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Best Swimming Poems

Below are the all-time best Swimming poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swimming poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Wave and Shore
I am a wave.
From far I come to you
Swimming with desire.
In wild curls I come,
Riding with music,
Travelling on sunbeams.

Within my hidden folds,
I carry the thoughts...

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Categories: swimming, love, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Narwhal Song
~The Narwhal Beckons Before Dawn~

   If I could sing a song,
   It wouldn't be just any song.
   I would...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swimming, abuse, character, dance, deep,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member - My Dreams -
Close your eyes and forget the rain
                  ...

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Categories: swimming, dream, faith, hope, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Liberty of Expression Is Here
Why I am here in Poetrysoup?

I like a seed carelessly thrown 
upon dirty solid black, brown rocks,
I strive, thrived to grow 
despite big rough blocks..

words......

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Categories: swimming, poems, poetess, poetry, write,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: swimming, destiny,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member He Touched Me
Do you know what it is like to be an untouchable?
To be so filthy and disgusting
That people shrink away from you
Do you know how it...

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Categories: swimming, miracle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pride and Joy of His Family
Having lived on earth for some time now
Impatiently he dwells, harboring self doubt.
In face of impediments he loses his mind
Acquiring dispositions like hate and lies,
Hosting...

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Categories: swimming, integrity, life, men, people,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Red Umbrella
I was going on a blind date and walked across town
The weather wasn’t kind, rain was pouring down
It was my friend’s sister and he arranged...

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Categories: swimming, dream, rain, romance,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bathe In Liberty
Ariel eyes gaze towards sapphire seas.
Mermaids have no purpose in aquariums.
Yet so many struggle to escape shallow streams.

Sitting upon sandy shores,
depth of her emotions, reflect...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swimming, analogy, change, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fated as Couplets
The ignorant ones claim, 
I'm full of petty problems,
a slave to the darkness,
but if only they had seen 
how I've slaughtered 
malicious demonic sea creatures
that...

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Categories: swimming, feelings, miss you, myth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can You Spare a Teardrop
I cried for so long, so many nights,
and now no more tears can drop,
I'm all out, do you have some to spare,
cause you know once...

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Categories: swimming, cry, emotions, feelings, how
Form: Quatrain
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: swimming, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Out of Season - a Short Story
I was wiping the dust off an old snow globe in the upstairs attic, when a mop of honey-blonde hair suddenly appeared through the wooden...

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Categories: swimming, august, bereavement, blue, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Summer
Oh summer what have you done to me
so many flirtatious winks  teasingly
undressing me  with every wisp of
a welcomed heat filled breath

Oh summer, oh...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swimming, love, summer,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Agatha Christie Taught Me To Be a Book Worm
Behind a chair 
        Below a desk
 with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...

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Categories: swimming, books,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things