Best Swaggered Poems
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
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
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
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
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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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
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