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Sloshing Poems - Poems about Sloshing

Gladiator Games
...The arena is built lie by lie, sobs by sobs. Names don't matter. A game is still a game, called by any other name. Children with ribs like shattered shields do not volunteer; they are raised f......

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Categories: sloshing, allegory, dark, world,
Form: Free verse
Inside
...Bubbles hit the walls of the dome and pop. Hurting sounds. Flinching tree branches. Feeling bored in here. As if my car won’t start. No one believes that my car won’t start. Or that the do......

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Categories: sloshing, depression,
Form: Free verse



A Rainy Day
...Rain, I adore, I impatiently wait for, Like a wife awaits her husband from war. Sloshing, splashing scintillating drops, Soothing my skin with hopes along with my smudged heart, Rain, my first......

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Categories: sloshing, beautiful, beauty, earth, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What do pigs know of Carpe Diem
...Piggies Pinky, Poinky, and Puck were sloshing in the summery farmyard's murky muck. It was the day before slaughter, and they were enjoying the lukewarm water, and the chorus of the cackly goose ......

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Categories: sloshing, animal, dark, farm, food,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member The Out-Shuffling of Stars and Witches and Angels
... My hand splits the deck, divides the weight of galaxies and shadows, halves of fate. At a drive-in, the Cutlass grows hot; glass bursts like safety-grade stars scattered between laps, a......

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Categories: sloshing, allusion, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Coffee
...How much caffeine is in my drink? I bet it’s more than I think… Frothy milk sloshing around. I set my cup on the ground. Sitting on a park bench, I pull out a snack. Hoping a squirrel doesn’t......

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Categories: sloshing, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Medication
...Rubbing my palms together. Too much heat, pills rolling on the counter. Rolling and toiling. The pills look bigger than usual. A glass of water, sloshing, and splattering. Medication is… W......

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Categories: sloshing, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Honor Thy Father is a Punchline
... It don't hurt. —Johnny Thunders, lead guitarist of The Dolls, last words My ancestors are made of malt and barley, barely a drop of water left— Midas in jorts and Nikes, overp......

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Categories: sloshing, abuse, addiction, anger, growth,
Form: Free verse
WATER WAYS
...From the moment you held me I knew you as deviant Unsafe, unpredictable Slithering around Up, and down, sloshing Yet...cool, refreshing Bringing joy and sorrow To my small frame Come little......

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Categories: sloshing, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raindrops
...The days when I played in them Not listening to any words from mom. Cherishing each drop falling on me Feeling as though a sparrow is free Sloshing, sploshing, and splashing Amidst lightning fla......

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Categories: sloshing, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shower Shoes-Naani
... shower shoes sloshing, soapy, slippery, and teeming with colossal cleanliness, toweled, culpable ......

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Categories: sloshing, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hug the Ocean More Than Any Tree
...From shore to deep, the colors of the sea, tan sand and white meringue bursting forth. Can you picture the lovers on the edge long after they're gone? Footprints......

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Categories: sloshing, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kingfisher
..."Look around and see how birds and animals disclose the secrets of self survival and display how their bodies are streamlined to excel in their art"- By Poet In the twisting tangle o......

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Categories: sloshing, bird, creation, fishing,
Form: Free verse
My Heart
...My Heart I am a glass half full Sometimes sloshing over the edge A temple for fireflies, sand dunes Water by nature, that cuts deeply Beneath the reeds, flowing fast Rapids, sometimes v......

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Categories: sloshing, nature, ocean, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anti-Poem - the Membrane Electric
...Anti-Poem — “The Membrane Electric” (Poet’s Instruction: Play “Two Thousand Light Years From Home” by The Rolling Stones, while reading this anti-Poem) susie and billy tripping into arterial lo......

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Categories: sloshing, memory, music,
Form: Free verse

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