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Waterlogged Poems - Poems about Waterlogged

Premium Member Summer Heat
...Sun is seen a flaming ball in the sky, Darting down pointed spears of smarting beams. Horrid heat waves, from the smoked earth, rise high. For drops of water, the thirsty earth screams......

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Categories: waterlogged, summer, sun,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Boating Accident
...Eroded, undercut, sagging for years beneath the weight of a dead sycamore, the bank gave way when the lake was closed and the dams opened up during the winter overflow, leaving the tree offsh......

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Categories: waterlogged, boat, memory, water,
Form: Free verse



Dawn Pond
...Brackish lichen forms a raft upon the pond, a low haze floats like a moored airship. Small frogs chirrup sotto-voce as if they were dreaming sparrows. Water birds dabble in their sleep. Soon ......

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Categories: waterlogged, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fountain
...As I drink from that strange fountain. I’m going to give you a single clue. And tell you where the treasure lies. The whole treasure, Could take hours to explain through the sparkles. I hav......

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Categories: waterlogged, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
After the Flood
...Stray cats slipped under a waterlogged night only to drift back bedraggled, as if today still pulled at their tails Old Charley Winslow died before the deluge, before the river threw itself o......

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Categories: waterlogged, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Home for the Aged
... Waterlogged with life washed up like castaways on the shore of old age. ......

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Categories: waterlogged, dark, humor,
Form: Haiku
at the doctor's
...at the doctor's There are days when I feel bereft of the people I knew are all dead and no one is coming to take their place there is a sense that I'm a waterlogged tree floating in a sullied i......

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Categories: waterlogged, addiction, allusion, america, art,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member River Rising
...waterlogged blue toes sinking feet down into mud river rising red ......

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Categories: waterlogged, beach, boat, destiny, earth
Form: Haiku
Darkness, A Binding Story
...The air around me is cold, a hollow ache within my bones. Darkness consumes my vision, my dreams are ink spilled on a page. My shoes are filled with stone, my eyes adrift in a river of tears. Em......

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Categories: waterlogged, absence, death, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Looking for Your Grace
...Sun, a flaming ball in the sky Waterlogged lands have long gone dry The soil of the land turned crusty Oh God, on us, have some mercy! Scorched in the fury of the sun, Are hot......

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Categories: waterlogged, angst, devotion, prayer,
Form: Kyrielle
survivors
...survivors The captain called up the harbor authorities needed a birth a ship no one had heard of, but its manifest stated Sydney-bound They let the ship birth on a disused pier far from the city......

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Categories: waterlogged, betrayal, corruption, dream, humanity,
Form: Blank verse
HEAVY DOWNPOUR
...HEAVY DOWNPOUR With heavy downpour and gloom so gray, There walked a man on a rainy day. With furrowed brows and an angry glare, His umbrella high, battling water's snare. Through puddles d......

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Categories: waterlogged, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Campfires and Thunderstorms
...Campfires and Thunderstorms Campfires and thunderstorms: Heads poke out from under cover To see clouds bursting that swell the river. Ears prick to hear tree-snapping sounds As lightn......

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Categories: waterlogged, adventure, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Verse
Rain Babble
...Often the rain has something to say to me, but this rainy day it is hyperactively neurotic. Each of my shoes are waterlogged by a squelching sky-fall. Then again there is the soggy dribble w......

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Categories: waterlogged, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Meet On the Stairs
...WE MEET ON THE STAIRS we met we married life spent what’s the story the story is ours from beginning to end not taken for granted i see how that ends we embrace the highs and lows whethe......

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Categories: waterlogged, anniversary,
Form: Free verse

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