Short Watershed Poems

Prone,lying side by side
Lapped by an ebbing tide,
Together upon passion's ride-
In love's embrace enlocked
This watershed,no longer shocks....

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Watershed and Watergate

From a watershed year to Watergate,
And all the people  could hardly wait;
We did  look;
Saw a crook;
What happened was us did Nixonate.

Jim Horn...

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The senseless, brutal murder of Emmett Till
       In 1955 haunts America's consciousness, still.

        He's a catalyst for the Civil Rights movement.
His casket left open, a horrific sight; watershed moment....

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The day our cell phones serve us breakfast in bed
That's when I'll say technology has reached a watershed
Never mind this other stuff
That we thought was enough
Bacon and eggs and a sweetie head to head


© Jack Ellison 2016...

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In the winter the wolves arrive.
And this slow mutation made our eye-lids heavy
As the Hands of April
Built the wolves a love affair.
The Animal World deemed to shift and shuffle.
And you were here in the meadow the whole time.
Sorting through me....

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Stubborn refusal by Rosa Parks
     to up from her bus seat set off sparks...

 that ignited flames of Civil Rights movement.
     'Twas a legendary, watershed moment!



 Submitted for...
Clerihew Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Regina McIntosh
Date written: 12/18/2020...

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FREE FOR ALL part 1
A milestone,a watershed,a tipping 
point sublime,to change the course
of, many lives,bringing peace of
mind.Concerns of health,age& dis-ease
free,now for one&all,without a fee,
without a plea for charity.
1946 UK NATIONAL HEALTH ACT
Listen to me recite these structured phrasis on youtube under my pen name icvhthyschiro...

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So little done,the pathos of things,this nearly man caught in ignorance on a lonely path where tempo treads softly,alone.A  time out for heartache,primeval  feelings sitting on a volcano in a bleak mid winter.Living for today one thing leads to another..out of the blue.A watershed..to catch this miracle, a glimpse of the soul..petal by petal  being doubly blessed....

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So little done,the pathos of things,this nearly man caught in ignorance on a lonely path where tempo treads softly,alone.A  time out for heartache, primeval  feelings sitting on a volcano in a bleak mid winter. Living for today one thing leads to another..out of the blue. A watershed..to catch this miracle, a glimpse of the soul..petal by petal being doubly blessed....

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On the bottom of a swiftly flowing riverbed
Emotions are being polished, in rocks stead
More than can be imagined in anyones head
Joyfully, our two hearts stories are being read
Tangled and entwined, us in this watershed
Sewn, we are by affectionate needle & thread
Eyes locked in conversation, no words ever said
I long for every moment as we cuddle in this bed...

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A fast in hurry. you
pretend that you
were dead.

The legend survives,
putting the land’s blood
in the grass roots.

The tremors had started
in the blue flame. A lunatic
calls for the moon to explain.

The tides were not coming ?
Watching hopelessly;
the decline of sinkers.

A watershed of humility.
The river has left the
body of water.


Satish Verma...

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"Moving through Walls"


There is no form 
to the watershed 
of memory

ghosts take 
many forms 
there is no body

just a reaching 
ever outward 
pulling slippery time 

back in, like a line
cutting like a scissor
through sheets of words

moving 
like a fish 
walking on water
 
effortlessly 
through walls

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
...

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Do not remove the hyphens.
The stars were trekking 
on foot.

All that was a mirage.
A hot rood was leading 
to a watershed.   

The wholeness splatters 
on the bank. The water,
takes all the dots and dashes.

The black tree was stark 
naked. No leaves, no fruits. 
Only the singed wood.    

You cannot make the 
matchsticks. You will have 
to rub your hands to start the fire. 


Satish Verma...

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There are watershed moments
  at some point in life when,
    in the floodlights of reason,
      the most hideous ogres
        in blood-curdling nightmares
          turn out to be
            just tiny, frightened mice;

            when, in the glare of sober logic,
          the worst terror,
        the most horrible demons
      are shown as mere shadows
    of matters that are,
  after all,
of no real consequence!...

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Watershed thunder 

Rise up the hill transformed by illusions, 
majestic mountains tells a  story.
intrigued  to us this ancient  world,
to celebrate this natural  glory   

Boasting  with  eagles  of  great flight,
waterfalls drool like jaggered  curtains, 
draped in rainbows  of colour  bright,

White thunder roars with sock - like feet.
pounding the rocks with erratic blows,
repeating the waves of history,
to a coastal foundry of the  sea,...

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So little done,the pathos of things,
this nearly man caught in ignorance
on a lonely path where tempo treads
softly,alone.A  time out for heartache,
primeval  feelings sitting on a volcano
in a bleak mid winter.Living for today
one thing leads to another..out of the blue.
A watershed..to catch this miracle, a
glimpse of the soul..petal by petal 
being doubly blessed.

phrasis from my 2007-9 PS blogs
Hear me recite this phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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