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Sluiced Poems - Poems about Sluiced


Premium Member A Forty-Niner Named Wiggins
...The word of discovery of gold in '49 in Californy raced across the nation! Why, it was said you could fill a bushel basket full with little botheration! This appealed to a young feller in Boston to......

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Categories: sluiced, humorous, western,
Form: Rhyme
Shooting Sixty Four Rapids In the Time Stream
...Shooting sixty four rapids in the time stream Powder milk biscuits helped yours truly, a Norwegian farmer wannabe feel bold enough to weather inclement steady rain which swirled, pooled, and ......

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Categories: sluiced, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Song of Songs
...The church I went to as a teenager was full of sex. It seeped through the worn wooden pews into the pours of our hands. It sluiced around the stucco walls and fake stained-glass windows. The ......

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Categories: sluiced, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Shooting Rapids In the Time Stream
...Steady rain swirled, pooled, and eddied around rolled up pant legs skinny ankles, which immediately felt cold before undertow willingly steadily, and nimbly pulled this former ace swimmer int......

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Categories: sluiced, allusion, father, heaven, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Prejudice
...It clouds the vision of its proponents Causing them to see things that are not. It mixes their minds into components To which rational people give no thought. It dismisses those whose eyes are ......

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Categories: sluiced, discrimination, prejudice, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Marching Rocks
...Marching Rocks Like Toffee people chasing the westerly breeze And, presumably ordered, abruptly, to freeze- Tableaux is evocative of an ancient command That left a sprawl of stones scatte......

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Categories: sluiced,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bubble-Itch
...Bubble-Itch By Odin Roark Like a wheel of endless births Our personal bubble rolls and undulates From first breath to death Through meditations of desire Shopping malls and jails Farms Ca......

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Categories: sluiced, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Dr Seuss
...I could not, would not, eat my beans Will not, will not, eat those spleens. I will not eat them soaked in sauce. I will not eat them just because. Not braised with jam! Not with my tea! Not slui......

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Categories: sluiced, food, children,
Form: Rhyme
482 Trillion Miles
...My eyes are not what they once were, but I can see you clearly whooshing from your mother's womb, sluiced between thighs the grunts, shouts and cries reverberating eyes closed, arms slightly wa......

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Categories: sluiced, adventure, imagination, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Stupid Cupid
...You: Arrow Arrow-Cupid misplaced Pleased, I am To validate this man Basically: Pleasingly loved “Apple of my eyes” Heart-hanging from doves ......

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Categories: sluiced, lost love
Form: Light Verse
Photograph...
...How I wish I’d kept that picture… That framed doppelganger of you, Snapshot of a faded age, that can never be recaptured, Resurrected or relived, How I wish I had kept it, propped on my Ignom......

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Categories: sluiced, dedication, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, nostalgiame,
Form: Free verse
Starshine
...Bathed in your soft starlight warm Dissolving troubles the tension shorn Instill my mind with lucid dreams Elevate my soul on silvered beams Removing discord from atop my shoulders In temper......

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Categories: sluiced, devotion, faith, hope, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Sparks
...I knew when sparks flew From my brand in her cavern, The friction-lit dark Fanned the impotent fires; The charring of juices Hot, uric and spicy, Flowed a lateral tango And the hairs sluiced w......

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Categories: sluiced, lost love, love, passion,
Form: Verse

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