Short Troughs Poems

Sparkling a bright blue.
As it crests in and troughs out.
The ocean does dazzle....

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deep circular scars…
cold dark troughs between sandbars
sharks larger than cars...

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Sweet and happy it is...
Crests and troughs like a sine wave,
Bitter and painful it is....

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Life events unfold in as is ordained ~ 
We flow through crests and troughs, pure and unstained

16-February-2023...

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If we remember to look at horizon and sky
The Universe draws us higher, whispers a reply
We all are stardust yet somehow so earthy
Humans eschew solid troughs, for color & crest (the showy)...

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for any second of her happiness
yeah Shakespeare up here
Take this
What tea is the tee in the tea hee
i twirled a twine of twisted tendril
troughs of would trace tree face nots and knots to be
wood i notice...

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I was listening to electronic music,
And i could see peaks and troughs of the beats,
With my mind hand i reached out and caught it,
A real live wire,
Then i recoiled in shock,
An electric bite from the thousand year snake....

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I ought to wave at a wave
Not the third or fourth Covid wave
But that about which a surfer might rave
A wave is one of a set
Molecules of water ripples, more ripples yet
Until a wave is but 
Part of a series
Of waves of crests
and troughs...

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WINTER LOVE

You were a ghost among brown leaves;
I followed you
through troughs driven by the wind– 
you were a ghost,
and as you passed, the flowers
died by the roadside, the willows ceased,
and the cranes in the brake
cried once and rose....

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Power is an intoxicating spice
Oily politicians line the public troughs with it
Wealthy corporations dress it up in lofty mission statements
Erotic mistresses ooze it to extract favors from lovers
Reformers inevitably glom onto it to achieve dubious ends...

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Sails upon my planet
A ship of cooling granite
Across the depths of time and space
Barely do I leave a trace

White caps and troughs erase my wake
Time will heal my neighbors ache 
I leave no crease upon earth’s shoal
Sails affixed to my soul

11/11/2019...

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waves as tall as a building
with troughs as deep as a lake
many sail in this wild world
the atlantic waits






Natural Dodoitsu Free Poetry Contest 

Penned by Seren Roberts    on 3rd December 2012






Natural Dodoitsu Free Poetry Contest Details

Penned by Seren Roberts
Dated 3rd December 2012...

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" BREATH GOLD " 

There  were  the  crests ,
There  were  the  troughs ,
With  every  breathe  that  grows .
Your  matter  as  attire ,
Concatenate  the  souls  on  fire .
For  now  and  forever .
To  just  breath  gold ,
And  let  hold . 

S•R•
@thatoneshe_...

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Among such smog-soaked folk
As curdle-coil in cloud-spun smoke

Along the grain-cut naves
Which, God-heavy, lie stiff as staves

On sad-strung ouds, yet creep
In concrete-crumbled static sleep

Over cambered cities.
Whose peaks and troughs ebb with pities;

A ring-road tidal flow
With human crest now sunk below......

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Sands streaming through my identity
Who I was and what’s to come
     The pinnacle and troughs spinning 
Invisible in speeds slow and fast
     Above trials now and forgotten

     Existence cycles with imagination
Ever dispersing thinly
     As the midnight sands crest and fall
The wind tolling flat chimes
     Death reads the last stanza...

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Many miles traveled
Many lessons learned
Many thing unraveled
Many times, burned

Patching up pain
Healing day by day
Lies leave a stain
I go on my way

Through troughs so narrow
I can barely fit
So, I listen to the sparrow
As I watch it flit 

Lack of reason
Swirls with a cyclone
In winds of the season
I stand alone

Heidi Sands

11/5/17...

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THE SPRINKLER  

Moving hoses
           Of flowing,
                   Flowering,
                             Movement.
Running in rills to troughs of sand,
Pressing passages through the stones.
Pools well with
         gurgles
                  splashes,
Thundering falls with mist skirts
            of pearls strung
                     on summer breezes....

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say you are master
of what became disaster
problems with plaster

Small piece fell from corner
making me become mourner
need plaster adorner

Pine straw in eaves troughs 

water on my deck
so oh well and what the heck
caused wreck on my deck

ite in wreck

plaster fell from ceiling
which really sent me reeling
never appealing 

what was revealing
my fanatical feeling
from me were stealing...

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The gulls are low, not skimming,
but surfing spray
just above
the rise and fall of crests.

Beaks scythe and catch
tracking troughs.
They seek the in-between fish
thrown
between tumbling parapets
of ocean.

Trawling gullets
scoop,
gulp the spew.

Swigging necks
do not glance back
but plow circles of light
upon the water,

then they dive upwards
into
the wings of the wind....

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The Indian Ocean is mean and deep
And careless sailing often death doth reap
It’s wild and vast a lonesome place to be
Needing to ply these waters has no glee
Angry relentless waves tall meters high
And troughs below seem to hide sails from sky
There’s no release from swirling spay and foam
Steersman needs lion’s heart to bring us home
Course is set by compass, not by sextant
Person who sent us here has a hellish bent....

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Rhythm’s a trick of deft poets,
     who know the pulses of their feet
give lines their tempo. And so it’s
     like a poem’s pulsating heartbeat;
it’s hypnotic (and you know it’s
     metric),—so drink in its potent beat!

When one hears a song’s rich measure
     (the crests and troughs of its music,
the ebb and flow of its leisure),
     it tunes like a score symphonic, 
an orchestra of paced pleasure  
     with a sound and style that’s epic!...

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the past recedes and what
was once a tsunami
of energy, exaltation and intent
or a depression of sadness and despair
play out into waves and troughs
of remembrance,
to ripples of recognition,
to a becalmed sea.
So too,
your resolve to remember always,
that awesome victory,
or deathly loss,
dampens down,
to the day you find that
you haven't thought of it
for years,
and now the details are
caricatures and cartoons that
you feel guilty and petty
for even mentioning....

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To steal Moon's glow in troughs beneath my feet
as earth recedes and clouds embrace my flight;
a weightlessness and joy become my meat
and angels reach to set the stars alight.

Up here in space one feels
a brother to the wind,
and rides his coattails high
beyond the brightest star.

I rise to sit alone in God's deep lap
and reach to gather stars as I pass by.
I long to plant a kiss on Moon's stiff brow;
to steal Moon's glow in troughs beneath my feet....

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Global comfort risk adverse hesitant
         Company pauses before launching investment
         Robot arm responsive reset to turbo
         Fills tanks in fish farm where millions will grow


         Oyster opens to slime slicked pearl 
         Brave imbiber swallows storm sky striate urchin
         Rocked on troughs, crest of ocean
         Covers dubious with smooth smile caviar lotion 





            Second of February
                Source Funds...

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Oh ocean of that long-gone embryo
Careening stormy erratic, to pacific
Ever sculpting in navy-wavy trance
Atop your peaks diamond ambrosia
Never-never dreams, you've grown ~

Troughs, they stripped fear’s heart
Rendering a wanderer, now braver
Enameling away sea-shine opaline
as Nautili curling their striped sola
Soak me up to float down in blues
undulating in the sunk, spilled sou
roughened in a barnacle-concealer

Estuary-rich, unfurl the flowing life ~


(11/13/2020)...

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