Best Swallow Poems

With mouth open wide
I swallow whole the moon
hoping to feel the tides
deep within the womb
of my feminine side
allow this man to bloom.
Pregnant with ideas
I am giving birth to poems.
These rocks, rivers and trees
are all my native homes,
a glossy jagged marble
to sanctify these bones.
So look above...

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Turning and dipping in graceful, acrobatic flight,
my spirit soars against a sky brilliantly blue;
from these heights, I view life in its completeness,
its complex boundaries and limitations sharply defined.
I maintain my composure, calm and unruffled by the storms . . .
I sail above the strife where...

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"Swallow A Smile"


                 When it first started 
       which would be impossible to trace,
      we've accepted the fact...

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southwards
to the sun-
follow the light,
annual migration's
begun-
nomads
of nowhere,
without a care
baggage,passports or cheap
airfare...

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I Force My Drink, Dark Poison To Swallow

Chastise me in my deep, darkest sorrow,
young lad of hopes and meandering streams.
I long for relief now not tomorrow,
or next year in lost fields of shallow dreams.

My goblet of pain it over floweth,
into forests of low hanging black...

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fork-tailed azure crown 
breed wolfs down trumpet creepers
they dive bomb red kites


Date created : 17 August 2020
 
NB
Trumpet vine / creepers nectar source for voracious bird.
Dive bomb as in bluff for deterring other species....

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With blood shot eyes, I heed my own cries.
The taste of her will remain, killing the pain.
So much blood I swallow, on death's road I follow.
My ash blows away, yet by her side I stay.
The end is so near, but she still fights my fear.
There...

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Ask a swallow why he nests
below the edge where daylight shuns
catching insects sheriffs fail to warn blue
doctrines stones emit the scent between
evisceral guardians thoughts intact
feign judgements eliptical repast upon our
gains as men can see the folly laws oblige your
honor swears red moon's deputy witheld
injustice paints...

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When sunset bows amidst the hilltops,
My warble coos on fields;
And through the ever- glowing night
This womb of nest I keep,
Where flappers reel like tints of sky
A mix of white and cobalt -blue,
To guide oak trees from silhouettes
Against the rail of grass.

The seasons house me with...

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The Horn of Africa is where I am from.
I am just a simple woman with her children.
Lord God is our seeker and natural disaster will come.
I must conserve my last drop of water.

I see the sunrise high in the east.
In bottles, water exists.
I know that...

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There was a thrill seeker named Biff
 Who got married on a cliff
 Honeymooned  in Niagra
 Overdosed on Viagra
 Now the poor fella's  a stiff

 4-27-2015...

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I know a very special young girlie
Who's caught me by the short curlys
Known her for years
Much joy and some tears
I'll never stop loving her surely

Promised that I'd love her forever
From the first day knew that I'd never
Betray her not a chance
It's a lifetime dance
This love's...

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the barn swallow swoops
onto a large hay bale
startling the owl...

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I Swallowed,

My Bitterness,

Down With Pride, 

If I Said,

"It Tasted Great,"

I Would Have Lied, 

Hate Got Stuck,

In My Throat,

Next,

To Regrets,

I Drank Last Night, 

None Of These Pills,

Were Good For Me, 

I Had To Play,

Referee, 

"Foul Play,"

Was My Call,

As My Tongue,

Began To Loll,

With Much Distaste,

I Swallowed,

It All.

(Vickie...

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Beside the Zhuque Bridge wild flowers bloom lonely, 
On the Wuyi Alley the setting sun beams serenely. 
The swallows that once nested in halls of the noble,
Have now flown into the simple homes of the humble.
(tran.)...

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