Short Thrashing Poems

thrashing cold water
a fish leaps…
into the warm sun...

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surface explosion
thrashing, total exhaustion
returned before harm...

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The waves are thrashing
beyond gray is a rainbow
the summer is gold....

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rough summer ocean
waves thrashing cobalt and white
Too early for this...

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Back and forth she rolls
getting caught up in covers
loud thrashing begins...

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Mouth Opened wide
Head thrashing from side to side
The Lion’s Roars echoed...

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   Mom's tongue-lashing ~

     far more potent than fistic thrashing 
...

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storm clouds billowing

wind thrashing wild abandon

    secure in your love...

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Hurricanes

Rain never ceasing
Wind boldly thrashing; objects fly
Path of destruction...

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Giant gator grabbing
Convulsing, chunks crashing
twisting, twirling, thrashing
muskrat mammal munched....

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Did you know?
Life comes at you like a sword
Slashing, Crashing, Thrashing, Slice
Heads t'wards you without a word....

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Thrashing fish?
No death wish!

Armor of God
Lightning rod

Reason for joy?
Satan can't destroy!
...

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The thunder echos 
thrashing around with my thoughts
walking in the rain 
our electricity flows
the wind breathes you into me....

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Alligator scouts still pond,
unobserved his stealth movements
until thrashing body leaps,
sharp teeth tearing unexpecting prey

March 2, 2022...

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Whistling winds woo 
through thrashing twigs and shrubs.
Hitting, hollering, soon hushing
spring be springing sweet soundly winds
blowing in the deep dark of distant forests....

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    Like the waves of a storm-swept gray sea
       breakers rushing furiously toward me

    Thrashing recollections of what once was
       memories that will nevermore be
...

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Enveloped in black
Darkness of a living death
The black shroud tightens
Heightened frenzy of thrashing
Pinned in the arms of Black Knight

For Andrea's Color Tanka Contest
May 14, 2013...

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Santa's thrashing around in acute pain
  No gifts due to bottlenecked supply chain
     What was Santa to do
     To achieve a breakthrough
  He'd snap up packets of Chinese Chow Mein...

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a remote forest,

its pond motionless, moonlit;

a sudden cloud of Mayflies

sweeps down across the water:

sudden, ghostly koi feeding

w/ thrashing and leaping,

only to vanish in time....

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                                           Georgia Brown Thrasher
                                          Thrashing through leaves
                                            Attack of Mocking Bird...

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Grey 
          far and wide;
     Many distinct shades,
the same as the thrashing sea;
                Blue
swirls from warm to a harsh chill 
       above and below;
         lush sea foam
                 hue....

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Icy darkness tightens its embrace.
Flailing, thrashing, clawing, waning;
implacable liquid death
threatens to overwhelm.
Grasped by unseen hands;
propelled upwards.
Surface breached!
Sweet, sweet
air!...

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My dog went for a pee, came back wearing a big smile
Some kids had painted him, now he looks like a crocodile 
Those neighbourhood kids
Need a bonk on their lids
Or a thrashing to make their hoohas misfire!!!...

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Listen to poem:

Your absence hurts me,
Like a persistent toothache
Or a pair of too-tight shoes.
But, worse, your hard face,
When finally we meet,
Leaves me panicked, gasping:
A doomed and thrashing swimmer,
Drowning in your indifference....

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THE CRIPPLED

Walking toward foreshore
I saw the devil seated on a fence
Fishing
Next day I heard he got a thrashing
It was intense
Blood trickled from his core
He would fish no more
Baby and Mommy shark were out to score.

*...

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