Undertow Poems - Poems about Undertow

Us

Before we go our separate ways
We smile and say good night
You sang me through the midnight haze
And in the morning light
I feel another gentle kiss
I see you smile and vape
That’s how it was, how it still is
Saved on the record tape
But it’s a different story now
When two of us are one
You are within me, undertow
So

ECHO IN THE UNDERTOW

[Verse 1]
The tide pulls me in when the lights go low
Your name still echoes in the undertow
No map, no trace, just the air you bend
I reach for you where the night won’t end

[Pre-Chorus 1]
I’ve been sailing blind, chasing your ghost
Waves don’t lie—they cut the most

[Chorus]
You’re my midnight flame
Still burning after the oceans came
You whisper through

Undertow

The Strange
Shadows
Lurking
Within
Gasps come from early morning dawn's mist
Blue board disappears in undertow

undertow

i should walk away.
i know that.
i rehearse it,
mouth the words
like a prayer i don’t believe in.

but you’re standing there,
and it’s already too late.

she trusts me.
he trusts you.
we are the knives
in their backs,
still warm with guilt.

you smile
and my ribs crack open
like old doors in a storm.

i don’t want this.
but i do.
i wish wanting you
felt more like

Undertow

We met on the seam 
between two drownings,
his cuff snagged in the kelp, 
my mouth lined with moss.
He grinned 
like a man who'd forgotten the surface,
held out his hand like a memory.

I took it.

We spun a waltz—
water-logged feet brushing 
the roof of the wreck, 
the nape of our need. 

My dress leaked its scales, 
his

Gold In The Undertow Reverse

Let yourself fall out of that trance..
there’s no wrong way to cast magick
Poppet, we can’t lose all we’ve known 
for more than a millennium
a ritual will mirror just one thing
the heart and intention of the spell
there’s no reason for a talisman 
unless you can understand it’s rhythm 
keep your invocation benevolent  
lest the threefold

Undertow

Waves
Onyx blue and nearly suffocating
I reach
Far back in my memory
And beckon the lessons learned
Of measured, freestyle sweeps
Stretching every cell to beat high tide

I look once more across our prairie sea for that dependable horizon
Night shades yawn and stretch
My bones give up their adrenaline lifelines
My heart sheds its protective gear
I let loose of my held breath

I

Undertow of Nostalgia

UNDERTOW OF NOSTALGIA
the ambiguous
    explored
on an indeterminate
surface

liberating
    the emotional freedom

 a splintered breakaway
  of
    excitement
& expectation
improvement
 emphasised
    by  innovation
effect& consequence
emphasised

 trends in full force
conveying
emotion
 meaning
  suggestion &
heightened sensation

a super reality
in the unconscious
  with enduring influence

maturity
denial
 of instant predictions
&priorities
factored to emergine
as motivations
    I re engage


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived

Undertow

Your arsenal never seemed so weak 
when you showed up  after countless weeks
we didn't speak
you were living in the moment
Why does this tunnel light
never seem to close?
it leads me down this shadow path
I never even asked
about that overdose.

I twist I trip to intervene
come in between
now you're laying low
You're back to slipping suits
up your sleeve

Undertow

It's like a powerful undertow that pulls you down below, 
till darkness swirls around you and there's no place you can go. 
It fills your head with sadness and it buries any hope, 
and soon you find that sleeping is the only way to cope. 

You wake up every morning with that same dark inner

Undertow In Panama City

A soak-of-hands linked together - the brave hope of tether saves a life

7/15/2019

Drug Undertow

Bombarding the bong like oxygen is wrong 
drinking alcohol like you’re a bottomless hole,
The speed the base the MDMA
the pace of life wastes you away
cocaine and ecstasy 
next day looking wrecked to me
Ketamine replaces vitamins 
face changes, unrecognisably 
Why buy more supplies 
When supplies die off 
and you die slow 
Unhappy unless under the influence,

Caught Undertow

While casual, coral reef cruising, marlin flygirl fishing,
my dinghy eyes got capsized 
into the shimmy-ing belly of a barracuda
Crustacean curiosity got sent on an abdominal mission

My dinghy eyes got capsized ... 
chum dummy fell overboard into the deep end
Lost in an ocean of pulse infatuation,
sponge orbitals didn’t realize

Into the shimmy-ing belly of a barracuda,
blubbering thoughts

Undertow

On the surface the water is nice,
To step in and swim would cost you no price
But when you step in, you feel a sharp pull
It comes from the water that seemed gentle and cool
The rippling liquid pulls you down under,
Is everything how is appears?
Its this that I wonder.....

Undertow

Have you ever faced a wave you knew could knock you down?

Knowing, this, you took a stand not giving any ground?

If duel-we must- with darkness to stay within the light;

From darkness we must learn the ways he hides while in our sight.

For in the deepest shadows lie, our crown of liberty.

If we emerge we've truly

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