Short Test The Water Poems

Never test the water with BOTH feet
To feel the temperature or if it's too deep
One foot at a time
For testing the brine
If it's over your head, bad words you'll bleep...

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Never test the water with BOTH your feet
To determine the temperature or if it's deep
One pinky at a time
For testing the brine
It's over my head, words I screamed I had to bleep


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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It's now time for us
to test the water;
see what else is out
there that has something
better to offer.

It is now time
for us to be
separated
but still best friends.

For us to
find how deep
each other's

love runs
in the

heart....

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Life

I ask to dive deep 
for what purpose would it serve 
to go the breadth in the swallow end 

I ask to be submerged 
not to test the water with my toes
not to splash when it’s at my ankles 
not to be content with it at my waist
or stay safe with it at my shoulders
but to be engulfed, caught up, and sweep away with joy 

I ask to drown in life...

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A Rainy Walk

  Me and Bertie's off for a walk,, he isn't very keen,
  He's worried he may fall in a puddle where depths are quite unseen
   But Mum will be very careful and test the water first. 
  Oh he loves his Mum so very much his heart is fit to burst. 
  But as she's only 5' naught, so she's got to take great care 
  Cos if a puddle swallows her up too, neither of them will be there....

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Watching people walk on the street.
Tells so much about who they are.
The hurried with their great strides.
Those shifty eyed and guilty shuffles.
The high noses with stuffy little steps.
Waitresses with their swinging hips.
The care full who first test the water.
But crowds will part like the dead sea.
For one with the Italian shoe swagger!


date:9/1/2019
contest: swagger
sponsor: Line Gautier...

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You were such a good dream.
But then you became a reality.
The reality became comfortless.
So I did the best I could.
Because I never wanted to break your heart.
But now you have broken mine.
I miss the smiles that I could attract from you.
And what about those conversations we had.
Your holding my feelings against me,
It's an unexpected act of you.
I did what I could to satisfy our cravings,
Apologies for not being able to test the water
Without breaking your heart.
Feb, 2008...

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