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Sink Or Swim Poems - Poems about Sink Or Swim
Sink or Swim
A tropical vacation that I never shall forget The clearest cleanest ocean that I’ve ever seen as yet I dabbled in a rock pool with a bamboo handled net I told my wife, “It’s just for fun, to see what I might get.” She said, “I know you all too well, you’re looking for a pet, But look around, there’s...
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Terry Flood
Categories:
sink or swim,
vacation,
Form:
Monorhyme
Sink Or Swim
sink lower, drowned submerging, burying, plummeting absorption, slump, backstroke, fishes snorkeling, diving, spearfishing floaty, enjoyable swim Date created: 03/26/2022...
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Edward Ibeh
Categories:
sink or swim,
creation, poetry, words,
Form:
Diamante
Sink Or Swim
I fight to keep my head above the waves. Perhaps I should have stayed inside the boat. But I believed them when they said, “He saves…” And now I see I was not built to float. If water is a metaphor for life, I’m not quite sure the lesson I should learn. I so don’t want to drown in all this...
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Stephen Tefft
Categories:
sink or swim,
boat, christian, confusion, faith,
Form:
Sonnet
Sink Or Swim
I ramble and shove words together And sometimes I pick apart my unpleasant thoughts Look, I can try to remember I can try to forget It’s sink or swim and I can’t tell which is which...
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Benjamin Varenikovich
Categories:
sink or swim,
time,
Form:
Free verse
Sink Or Swim
those who cannot swim will not drown in the water if they stay on land those who cannot swim should not drown in the water if they use a boat those who cannot swim should not drown in the water if they learn to swim swimmers never drown unless they enter water and even boats sink water gives and takes at what level should you float your choice sink...
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Ivor Davies
Categories:
sink or swim,
water,
Form:
Haiku
Sink Or Swim
A fool's paradise , to live for what might have been A maze from which escape comes hard A time spent which is futile,wasteful and sterile Wallowing in regret closes every door. Where you are and how you got there Should be your starting point Study the past,make your corrections Adjust and step out on your chosen path Dreams are there for fulfilment But...
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Denis Bruce
Categories:
sink or swim,
hope,
Form:
Free verse
Sink Or Swim
Sink or Swim? I never learned how to swim at all I was young and fell in as I recall I was frightened of water after that And reacted to water just like a cat I never had chance to swim in the sea I wish I could but that isn’t me I go to a pool try to stay afloat But...
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Pamela Griffiths
Categories:
sink or swim,
funnywater, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Sink Or Swim
Caught in a sea of memory Adrift with false security You claw for the shore But you need to see more You're drowning in your own history There's a lifeboat chartered on give and take You'll pay the price for the choice you make So play with the band Or paddle toward land Perhaps your ocean is merely a lake...
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Deb Wilson
Categories:
sink or swim,
introspection
Form:
Rhyme
Sink Or Swim
Into the little pond I jump.....Landing with a noisy… plonk Legs go up…… legs go down I can go like this all day…. Treading water all the way. Now you see me ....now you don’t Who am I….can you say ? Here’s a clue … to help you find your way. I change color frequently…to blend in with the scenery Can...
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Margaret Okubo
Categories:
sink or swim,
funny
Form:
Free verse