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Stranding Poems - Poems about Stranding

A marionette

...A marionette of the void
Aware of the needle like strings,
Stranding on the edge of light
Yet covered by the veil of hollowness
A woeful homunculus, gazing at the abyss...
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Categories: stranding, feelings, grief, light, mental
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBlessed Advent Cores His Great Divine

..."Blessed assurance glory divine ..."

Supine haze swiped tall grass wooing shadows,
as chimes of wren's feathers a float parade,
begs a trace with leaves sought resting barrows, 
the...
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Categories: stranding, beautiful, blessing, creation, earth,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Memberan act called cetacean stranding

...when paired
pilot whales
choose one mate for life
a monogamous linkage
survivors will beach themselves when their mate dies...
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Categories: stranding, analogy,
Form: Suzette Prime

Premium MemberWhispers Skyline

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Written: May 20, 2024

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Siren stunningly sprung a sanguine sway
sailboat sheaths spread, and storms swell 
splendid summer shoreli...
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Categories: stranding, solitude, summer,
Form: Alliteration

Waiting

...Everyone is waiting for something dramatic to happen but they cannot tell from which angle, everyone is waiting for something to happen and it has to be a miracle.  

There is so much tension in th...
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Categories: stranding, america, business, confidence, courage,
Form: Narrative



Goodbye Six Pack Hello Poetry Scribes

...Goodbye six pack hello* poetry scribes

My poetic side COSMOFUNNEL
wordsmith thanks tumblr in his noggin
ofttimes triggering babbling brook 
to swell after deluge
becoming stream of consciousne...
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Categories: stranding, adventure, angst, april, body,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberOne Word

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with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You

like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumb...
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Categories: stranding, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Sour

...In the night
those tiny hairs
stand erect
at attention on my neck
Eyes darting from
lights undisturbed movement
Gulp almost in audible
under the racing muscles thrum
Noises unnoticed in the s...
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Categories: stranding, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Wild Love Horses

...horses
wild horses
they sleep stranding
but no one understanding
when two wild ones love
they meet up each night
two bodies 
one sky
one bed
stars
one blanket
two heads
one cloud
four ey...
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Categories: stranding, animal, art, beautiful, devotion,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberNot a Safe Time

...Winter winds start blowing snow on the road
and icy patches make the asphalt slick,
sending cars careening into the ditch.

Their tires spinning, cars end up in the ditch
though city tru...
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Categories: stranding, 10th grade, anxiety, imagery,
Form: Tritina

Lost Horizons

...by Mark Miller © 12/05/2014

Arms of blood living harm

Ruin track veins open lines

For dismal posture charms

Yellow tatters skin gore itch

Dark draw future empty essence

Longing Son'...
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Categories: stranding, allusion,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberKill Me

...Fast
Toss the knotted rope
Thrust the knife
Standing still
I wait

Kill the pain
Leave the burdens at heavens gate
In anxiety I saturate
Standing still
I wait

Rain
Falling from hell
Wa...
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Categories: stranding, angst, anxiety, art, death,
Form: Free verse

No More Balloons

...So this our time
Our time to know the unknowable
But time stopped 
with this dagger to the heart
delivered from a stranger's lips
How long knowing takes
with numbed minds 
and shattered though...
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Categories: stranding, brother, grief, loss, suicide,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVan Gogh Sans Une Oreille

...Thoughts froth, crest, and merge through ocean’s 
indiscriminate wandering, no recognizable
beginning or end like smoke on the wind, 
melding, melting, fusing coalescing.

Reality a fragile gras...
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Categories: stranding, art,
Form: Free verse

Here, Here Now

...Here, Here Now

Here, Here Now with each single word
Is strangest poem you have ever heard.

America's beauty all around was abounding
We had family fathers who were founding
Dreams of theirs ...
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Categories: stranding, history, humor,
Form: Couplet

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