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Washed Up Poems - Poems about Washed Up


Premium Member Washed Up
The tide and heavy seas had washed up a wealth of treasures to lay at my feet spread out in a long line just like the way wares are displayed on the street of an outdoor market. Shells, some polished to a sheen others just broken shards of a puzzle never to be put back together again. Tresses of weed, float bladders, a cuttlefish...

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Categories: washed up, pollution, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Washed Up
Strewn with cuts and a three day growth, His face all covered in blood, He wears torn denim jeans, with holes in its pockets, And an overcoat splattered in mud, And every day he walks through the door of his life, His brain hungover and dead, Not caring if he kills or is killed off himself, Not listening...

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Categories: washed up, abuse,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Washed Up Now
What once was such a beloved auto, shiny and new is now A rusty sad shell of her dazzling days gone by as she Stands so pitifully on tall grasses sprouting inside and out. Her horn hushed permanently, almost unrecognizable with Eyes completely blinded by vandals. She feels abandoned and Desperate to recapture what was once such a gay...

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Categories: washed up, age, change, sad,
Form: Acrostic
Oh the Washed Up Mystery
The sand seeping through my toes Down by the clear ocean water I look into the vast beyond Something catches my eye A girl, washed up onto the shore As I come near it seems quite ***** A tail I see? A fish no less? Be a women she must Afraid to touch her, but I must As her eyes awaken Her eyes...

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Categories: washed up, fantasy,
Form: Ballad
Washed Up
Where the Jester lies beaten against the cold shore, the Queen of Hearts sings....

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Categories: washed up, love, men, ocean, women,
Form: Haiku



Washed Up
Washed up on the beach Sand wet against my face Grit covering my soaked gown Tasting the salt in my airways Trying to pull my body up From the sludge left by the tide My arms weak from swimming out to sea Sudden realization that the ocean spat me out Gathering my resources I slowly scramble to my knees then feet You watched me walk...

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Categories: washed up, goodbye, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All Washed Up
Did Andy then clean up- with his brillo pad http://www.artchive.com/artchive/W/warhol/warhol_brillo_box.jpg.html...

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Categories: washed up, art
Form: Ekphrasis

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