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Washout Poems - Poems about Washout

Premium MemberKamala - 2024 - Trump

...~*~     ~*~     ~*~     ~*~     ~*~

Biden played Peter and risk
Took a chance, a hit or miss
Biden wanted to play chess
With Department of Justice
Constitution Sacrifice
Congress/Supr...
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Categories: washout, america, analogy, beautiful, bible,
Form: Jueju

Premium MemberPerception

...I thought I heard you calling in the rain from afar
What do you need on this gray day without a star?
The fog is lifting, revealing a crystal light
If you look in the sky, you may also see the sig...
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Categories: washout, angst, encouraging, senses, weather,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberWinner Or Loser

...WINNER
Perfect, accomplished
Achieving, functioning, flourishing
Victor, success; failure, washout
Declining, lapsing, falling
Defeated, ruined
LOSER...
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Categories: washout, loss, word play,
Form: Diamante

Premium MemberThunderstorm

...Thunderstorm
a midnight lightning
My monsoon, I could not awaken
thunder, I could not forsaken
Thundery tintinnabulation tinkling

A sudden, sonic boom
The thundery thunderhead thunder...
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Categories: washout, analogy, dark, sky, storm,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Much Anticipated Beach Day

...Vanished is the sun that had peeked so exuberantly
around the clouds! Our new beach chair that broke sits taunting me.
The castle that our children built (and then declared it grand)
lies unrecogn...
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Categories: washout, feelings,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberSolo Flight

...Kicks tires
Checks wires

Full stop 
Revs prop

Must heed
Airspeed

Thumbs up
Climbs up

No sweat
(Not yet)

Alas
No gas

In spin
Chagrin

No chute
Oh shoot

Bad day
Mayday
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Categories: washout, flying, humorous,
Form: Footle

Premium MemberWashout

...on valentines day  
night of hot passion cancelled~
punctured water bed 






Written on 3rd February 2019

For Valentine senyru  poetry contest

Sponsored by Tania Kitchin....
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Categories: washout, humor,
Form: Senryu

Upon Discovering a Wishbone

...Upon Discovering A Wishbone...
(to late for Hanukkah)

I attach very
little value, nee doubt
to farfetched linkedin
phenomena brought about
when breaking off

the larger section
of a wishbo...
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Categories: washout, allah, angel, faith, irony,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberPredawn, Without

...The wind,
a poetry brushing
my skin.
Ferns painting
ankles
in cool dew
on a hiker’s trek.

The stars,
arranged or
understood as
arranged...
a song not
yet forgot.
An arrangement of
not...
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Categories: washout, miss you, romantic love,
Form: Free verse

My Journey Is Not Summaries

...My journey is not summaries
I couldn’t understood story of life
When to start when do end
For your search I need bird wings
So this endless tale goes on
There is no limit of sky
There is no lim...
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Categories: washout, desire,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberVictim Or Victor

...Phoenix and Phoenicia

They had both been victims of their own sad minds stories lost told and untold
narratives to be re-authored livid experience lived in silence meaning smeared in
crusted mud...
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Categories: washout, change, , cute,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe Is

...She’s my beautiful infection,
                  My toxic allure,
         She’s the drug for my suicide.

          She’s stolen my reflection,
             My mind is obscure,
         She’s m...
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Categories: washout, drug, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Thanks For Asking

...Yes, I am fine thanks for asking
Am I? How do you really know?
Could it just be feelings I am masking
Always trying to protect others from suffering a blow
Jolt after jolt, punch after punch
Kno...
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Categories: washout, feelings, hurt, parents,
Form: Rhyme

Who Will It Be Each New Day

...WHO will IT be Each new DAY

Here is a list of things I want my
political candidate to have, be
and give to me this Christmas..

Who always will know what to say.
Who around with self or me wi...
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Categories: washout, humorous, political,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberWashout

...Meteoric warning of storm's danger, 
still awed nonetheless by its brute force.
And those giants along the tree line—
submitting to its dark, amorphous power—	
bow in the darting whip of its tong...
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Categories: washout, lost love, rain, storm,
Form: Prose Poetry

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