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Love is a Quiet VerbWhen love is too loud, and lurid,
it languishes in lewd, lusty lakes.
When love is silent, and steadfast,
it sings sweetly with soft waves on sea shores.
When love is motionless and mute,
it meanders...
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Categories:
love, water,
Form: Alliteration
But Plumbers Cost So MuchSump pump is broken
Constant water run
Plumbers cost money
Homeowner is sad
Waits a bit too long
The basement floods
Ruins couches
Bedding thrown out
Salvage nothing
Expensive
Life lesson
Plumber comes
Nasty
Stump pump
Flood
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Categories:
water,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Water
Water
Written: by Miracle Man
5/16/2024
Morning started with just a tiny mist,
leaves on plants are just being kissed.
It won’t be long,
until they’re strong,
and from my water hose they ‘ll subsist.
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Categories:
rain, water,
Form: Limerick
Turbulent SeasTurbulent seas,
Down deep we go,
How I yurn to be free,
Deep down we go
Oh Let me breathe
Deep 'Into the, vo i d
'Let' me be at 'p e a c e'
Deep into the dark
I want to 'b...
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Categories:
water, dark, lost, ocean, pain,
Form: Rhyme
WaveIt bulges forwards
straining to break its own skin
shatters at its peak
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Categories:
nature, sea, water,
Form: Haiku
Where The River CriesThe poet hears the river’s cry
In the flow of waters going by
Ebb and flow, calm and storm
The poet finds the river’s form
In verse – in words that soothe and lift
The river’s wound the water shifts...
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Categories:
water, metaphor, poetry, poets, river,
Form: Couplet
Categories:
light, river, water,
Form: Haiku
Captive
Categories:
surreal, water,
Form: Free verse
Sunrise at the DockAs twilight’s veil begins to gently lift,
The fading grays give way to golds and blues.
And colors mark the waves as shadows shift,
Reflective of a new horizon’s hues.
Yet gazes fixed on distant unseen springs,
Omit the...
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Categories:
water, beach, earth, good morning,
Form: Sonnet
CoatimundiI once met a young coatimundi,
Vacationing by the Bay of Fundy.
In hopes of staying trim,
He went for a brief swim,
But sixty-foot tides swept him to Dundee.
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Categories:
water, animal, hope, ocean, vacation,
Form: Limerick
Baptism and reflection“An eternal man
Will bathe you in flames and light
To cleanse your own flesh of sin”
“Do not reflect flesh
Seek to mix water and flames
To reflect eternal light”
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Categories:
water, baptism, fire, light, mirror,
Form: Sedoka
Categories:
water, allusion, metaphor, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 1Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku
Fukuda Chiyo-ni (1703-1775) was a celebrated Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo.
Because morning glories
held my well-bucket hostage
I went begging for water!
—Chiyo-ni, loose translation/interpretation by Michael...
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Categories:
water, animal, fire, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Learning about waterLearning about water
How did the water we always drink become drinkable!
The water at the beginning of the world was not drinkable.
The water on Mars and other planets is not drinkable.
There were no clouds..
The spring waters...
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Categories:
water, earth, ocean, people, planet,
Form: Free verse
Kite of Luminous Splendour
Categories:
water, beautiful, family, friendship, ocean,
Form: Shape
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