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Skim Poems - Poems about Skim

Premium Member What Makes Me Smile
... Greeted by the sound of the ocean all sadness eases away as I skim the surface of a smile, I suddenly make headway Showered by rainfalls I am filled with the scent of petrichor I smile, at ......

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Categories: skim, devotion, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer At a Riverbank
...Summer arrives in golden light, Mountains shed their snowy white. The river moves with joyful gleam, Shining bright in the sun’s beam. Through rocky beds, she winds with ease, Nourishing earth......

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Categories: skim, animal, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Back Yard
...Back Yard Just sitting on my back porch. In my back-yard. Looking into the sky. No worries. Keep things simple. Take it easy today and tomorrow. Live alone. That’s the way it goes. ......

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Categories: skim, simple,
Form: Rhyme
As we metamorphose
...Trust your imagination, dream, believe, Take my hand, I'll show you land, that you cannot perceive. Join me as we take a ride, Not across the planet, but inside, Each creature, plant and ston......

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Categories: skim, nature,
Form: Rhyme
On the River
...Morning, the river belongs to the geese Who congregate on the bank Poke about in the grass Run, take flight, and land on the water Heave their wings to skim the surface Noisy and honking, splash......

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Categories: skim, humanity, nature,
Form: Free verse



Wind Binder
...Wind Binder First plane to fly 1903. A flying machine. Made from the Wright Brothers. Take flight through the air. Glide through the horizon. What an amazing feeling. Transport here and there.......

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Categories: skim, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sailors' Souls
...Solitary seafarer sings sea chanties, salty sea breeze serenity, sea birds skim waves, suddenly, so many sailors' souls of the sunken WW II ship USS Indianapolis started singing sonorous, soari......

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Categories: skim, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Boring Life
...Buy orange juice. It’s on the list. There’s nothing like it. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing at all. Buy milk. There’s two percent. Whole milk. Doesn’t fill the void. Doesn’t make me less......

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Categories: skim, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Deprived of your love
...Like a raging river barreling toward an arid basin, sediment collects inside a hardening heart. Weighing heavy, eyelids flutter over drowning maculas; all that can be seen are murky ript......

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Categories: skim, angst, dark, poetry, solitude,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member ECHOES OF THE LAKE
...Trumpet-like lilies by the lake preen for the flamboyant flamingo, sifting through the murky waters, searching for algae and shrimp where crawdads click and clatter. While silvery fish glide s......

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Categories: skim, animal, bird, flower, insect,
Form: Free verse
How to Hunt Love
...Throw an arrow, remember to sharpen it before it reaches it's end target Who is naïve enough to cross your parameters of closeness Capture this person whose mere sight you adore Aim at their le......

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Categories: skim, adventure, crazy, emo, emotions,
Form: Suzette Prime
Memories In A Frozen Mist
...You are locked away in a frozen mist Your hand once warm upon my knee, my phantom limb— the sky atop your shoulders I kissed. You were never a man who balled your fist Instead, your eyes had gu......

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Categories: skim, 12th grade, absence, childhood,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Still-life:Water Lilies
... On placid waters of the reflecting pool, petals fully open as in a gesture of silent imploring, surrounded by a world of shimmering reflections. Small red carp feed on tiny insects th......

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Categories: skim, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Our Californian Marsh
...In the land of golden sunshine, where the waves do crash, There lies a tranquil beauty, a Californian marsh. Where waters shimmer softly, reflecting skies so blue, A haven for the creatures, an......

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Categories: skim, 7th grade, america,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Headline Deep
...Perception is reality…who needs the truth? The court of public opinion won’t ask for proof Peeling the onion is too much to bear Skim the surface and pretend to care Crash landing…nothing stand......

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Categories: skim, culture, society,
Form: Free verse

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