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Sluices
Sluices Poems - Poems about Sluices
Definite Maybe
...Flash Poetry Challenge (3) "Oxymoron Titles” Share the news with your muse Have fun with whichever title you choose It’s time to open the sluices of your creative juices … Let the "O......
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Mark Toney
Categories:
sluices,
fun, humorous, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
A Stream In the Woods
...Like a toddler taking maiden steps The narrow stream moves through the woods Tripping and falling over pebbles and boulders Chiming its silver anklets Drowning the whisper of bamboo leaves ......
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Valsa George
Categories:
sluices,
beautiful, environment, spring, water,
Form:
Blank verse
The Shape of Water
...The shape of water such a mystery to me Staring at it for hours And still the shape is free A trickle drop drop A gurgle and bubble A breath infused whisper A deafening titans struggle It’......
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©
Melody Wiggett
Categories:
sluices,
perspective, water,
Form:
Free verse
The Monochrome Echo Chamber
... "The Monochrome Echo Chamber" How many Roads to "IT" Black as Black & White? or Unicorns and Rainbows? Unitarian 1 and only 1 Trinit......
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©
Lady Labyrinth
Categories:
sluices,
color, dark, humanity, i
Form:
Narrative
A Haunting Blemish
...“A meager life!” the world hurls out. Brooding rage stirs - grave music in mind: an orchestra of feelings, unsatisfied turmoiled thoughts, perceived by paining wounds - heartbeat with frig......
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©
Juanita Oosthuizen
Categories:
sluices,
abuse, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The Elasticity and Plasticity of My Private Space
...If you care for me As you claim you do Let me see If your feelings ring true In words and in spirit Deep enough to respect the elasticity and plasticity of the space I own which with respect ......
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©
John Sensele
Categories:
sluices,
poems,
Form:
Free verse
Faith To the Rescue In the Rain
...In the night, ignite the light Meant to delight The flight undertaken To heal the heartbroken Writhing in pain Overloaded in vain Misunderstood In a morose mood Catalysed Scandalised T......
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John Sensele
Categories:
sluices,
poems,
Form:
Free verse
Homer Brunett 1879-1912
...Homer Brunett 1879-1912 You didn’t think it would be easy? Did you? Life squirms incessantly, As with the molting snake, Turning and squeezing into mortal convolutions, With myriad forgott......
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©
Stark Hunter
Categories:
sluices,
life,
Form:
Epitaph
Waltzing With the Bees Is Rather Harmonic
...waltzing with bees is very harmonic? A stereo is not stereotypical as it stands for the legs and when legs stand the standing point of the most important works are created in vast swarms of teas whi......
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Taoi Chanan
Categories:
sluices,
adventure, africa, america, animal,
Form:
I do not know?
The Ruba'Iyat of Creteil Lake - Part Fifteen
...The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Fifteen She dreamed a dream all unfulfilled all through the dragging day Even while she tossed and grumbled half-starved and in dismay Two lives she lived as......
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©
T Wignesan
Categories:
sluices,
allegory,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Raindrops Falling 1
...Raindrops falling Haven’t seen the morning paper yet Here are the raindrops One, two, three.. The headlines must be… Floods in Mumbai Don’t go away Listen to the voices One, two, three…......
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©
S.Jagathsimhan Nair
Categories:
sluices,
nature,
Form:
Free verse
How Long Treading Water
...Neuro syntax thread mills beside constant streams of thought. Slowed and constricted to reserves for later turning churning production. Rushing through narrowed sluices of tedious occupation, ......
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Donald Meikle
Categories:
sluices,
introspection, time,
Form:
Free verse