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Best Swaggered Poems


Premium Member Sipping Cedar With My Sweetheart
...And his frost-clad lips I gently kissed
So mildly radiant amid this  place--
That the silvery night grew quite intense
Until a gasp rushed from his cheeks.
While awakening to each other
       O......

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Categories: swaggered, desire, sweet love,
Form: Free verse
Murdering Pluto
...
"Murdering Pluto" 

On Pluto, 
they deal with trauma
in the best possible way,
they murder it slowly 
in poetic hell 
day after day.

the dark Seraphim
have their way.......

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Categories: swaggered, dark, muse, mystery, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Gambler
...The steely-eyed hombre stepped down from the stage that sultry afternoon.
He looked about with disdain, then swaggered to the Cripple Creek Saloon.
His hat lay low upon his brow and swung low was a......

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Categories: swaggered, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Out of the Blue
...Out of the blue I searched for you,
Under yellow skies I walked,
With scarlet red the things you knew!
The black lace talked and talked

I found you thumbing on the road,
Drifting south for a c......

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Categories: swaggered, color, fantasy, journey, magic,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Magpie Murder
...Six magpies brought their mourning squawk,
soon joined by several others,
disturbing all their neighbour's talk 
and waking sleepy lovers.

Some hopped and did their swaggered strut 
between a ......

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Categories: swaggered, bereavement, bird, death, death
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Loved You, John Wayne
...I loved you John Wayne!
		I wished you were my father
		or maybe an older brother 
		who’d tutor me to be tough
		when manners weren’t enough
		and toughness was needed
		that civility be heede......

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© Bill Keen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swaggered, assonance, humorous, , western,
Form: Light Verse



What Do You See
...What do you see when our eyes chance to meet?
A wizened old woman; a mouth void of teeth?
No heavenly body, no long flowing curls 
Just a gnarled, barren landscape remains of the girl.

Can’t you see......

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Categories: swaggered, allegory, caregiving, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Size Does Matter- Buzzard and Flamingos Contest
...Bob the buzzard is colour blind i think
he doesnt think a flamingo should be pink,
say he has seen many and he knows
that flamingos are blue in Galapagos.

buzzards eyes gleen as he watches them......

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Categories: swaggered, bird,
Form: Rhyme
The Duke
...There was a man's man, you could say he was grand,
 who blessed the cinema screen and had millions of fans.
When he swaggered into a room, men stepped aside, 
 their wives and their daughters they......

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Categories: swaggered, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Weighed In
...I took my mum to slimming world 
On every Tuesday night 
She’d get her finest glad rags on
And beam with sheer delight

Not much of an adventure,
On the way she’d barely speak.
But she’d set h......

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Categories: swaggered, food, health, humor, social,
Form: Rhyme
Apology To C Y Oconnor
...Coal-red eyes protruded from your bust
As we swaggered in mock-bravado.
We were afraid of you Charles
And the shadows you cast
From within cast shadows.

Chinese Apple replacing Adam's
And a terry-to......

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Categories: swaggered, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Bronwyn's Mate, Part I
...Bronwyn the Barbaric amassed admirers
like oceans collect river-flow
Streams of suitors all tried to woo her
each determined to be her “best beau”

But our fair pirate queen was a fickle young l......

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Categories: swaggered, animal, dog, fantasy, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Thanks
...It was at the National Finals Rodeo
The year was 1967, the place OKC
I had just turned three & 
was excited as could be
to be behind the chutes watching
a ride that could make history
Freckles ......

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Categories: swaggered, cowboy-western, history, life, nostalgia,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
As I Could
...I walked down the street today
As one would
Wearing my bright green shoes
As not everyone could
I held my head high
As not everyone should
I swaggered and strutted
As freedom deemed I could
W......

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Categories: swaggered, funny,
Form: Imagism
High Noon Antics
...High Noon Antics

High noon, the time was set upon this arid, sultry day
The guns would set against the other, quick-draw style
In speedy rivalry and bid to have their final say
With keen eyed r......

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Categories: swaggered,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry