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Best Swabbed Poems

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Fingered
Chamber of secrets
Locked in wisps of steel incense
Swabbed sulfur din...

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Categories: swabbed, allegory, life, mystery,
Form: Senryu



You
I stared into the mirror today.
I saw you -
a needled zealot
hovering around my left shoulder;
Adolph Hitler dressed in 
opium-perfumed swatches.

You smelled like her.
You acted like...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swabbed, on writing and words
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Course of the Tradewinds
*Image of Sailing Ship by Pixabay.

Course Of The Tradewinds

Fair winds nudge the sails, as thoughts wane the souls,
talks start out its trails, whilst the crest...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swabbed, boat, men, sea,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Mr Ratman
Hello,
my name is Mr. Ratman
I've been injected twice 
with an experimental vaccine
get nasal swabbed three times a week
i wear a rag on my face consistently
i...

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Categories: swabbed, abuse,
Form: Free verse
I'Ve Never Been To the Isle of Man
All my life I’ve had this plan, to settle in the Isle of Man
I tried to swim like all good sports, but three miles out...

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Categories: swabbed, adventure, boat, giggle, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Chateau Pl
Chateau Pl

A sleep walk guided by reflections
Although somethings were real
Not the front entry way
Or the stair case
Or the garage for that matter
Scrubbed and alcohol swabbed...

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Categories: swabbed, class, food, jobs, satire,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Dying For a Smear
The medic said lie on the couch
She swabbed my cervix , I said OUCH
It's checking for cancer
So I can’t be a chancer
For cervical smears I...

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Categories: swabbed, health,
Form: Limerick
Soothing, Shore Breeze
On balmy beach blithe commodore
Without ship, rudder, or rowing oar
Striding gusts, waves only chore
Soothing breeze girdles the shore
Sidling along, currents to explore
Mind's tranquil base to...

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Categories: swabbed, beach
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Such Testing Times
I had my covid 19 test today
Twas uncomfy that’s all I will say
Swabbed my throat then my nose
Nose was clean there’s no crows*
I’m happy that...

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Categories: swabbed, health, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Powder, Perfume, Hormones
Neck a smooth, cylindrical mold
As sheathe with fibers carefully rolled
Pale, satin sheen artfully scrolled
Grace on soft, silky strands doled
In light, silted hologram to behold
Calamus breathes...

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Categories: swabbed, beauty, body,
Form: Rhyme
At Work
I sat at the x-ray machine checking traveler’s belongings
My co-worker beside me running the Explosive Detection Trace machine
Passenger came in put his bag on the...

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Categories: swabbed, funny
Form: I do not know?
Falmouth
He's a disgrace to the Red Duster someone said:
                ...

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© Peter Dorr  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swabbed, war, red, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Really, Understand My Face
I had a face transplant
'cos I was off my face, as was.
I trolled the book of faces
till I found one I liked.
We did a face...

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Categories: swabbed, goodbye, social,
Form: Free verse
Regal Love Portended
Sparkling black eyes aglow with love's ember
Appending lashes; swabbed cinders caressing
Sleek dark hair rippling waves of splendor
Blue, silk ribbon her coiffed crown dressing
Ashen, pale face...

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Categories: swabbed, love, mother
Form: Sonnet
A Family of Seven
I have heard "The mirror tells not a lie,’
I assuming myself the gorgeous one
Abased in front of the looking-glass.
I was one but the reflections were...

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Categories: swabbed, mysteryidentity, image,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs