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Lashed Poems - Poems about Lashed

Premium Member Bounty of the Sea
...'Twas dawn and all the sky blazed red. The tell-tales snapped like waving flags. The keening wind was full of dread; all surplus sails were stowed in bags. Though somewhere on the restless mai......

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Categories: lashed, adventure, nature, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interview with a Barnacle
... The recorder clicks on. What made you stay? I didn’t stay. I fastened. I was made to fasten. And if you're made to fasten, you look for something moving. Something strong enough......

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Categories: lashed, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member unintended innuendo
...As a slip of tongue whip-lashed a pun, The hurt begun, could not be undone. The room hushed, smiles withdrew, As sarcastic pathos turned its screw. A simple phrase — at first glace plain, Was......

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Categories: lashed, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Rivers Jumps Our Banks
...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking - the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines and telephone wires twist netting loosening foundations. Where we once believed roots gripp......

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Categories: lashed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Kicking Him While hes down and I was kicking from rock bottoms floor
...I was the storm in his already burning house, the shaking hands gripping the match, the hurricane whispering, You deserved this. But I did not mean to be destruction. I did not wake up one morn......

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Categories: lashed, addiction, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Slavery
... Chains that clatter, rusted tight, Steal the warmth of morning light. Backs are bent, hands are sore, Lashed and broken evermore. Fields of sorrow, cotton white, Torn from dawn till dead of ......

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Categories: lashed, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Dragon Riders Saga IV
...The Dragon Riders Saga IV Suddenly the hot breath if death came searing upon his back As he turned around the creature ever quickly did attack Thrown from the cave he turned and arched hard into......

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Categories: lashed, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member BYE-BYE FLY
... A fly flew through the kitchen window, I was frying, He was big, fat and very black, He nonchalantly settled on the drying rack, No doubt had followed the aroma of food, uninvited prying, Wit......

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Categories: lashed, anger,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Wild Flower Love
...O’ my dearest love, I gather the world’s rarest petals for you— Ghost Orchid fragrance lingers in the marsh’s quiet air look, love, it fades then rises in th......

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Categories: lashed, devotion, flower, love, memory,
Form: Lyric
Desert Rose
...A pretty little rose born in desert land Growing in torched hot sand Where loneliness all around And no company can be found Lashed by sunlight Dry out in hot thirsty night Though don't kno......

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Categories: lashed, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Climate Unchanged
...Wind lashed fronds whip a neck twisting air. Florida bleeds green. A large woman in a rainbow muumuu, a toy poodle pushed tightly into her folds wades into the storm determined to bring a hurric......

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Categories: lashed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When she’s dissatisfied,
...a river of guilt washes over me. My chest tightens, my stomach knots. I can’t eat.?I can’t speak. It feels better than the blows? that once lashed against my skin.? At least the hits explained......

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Categories: lashed, 11th grade, abuse, age,
Form: Free verse
The seafarer
... I was sailing alone in the stormy sea of life, Sullen thoughts invaded my mind Dark waves lashed my heart Until you came aboard, lost at sea, my soul found the shore. ......

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Categories: lashed, sea, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sleepless Sheep
... Sheep Sam could not seek sleep that night as storm sounds crashed and clashed; the thunder blasted booms while bright bold beams of lightning lashed. So sadly, Sam said, “We can't sl......

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Categories: lashed, nursery rhyme, sleep, storm,
Form: Alliteration
Sultry is the Breathless Air
...No one lit a match. no lamp spilled, the air kept kindling its hot heart, it pulsed red all day The heat-heavy evening slumped toward a simmering earth, clouds began to roil, they swirled, ......

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Categories: lashed, poetry,
Form: Free verse

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