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Drains Poems - Poems about Drains


Premium Member In a world of shadows and echoes, intellect drains away like a dry river
In a world of shadows and echoes, intellect drains away like a dry river, Where words are numbers and thoughts are soulless algorithms, We lose ourselves like stars at dawn, consumed by artificial light, And in every silent dream, another thinker withers, forgotten by time. Like the heroes of silent cinema, who shouted their stories In a language without words,...

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Categories: drains, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
All That Remains Of Yesterdays Wishes
Old flame memories, and game show repeats, viewed through tobacco, it's smoke fills the room, loneliness, only, stays glued to defeat, blue-bottles, can't help, but choke on the gloom. Dreams like the remote, corroded to rust, unopened, unpaid, bills sit by the door, surrendered and lost, to despair and dust, no-one levelled up, around here for sure. Each day's an ashtray, of stub...

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Categories: drains, dark, day, dream, loneliness,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Sewer drains
steam rises from vents the streets haze like fog machines at a rocket concert...

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Categories: drains, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Blocked Drains
My poor heart aches as my mind cogitates upon the deep desires of my dark soul, and searching for profound truths that can be expressed in mystic subtle syllables. Alas such thoughts come at the worst of times. I dream of them, elusive to extreme. I wake and these abstractions spiral up into nothingness of infinity, ethereal concepts lost into space, misty spectral reveries,...

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Categories: drains, angst,
Form: Free verse
Pain Drains Me: Sappho Translation
Sappho, fragment 58 loose translation by Michael R. Burch Pain drains me to the last drop . Sappho, fragment 130 (Lobel-Page 130 / Voigt 130) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Eros, the limb-shatterer, rattles me, an irresistible constrictor. Sappho, unnumbered fragment loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch What cannot be swept aside must be wept. Sappho, fragment 138 (Lobel-Page 138) loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch 1. Darling, let me see your face; unleash your eyes' grace. 2. Turn...

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Categories: drains, depression, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Epigram



Here Everybody Drains the Swamp
Here everybody drains the swamp The chunks of toxic glitter And brazen meat Intelligible only to the daunted fool Who filled it so Pour the acid wash Of peace and indulgence To cleanse the slop o’ plenty Time for mixes and fixes That clear paths meant For hot-air balloon rides The kind that tussle deep in minds Your liquid child Who gulps, swallows and bears The scorekeeper’s duties Flits to...

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Categories: drains, adventure, paradise, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
How Hate Drains
How Hate Drains Hate drains a soul from the surroundings of a feeling. ...

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Categories: drains, emotions, fate,
Form: Rhyme
The Room Drains
The Room Drains... The room drains to sepia. A long distant relative in a bowler hat, smoking a pipe; strokes your dog. The one on the couch....

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Categories: drains, dog, family, fantasy, science
Form: Prose
"my Heart Drains For You"
take from me all that you please I give unto you taste the warmest fruit of me and I will bleed sweetly for you cut at my dark lonely soul only the bone will show and I will bleed only for you fest at my open pure heart i promise to die for you paint the world with my blood and I will watch as you rip at...

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Categories: drains, black african american, devotion,
Form: I do not know?

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