Wash Out Poems - Poems about Wash Out

Beyond Grief's Rusty Gate

...so harrowing, life journey from radiant light to pitch-darkness - quote by poet.

 a (groaning) dread 
              nobody deserves 
to muddle through, 
       day after day; 
the loss of ...

The Secrets I Hide

...Convinced I am 
I'll never be me again
The one who created the pain
The one who had so much to gain
But lost out in the end
To a race against time
A figment of me
Just a pigment of hope
Lie d...

Return My Tears

...for : Choose a line 2
Sponsor : Joseph May
prompt: “The darkened sky stole my tears”
submission date :  27/5/25
Placed : 4th : multiple 

   RETURN MY TEARS 

The darkened sk...

Remember What You Told Me

...Do you remember the last time you looked at me?
Did you know then, that it would be the last?

There’s still space for your breath here
In my lungs
There’s still shelter here
Within my ribs
Th...

subtracting voices

...chandeliers hung by dead feathers
cannon balls of years when time hated fairly
left over promises i'm not friends with

getting lept out
hanging death 
to find a friend
running away
marrying ...

Potpourri of new verse - some could be better, some could be worse

...I always wanted to be a medieval jester,
the one who sneaks up behind the queen
and makes her guess who caressed her.
I always wanted to be the Lord of Misrule,
King Lear's sad foo...

my dogs of course

...I would pack my dogs into the car
It might take ten minutes to get the puppy in
He is stronger than both of us
And he despises the car

If there is extra time I would take a few canvases,
A twe...

In the Twilight of Her Tears

...In the Twilight of Her Tears
by Michael R. Burch, age 19

In the twilight of her tears
I saw the shadows of the years
that had taken with them all our joys and cares ...

There in an ebbing ti...

wet day

...r
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r(*)a(*)i(*)n
r(*)a(*)i(*)n(*)d
r(*)a(*)i(*)n(*)d(*)r
r(*)a(*)i(*)n(*)d(*)r(*)o
r(*)a(*)i(*)n(*)d(*)r(*)o(*)p
r(*)a(*)i(*)n(*)d(*)r(*)o(*)p(*)s
rain(*)drops(*)rain(...

Teal Bricks, Indigo Wall

...Let me hear that applause though I've done little to warrant it
Time is a poor curative for what's fundamentally broken
Brain's full pal, sorry, you've gotta go home
Even though I'm the one who pa...

Empty the Pot

...It would be fine indeed,
if we could wash out the mind
each morning.

Thoughts get stale,
the mind like an air deprived swamp,
begins to stink,
and the only way
to go out into the world anew
...

Quick Shower and Shampoo

...turn on the hot water faucet let it run
add the cold water faucet for a warm one
make sure the bath mat is down so no slipping
get nude it's a shower like skinny dipping
wet wet get drenched and ...

January 24th, 2023 Hair Washing Heralds Huge Happening

...January 24th, 2023 Hair washing heralds huge happening

Hark….the herald angels sing, and twitter 
for mass communication 
mediums stop the presses 
when I, a regular schlemiel 
take shampoo to...

Bring On the Rain

...Bring on the rain
I want to again
To wash out this burning Haze
I feel it a drift in my nights distance Seas

Pounding a flight through my heart 
A Temple of soul
Pulsing tight to the back of ...

Bad Gig

...The pole is slick
there's a smell emanating from the toilets
body odor and a thick male musk in the smoky air.
I'm not here to gawp at the dancer
just bar tend.
The floor is sticky, the glasses ...

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