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silent grey
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colin heavingham
| ABC |
swimming, money,
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Avoiding the Elitist Within
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
swimming, culture, health, history, integrity,
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Childhood Theme Park
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Kevin Shaw
| Rhyme |
swimming, adventure, appreciation, childhood, happy,
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Elle to Abe
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Carolyn Fish
| Ballad |
swimming, heartbreak, lost love, memory,
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Cause I Was Absent
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MAHTAB BANGALEE
| Free verse |
swimming, how i feel,
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Spray Tanned Jack Ass
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Robin Regan
| Free verse |
swimming, political,
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Grandma Attacks Great Whites
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Caren Krutsinger
| Light Verse |
swimming, 4th grade, 5th grade,
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There's Blue All Around
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Gordon McConnell
| Rhyme |
swimming, blue, color, life,
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Somewhere near an Island
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Matthew Anish
| Blank verse |
swimming, happiness, peace,
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Jellyfish
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Julia Ford
| Narrative |
swimming, boyfriend, break up, care,
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Trinity
by Chantelle Anne Cooke
Trinity
I Body
The presence of the essence of flesh, blood and bone.
Flesh feeds the needs of energy, space and filigree lace.
Veins are trains of life with...
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Categories:
swimming, imagination, inspiration, metaphor, moon,
I Had a Martini: Ok, Maybe Four
by Lin Lane
It'd been one of the most bizarre days; downright crazy
so I had a martini, maybe four, so things got kinda hazy
I fumbled in my wallet...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
swimming, humor,
Emerald Fire
by Vladislav Raven
You touch the night with emerald fire,
it flames out far from your own star,
it touches my soul with flaming desire,
forever your emerald fire comes from...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
swimming, love,
YOUR DELICIOUS FACE
by Ann Gilmour
Walking beside the ocean always fills me with emotion
Reminiscing of that special day when first I saw your face
You were swimming in the deep blue...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
swimming, lost love, sad love,
Bienvenido
by Winsome Miller-Rowe
Nestled in the hills, with panoramic view
Of hills and valleys and skies of blue
I sit on the porch in the morning hours
And listen to the...
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swimming, appreciation, beautiful, emotions, home,
SAILOR FOR THE LORD
by James Edward Lee Sr.
Don't hide behind the shadows
Come out into the light
It really does matter
When you put up a good fight
Don't climb the mountain
Just to jump off the...
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Categories:
swimming, allegory, appreciation, assonance, jesus,
A Dream Date
by Tom Cunningham
I was going on a blind date and walked across town
The weather wasn’t kind, rain was pouring down
It was my friend’s sister and he arranged...
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swimming, dream, rain, romance,
OLD AGE AND RELATIVITY
by Jim Yerman
I’m not sure how one explains old age…I’m not sure what rules apply.
At the funeral when my Grandma died…I remember how they tried…
I heard them...
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swimming, old,
Me, dreams, reality
by Ember Arc
One bright night
In the Twilight of day
I awoken to a dream
With in a world of worlds
Not my self, but still the same
What was it?...
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swimming, adventure, age, dream,
Mouthwash Guppy
by Caren Krutsinger
Out of all of the plastic mouth wash bottles in America, I had to fall into this one.
It happened in the middle of a life...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
swimming, 5th grade, 6th grade,
cancel me
by cs parker
98
Keep the
Morning light
Keep the
Darkness
Of the eve
Cancel me
On the waves
No I don’t surf
Or swim
In the salt water
No matter what
No bother
Just like my limbs
Out of...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
swimming, abuse, america,
What I'm Gobsmacks, Bamboozles and All This Confuses Me
by James Edward Lee Sr.
What I'm Gobsmacks, Bamboozles and All This Confuses Me
What I'm Gobsmacks, Bamboozles and All This Confuses Me
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Free verse |
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Categories:
swimming, absence, analogy, character, endurance,
Take it to the pens
by Alex Duffy
I'm fighting a war but I'm at peace when I take it to the pens
When you go through tough times as a boy, you're...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
swimming, deep, emotions, encouraging, inspiration,
Lake
by Andrew Fairchild
There is no horizon like a flat horizon!
The autumn water's stinging embrace
Is like an Ice Queen's embrace: sudden, and welcoming, and deadly...
Is like squeezing...
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swimming, autumn, dedication, life, nature,
Try something new
by Viv Wigley
I want a different job, something like working at the zoo,
I'm ready for a change and it certainly is something Gnu.
A Baywatch lifeguard on the...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
swimming, jobs,
MY LIFE IN VERBS
by John Arribas
MY LIFE IN VERBS
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS
Nothing, Something Treading, Swimming, Navigating, Vibrating, Penetrating, Dividing, Multiplying, Forming, Shaping, Moving, Kicking, Exiting, Crying, Breathing, Seeing, Sleeping,...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
swimming, analogy, death, introspection, life,
Romancing Summer
by Jo Daniel
The sun is a shining,
My heart is a pining,
Bright summer is here,
The hammock reclining,
I'm going a swimming,
My heart is a brimming,
Cool...
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Rubaiyat |
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swimming, heart, romance, summer,
Pride and joy of his family
by Vijay Pandit
Having lived on earth for some time now
Impatiently he dwells, harboring self doubt.
In face of impediments he loses his mind
Acquiring dispositions like hate and lies,
Hosting...
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Verse |
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Categories:
swimming, integrity, life, men, people,
swimming in regret
by cs parker
29
So swimming
In this regret
Makes me
Wonder
Could I even
Get any better
Or realize
I was the
One to get
But lets
Not forget
All the
Poems
I would
Have missed
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Free verse |
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Categories:
swimming, abuse, america, angst, anxiety,
PRAYER REQUESTS
by Beata Agustin
Anna, the prayerful child, has these requests this season to Abba Father:
Bob, her friend-boxer to avoid and never miss a bad dab
Cedec, the street child...
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ABC |
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Categories:
swimming, blessing, character, cheer up,