride over the grate and feel once again elevated.

It makes any woman ovulate. 
Just pump and grind, and you've a guaranteed mate....

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Heat grows
Frustration shows
Temper glows
Inhibitions go

Gun unlocks
Trigger cocks
Legislative gridlock
Future shock

God waits
Man hates
Tempts fate
Opens floodgates

Man sins
Murder grins
Jungle din
Death wins...

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Bliss bursts
forth in fullness,
felt as spasms of delight,
ever present humming current
commencing the flow of soma nectar,
transmuting us as living light,
here and now in this form;
floodgates open,
bliss bursts!

26-February-2022...

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The sun bursts through my window
flooding my world my universe.
I'm energized to start my day.
My mind on overdrive
overflows with creativity,
ideas cascade i wish i could keep up

Open those floodgates,
let’s see what happens ~



Posted on April 25, 2025...

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I wish my eyes would open up its arms,
And let the necessary tears fall,
Like due drops of rain to wash away,
The state of emptiness that I feel –
So, fill my beating heart like a yard glass;
May the limits of my soul,
Be not found as broken, though wholly at peace –...

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           open the floodgates
 of hurt; just let your wound bleed
      so I'll be the healing balm
      soothing away the hurting

        yes, hold nothing back.
      permit all your emotions;
    rivulets of tears you'd shed
      i promise to wipe away.
...

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Floodgates flow with poets pain
reading them is such a strain
it makes one want to find a cure
how much can their hearts endure?
    yet to know they have a place
to say it all and bare their face
if they but knew how much God cares
they'd speak their poems in their  prayers....

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And the dike would not hold the tears, ta-da.
So the ink, it runs down, my face, Papa!

And the clouds, oh they burst, with such mad force,
For the lightning does hail from Dad, of course!

It’s the future man feared would be so grim,
and the river does swerve and chases him.

1/8/2018...

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A floodgate

Is opened in the

Meanderings of

Wholeness

As THIS gains

Resonance..

THIS excludes

No story..and all

Stories can expand

Racing away as

The story of the

Expanding universe..

Words hang together

Somehow and can

Seem as infinity

Lives in each

Story:

THIS......

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Listen to poem:

and when i finally put pen to paper
the words at first would not flow
a hush of silence palpable
thick and heavy lingering
hanging there with nowhere to go
then one by one the words came
as floodgates opened
an outburst from the heart
that demanded to be heard



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on December 27, 2022...

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far from home
and without shelter
thunderous and malefic
dark clouds roll in
floodgates open
dropping their load
vengeful sleet
torrential rain
the weight of heavens
upon the world
unleash its fury
in all its glory
the wrath of Jupiter



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on August 11, 2019...

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rusty old keys
play through yellow melancholic reflections
                       as dusk arrives

             forgotten nostalgic rhythms
       open floodgates of hopeful notes
                     on dejected nights

May 9, 2020
Visual 1
For FLOW WITH THE COLLOM LUNE Poetry Contest
Sponsored By: nette onclaud
Winner: Fifth Place...

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