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Tubing Poems - Poems about Tubing

All in Context

...The sledding hill was crowded
And I thought, as I walked by,
How expressions can mean different things,
Which age can magnify.

For when someone says of sledders,
“They are going downhill fast,...
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Categories: tubing, age, words,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Factory

...
As a child I was warned
that if I looked at the light
for too long it would send
me blind and yet
the stuttering flash
and eerie blue light 
from an arc welder
that crackled deep inside
the...
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Categories: tubing, anxiety, childhood, dream, fear,
Form: Free verse



I Hate the Things I Hate About Summer

...I love summer time,
But I hate being drenched in sweat.
I love being tan,
But I hate laying out.
I love not having school,
But I hate being bored.
I love swimming,
But I hate getting chlorine ...
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Categories: tubing, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Tubing On the Cannon

...Echoed giggles remain hysterical in Spring
Abundant greenery grows tall along the river
Both sides of the banks merge their foliage
Connecting branches together overhead     
Trees become an arch...
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Categories: tubing, adventure, appreciation, children, river,
Form: Free verse

The Final Emptying

...She has gleaned the bare root of her captive.

Soggy dressings fall away, dissolve on calloused feet.

No point in changing these regretful bindings now.

He tells her he understands, that he o...
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Categories: tubing, death, murder, psychological,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberHr Huff and Puff

...They called themselves
the "Moody Glues"
like jets in flight
higher than kites
huffing to no note deadbeat drummers
forever marching covertly across handless
fields of teenage want.
Tubing--a ...
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Categories: tubing, age, anxiety, community, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMars2020 Perseverance Rover

...It’s a robot dog with wheels some weirdo said loudly next door.
I am the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, space explorer.
I collect rocks and soil, and monitor weather, dust, and the air.
But not on ...
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Categories: tubing, space,
Form: Personification

Acoutic Turbinance Barkious

...The invention of the
Trunk-tree came from
his roots.
He wanted to help people
to discover new ways of
Water harvesting.
He used plastics to create
A hollow truck.
which would be the storage
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Categories: tubing, business, community, creation, education,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberHeirloom Whispers

...In the antique store
an old physician’s desk,
walnut and marble-topped,
holding the remnants of a life
of service; 
stories etched in 
wood, metal and stone.

Next to part of an ol...
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Categories: tubing, appreciation, memory, places, poems,
Form: Free verse

Rewind

...Rewind
By Julia Shaw

At seventy-two my life has been so very fine,
That I'd like to push a button and just rewind.
I'd go back to my wedding day so exciting
And marry again the man I found so ...
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Categories: tubing, appreciation, child, daughter, life,
Form: Rhyme

King of Kings: 1-90

...1	A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
		The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
		It casts an orb three hundred stories high
		Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
		The birds and trees ...
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Categories: tubing, metaphor, , western,
Form: Epic

Saturday Morning

...Put the headset on
	adjust the boom mic
launch the software
	in the manuscript write

outside of my room
	lit with artificial lights
cold black night sky
	over empty city now

seeking words...
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Categories: tubing, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberInner Peace On An Inner Tube

...An old man and an old woman down an old river decided to float.
They opted to glide on inner tubes instead of in a boat.

In an inner tube, they heard…stress and troubles will decrease…
So in the...
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Categories: tubing, peace,
Form: Verse

The Man Who Rode Champ, Part I

...If you’ve been to north New York,
or the western side of Vermont,
you might’ve head of a sea monster,
the vast Lake Champlain is his haunt.

The locals all call him ‘Champy,’
not to dissimilar ...
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Categories: tubing, adventure, animal, crazy, drink,
Form: Narrative

Catching Snowflakes

...Catching snowflakes on the tip of my tongue.
Fleeting memories of when I was young
Tubing down rivers, fishing for bass
Going to drive-ins with some lovely lass.
They all swirl about me, some mor...
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Categories: tubing, age, humor, winter, youth,
Form: Rhyme

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