Best In One Fell Swoop Poems
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In One Fell Swoop
Your words cut- like a woodcutters axe
chopping me down,
blood spills onto the pine strewn floor.
Exhaling words. Spoken without thought,
or love, trapped in an unbreakable...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The Night the Grinch Stole our Muses 'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
The...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Memo for Destroyer Poet A LINDA: 3 20 p m, 23rd April 2013 Paris, FranceMEMO for Destroyer Poet A Linda: 3. 20 p.m., 23rd April 2013 – Paris, France
If you are Red I am Brown
If...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, dedication,
Form:
Dramatic monologue
Rainbows Dreaming of GrayScrambling tooth and nail for a patterned fate
I approached the lofty mansion of Learning's Gate.
All cued up for a slip of paper - the one...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, allegory, education, freedom, growing up, how
Form:
Alliteration
She was a star - I was a gazer
She was a star – I was a gazer
Imagine my surprise
when the stage door opened
and in walked a goddess
Dark hair, dark eyes,
a bounce in...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, art, love,
Form:
Free verse
COUNT DRACULA
As midnight strikes
Count Dracula
Sweeps across the floor
His piercing onyx eyes
Locked on his prey
He executes with artful grace
His macabre dance of seduction
And in one fell swoop
Charming...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, fantasy, longing, passion, sensual,
Form:
Free verse
Green Bean CasserolesShame on those who malign the green bean casserole!
It gustatory delightfulness I shall e'er extol!
With 'fork in cheek' I'll take nonbelievers to task,
And their foibles...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, food, funny, green,
Form:
Rhyme
LOVE IS PAINLOVE IS PAIN.
Love is pain, thereof I speak.
Hide the dirts underneath the sheet
Turbulent waters and sandy winds.
Such is my cursive feat.
Enjoined into man and woman.
Flee...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, anger, betrayal, deep, depression, love, pain,
Form:
Free verse
The twins, Part 1In the dark of night a wind took hold,
With powers charged to shake the sky,
By moody swings of gods up high,
Their breath alone enraged and...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, brother, philosophy, symbolism, visionary, , cute,
Form:
Prose
The Rain DancerAfter the movie finished, the young couple,
kissed and said goodnight.
It looked like rain was approaching,
as grey clouds came into sight.
He had to look after...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Corn Huskin' Bee Circa 1892In November when frost was on the punkin and corn was stacked in shocks,
And the snows began to fall and geese flew southward in V-shaped...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, humorous, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
backstabberThe moon seems somehow hollow tonight;
It’s light ghostly and intangible –
It peers at me like a baleful eye, marking me out
Spotlighting my...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, angst, girlfriend-boyfriend, sadbeautiful, me, heart, beautiful,
Form:
Free verse
Going Back HomeIt was a very long time ago, I'd say nearly fifty years
That she had let it all go and began switching gears
Having graduated from college...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, irony, , atheist,
Form:
Rhyme
Adam's LamentAdam mused and stroked his beard saying, "I've really got it made!
All I do is eat and sleep and lie beneath The Tree Of Life...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, funnyme, tree, life, me, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
NIGHT FALL
Night fell
And engulfed us all
In one fell swoop
Cold came and it was fall
Submitted on April 8, 2019, for contest APRIL 2019 PREMIER 2 sponsored by...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, autumn, change, nature, night, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
On the pull
Beside the bar I nursed my drink, depression was my food,
she entered like the World's first dawn and cut straight through my mood.
Her dress a...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, desire, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
A little faithAs light trades to measly ends,
I sell my bothered reason to the close bends,
Where the leasing share vends__
A little faith; a proving reason!
In one fell...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, encouraging, perspective,
Form:
I do not know?
a trite Nihilistic Occasion - part oneThis doodling Yankee (boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom made glove snugly,...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, deep, earth, fantasy, goodbye, holocaust, humanity,
Form:
I do not know?
PICNIC A LA DR SEUSS
Three fine fellows listening
to a concerto of cello
Dined at a picnic
under a weeping willow
While one turtle flew...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, celebration, fantasy, fun, silly, surreal, uplifting,
Form:
Light Verse
Private Roscoe D. Schlink's Induction DayDear Folks: Just a few lines from your homesick army draftee.
Just twenty-four hours in the army and if it was left up to me,
I'd...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, funnyme, old, me, old,
Form:
Rhyme
THIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with commentaryTHIRUKKURAL: Translation of Canto XXXVIII with notes and commentary
Canto XXXVIII of the Thirukkural on the topic of FATE which I give here in translation (by...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, fate, humanity, life, nature, riddle, wisdom,
Form:
Couplet
Our Daily BreadRacism. Trying to prove ones skin tone or ethnicity is superior to another’s.
Why we let a such word control society is beyond the human...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, old, racism,
Form:
ABC
WITHOUT A LIFELINE
She unfriended them
No one really knows why
Wanting nothing more to do
With members of the family
It’s quite a mystery how
She cut off her roots
Clean in one...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, family, growing up, heart, hurt, little
Form:
Free verse
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion - part twoendowing superlative creature comforts
reduce wretched survivors scant band of bare naked ladies
beastie boys, foo fighters espying counting crows
ready to buzzfeed toe kin homo sapiens
bereft,...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, absence, age, analogy, confusion, creation, dark,
Form:
I do not know?
LAWYERS AND BUZZARDS
I'm not much for throwing everyone
in the same basket but…
we've been put through the wringer
and we're at our wits' end
My blood boils when I think...
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Categories:
in one fell swoop, abuse, betrayal, corruption, forgiveness, grief, hurt,
Form:
Free verse