Splosh Poems

Premium MemberParched Earth-2 Forms

...1. Form: Free Verse/Theme: Indulgence

Singing those praises in church,
I see a vision of a parched earth.
Geosmin scent ascends;
or descends. Transference
between reality and surreality.

My...
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Categories: splosh, hope, longing, rain, weather,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRaining in Summer

...Like a welcome Summer rain, humor may suddenly
cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
—Langston Hughes

RAINING IN SUMMER

  The little teapot leaned over, steam pours out...
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Categories: splosh, rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberApril Fools' Day Cat

...A cat on April Fools’, sleek and cool,
Found itself in a rather wet duel.
With a splash and a splosh,
In a fishbowl, it did wash,
Proving even a feline can be a fool!...
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Categories: splosh, april, cat, humor,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThe Submisive Loser Dominant Victors Shower Of Rage

...The Naked brazen placid blue
Meets its foe the dark forbidding nemeses
Who unleashes his growing anger and fury
Obliterating and defeating his enemy
Proclaims a victory and unrolls his miserable ...
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Categories: splosh, anger, birth, conflict, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberExtra Pizzazz Jazz

...The oomph and zing of extra spin
adds razzmatazz to shot akin
to the standing ovation din
a hole in one gets for a win.

The cream screams to the top.

The razzle and dazzle of dance 
shake, ...
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Categories: splosh, dance, music,
Form: Verse


Premium MemberJinglejangle

...tippy-toe tap tap
pitter-patter slosh 
splish splosh, splash,
drip of tap
purr of cat
twits of bird chat
ratter tat, ratter tat 
knocks on my door.
The unintended muse
was stifled 
by the h...
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Categories: splosh, silence, word play, words,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTears In the Rain

...Raindrops on window
coalesce to create rivulets, 
that run down the window pane.

They are like teardrops, 
which emanate from pain deep within, 
and which run down the face,
leaving snail tra...
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Categories: splosh, cry, rain,
Form: Free verse

Hitting the Sack

...Alarm
Bursts calm

Day dawns
Loud yawns

Blow nose
Stretch toes

Quick wash
Splish splosh

Grab vest
Get dressed

Gulp tea
Then flee

I'm late
Stressed state

The boss
Is cross
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Categories: splosh, work,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberGone Fishing

...Burbling brooks
Small fish hooks
A rod goes thwip
With subtle whip
the float will drop
soft gentle plop
Tick, tock, tick
Patience the trick
A mighty thwap
The line goes snap
Wind with zeal
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Categories: splosh, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHo Hum, the Doldrums

...
Ho hum, the doldrums:
I twiddle my thumbs
and scratch my bum.
I bumble ‘round,
and when I’m done,
I murmur, mumble, humph and hum.

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Categories: splosh, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAbout a Plug

...A good number of us decided to go on holiday down to the sea,
Well, it was such a fun crazy time and it ended far too quickly,
Every night a couples’ name was pulled out of the hat,
It was our tur...
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Categories: splosh, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Un-Fairie Queen

...An un-fairie queene
from an unchivalrous tale
lumping and clumping
off beaten tracks
down beaten ones
so beaten
that they click and crack
criss-crossed with crabgrass
so tall that it looks
l...
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Categories: splosh, hope,
Form: Free verse

Beach Day

...While strolling on the beach
I can feel the sand crunch underneath my toes.
As I walk along the shore
The waves splash my feet.
I can hear the seagulls squawk above.
I feel ...
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Categories: splosh, animal, beach, beautiful, bird,
Form: Other

Premium MemberRaindrops

...As
rain
starts to fall 
pitter-patter-pitter
beads of water combine
together creating puddles of
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Categories: splosh, life, rain, water,
Form: Concrete

Premium MemberSurveyor of the Storm

...SURVEYOR OF THE STORM

Today’s early afternoon is somber-gray.
Red, white, blue, cherry willow, stars.

A single lightning bolt, in downward zigzag,
striking, alongside the bark of a crépe myrt...
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Categories: splosh, storm,
Form: Couplet

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