Short Sinking Feeling Poems

White foam on rough seas

The boat was pitched to and fro

Then capsized with ease...

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dark night of soul
fears control mind
extol ego

04-July-2021...

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mother’s milk all gone 
 starved polar bear cubs alone
       faint guttural drones


By
David Kavanagh...

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We walked to the ridge; 
A sinking feeling of sadness, 
The wooden bridge was down,
Absolutely nothing, we could do,
Nodding in agreement we left.

7/12/2024

Photo 5...

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When boats sink to deeper waters depths
Passengers go down gurgling wet
Music sounds become garbled
In fact they disappear
Cold beneath the waves
Rocks caused their fate
No more sun
They go
Glug...

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Know that ego is manifest
If we feel any contraction
That sinking feeling in our chest
Stifling innate bliss elation

09-August-2021

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I put my pen to paper,
Yet my mind echoes nothing.
I hear the stillness of my heart,
no shallow sinking feeling.
All those rambling warring thoughts,
Now none seems to voice out.
My passion or my will,
one must speak....

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With a sinking feeling
I realise
I missed it.
Your voice
Your laughter
Your low soothing tone
Running like melted butter
To the place where I matter.
I can't believe I missed
The pouring
Of Sunlight
Into my day.

Ruby Honeytip
2013...

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I tried to write a poem about you
l couldn’t….tears clouded my eyes
I felt that terrible sorrowful sinking feeling 
I just cried …..

So many years missing you
Still wishing you were here
Time has eased my pain and sorrow
It just never disappears ….....

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What goes up
must come down.
Newton's law applies.
Gravity pulls hard
on this bard.

Anyone high on
illegal drugs,
knows sinking feeling.
Clouds disperse
collected drop.

Politicians plead
for your vote.
Next election, out,
without a doubt.
On last count....

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That sinking feeling, ego borne
Weed it out from the root
Mind-body transient garment worn
Love throbs do pain transmute

Stagnation nemesis
Such is our prognosis
Reclaim bliss consciousness 

Our heart needs healing
That sinking feeling

05-October-2021
Quietus ...

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That sinking feeling of despair
Surely not ours to keep
Switch frequency and with love pair
Bliss the reward we reap

Fuel not ego unsound 
Know we are free, not bound
With each breath, new joy’s found

Debilitating
That sinking feeling

10-February-2022
Quietus ...

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The sinking feeling falls not upon my head
it has left not to return I dread
a drought has come for sweat soft slumbers touch
I can only lye awake in my bed   
with my minds eye unfed 
they will not return I know without doubt
It is without hope I walk about
I pass out 
not rested I return 
it is to only dream that I yearn...

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It has taken me so long
To finally rid you out my system
It took violent storms and a whirlpool of emotions
To get me out of the dark hole i was so sunken into
Time felt endless and dreadful
i can now look up at the sky and feel the sun’s warm kisses and the air blowing through my hair
-Hearing your name no longer brings a sinking feeling to my stomach...

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What will be is what will be...
Always flying high above the trees..
Better then lying on a bed of deceit..
Never really landing but I still can see..
What will be is what will be...
A sinking feeling from the dreamer in me...
Too many doors that never had a key...
I'm breathing in desires from a window in me.....
And that's how life is seen through me....
Because what will be is what will be.......

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My heart hurts
I feel this sinking feeling
Like I can’t go on
I have this sometimes randomly
When I have a stony heart
It hurts to talk
I can’t talk
I feel so down
It is so random
I can’t explain it
I hate having a stony heart
Your negative comments don’t help
I feel this darkness in my soul
Whenever I see the night 
I feel this sinking feeling
I have felt it all my life
Unexplained...

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everything just blurs together
the colors fade away 
levaing only black and white
words mean so little 
i feel im falling through myself 
i can feel every break in my self
i feel so alone lost and used up
dried without a line to hang onto
i feel that heavy sinking feeling all over again
i cant even feel the right feeling to feel 
all i know is im a prisoner
and i cry for the death of my heart...

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Water;

Everywhere, yet

barely there.

I thought I was going to fall

into—

through—

this cold emptiness.

Submerged,

suffocated

and no one would notice.

So I clung on 

to the edge of the pool.

My mother told me to let go,

I told me to let go.

Sinking,

a sinking feeling,

suspended in a lonely place,

bounded by these fragile walls so

easily crossed over.

My vision went blurry,

all I could see was my fingers

still clinging on....

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Today i give up 
all my worries all my desires
i give up on woman that loves me for who i am
i give up on long walks in the park 
i give up on love between two cuddling in the dark

i give up on my dreams and goals
i give in to the sinking feeling of the hole
i give up my aspirations 
maybe my unborn will be gratefull

that his dad is not a failure
i give up on achieving i give up on believing
i am defeated by my dread

i am defeated in my head...

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Perched up on the shelf
Watching me as I go by
Knowing that I can't resist
Your chocolate sugar high 

Your triangular packaging
Triggers a pavlovian response
An uncontrollable craving
An undeniable want 

Tearing off your paper foil
I'm torn with indecision
Knowing that the truth is 
You've absolutely no nutrition 

Too bad, the point is moot... 
I gulp down a hefty chunk 
And with a sinking feeling
Know my diet plans have sunk...

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I've awoken again;
Feeling it like the last time,
This sinking feeling;
Like I've gone somewhere,
Been with someone;
And now they're gone,
I'm back from there;
I do not know,
Feels like I was reaching;
Out to something,
And it was for a moment;
Within my grasp,
Maybe I held her close;
Within my arms,
Felt her soul;
I can't shake this,
The feelings won't go;
Away lingering,
Like a foggy mist;
I want to go back,
Resume this sleep;
Embrace the feeling......

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No one can feel what I feel inside
I’m missing you and cannot hide
When will I see the sun that shines? 
When can I say that you are mine?
My stomach aches, but I’m not ill
My heart is racing, but there is no thrill
My legs go weak and I don’t know why
I’m missing you and I’m going to cry
The thought of you that makes me grin
That sinking feeling that comes within
I’m falling fast in that pit below
I’m missing you and you don’t know

                    Steve Crabtree...

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That lonely sinking feeling is gone, I’m no longer lost, you found me, and now I pick up my cross, and I follow you, to the ends of the earth, through the beautiful landscapes, and harsh deserts, I know I can handle anything since you’ve came in, the blood of the lamb has washed away my sins, I’m cleansed, born again, death is no longer the end, through you I have eternal life, by your side, a gift I cannot hide, so I ask you to work through me so others can be brought into your light....

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A hole so deep I cannot see 
past the bottles around my feet
pop another, you'll be fine
the pain will fade in due time. 

Pop, one, two, or three
the hole grows  
that sinking feeling
as eyes roll back
and body goes limp
taking you deeper
tightening its grip.

It has you now
It drags you down
that hole you made
too fill your pain.

In the end
You will be broken
the hole so deep 
words miss spoken
lashing out at
all you love
Lost in thought 
Rule by the drug.
...

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Another poster of a child holding her lost pet.
When I see them, man, the sinking feeling that I get.
Why can't pets just learn to stay at home?
Why are they always dying to go roam?
I haven't seen or heard of one happy ending yet.




Bonus "lost pet" poem

This is not why I did love you ~
and learned to think the whole world of you ~
just so you could sneak out the back door ~
never to be seen anymore ~
except in visions ~ with a coyote glowering down from above you....

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