Best Swallowed Poems
*Super Moon 3/20/19
I was swallowed by the moon
Its brightness captured me
It hadn’t come too soon
Needing light to consume me
And so it did, from a dark winter night
My soul moved to and fro
With its endless moon path in sight
Glimmering all over the snow
Nothing but a lift, pulled me above
From the place where I stood
Igniting my heart with love
Like nothing else could
Heidi Sands
3/21/19
I wade the waterside enticing death.
The sea extols the brash to th’ outermost
Abyss. A ‘know it all’, I challenged this
Watery host.
I capsized in the tumultuous seas;
I’m in the heart of the abyssal deep.
The billowing waters; they crest and fall,
Enmesh and sweep.
Disjointed and astray from sight, I strive
Complacently for that redemptive shoal.
This mortuary that’s surrounding me
Entombs my soul.
I look toward the surface as I scan
The depth of darkness for some tethered hope.
I clutch my hands into the obvious
End of my rope.
The moorings are beyond my grasp. I gasp
And struggle for air as I hold my breath.
The hint is clear enough; I closed my eyes
And swallowed Death.
The hat in the cat, that swallowed it whole
Then jumped in my arms, and he started to grow....
A cain for his paw and taps for his shoes
He then leaned over and whispered
"But have you heard the news?"
I opened my eyes and I lifted my head
Yet the cat was not there; it was a dream, I said
Still what was this news as I climbed out of bed
And opened the blinds, but the trees were all dead....
I looked to my left, then I looked to my right
Not a sound could be heard; I could find no life!?
Jumped in the shower and brushed my teeth
Put on my suit, and then, there appeared a wreath....
But what does it mean, I thought, and what was this dream?
As I stepped out my door, unto a desolate scene ~
I got in my car and I started to drive
Thought to myself, am I the only Soul that's alive?
I drove and drove until the day turned to night
Never passing nor seeing not even one life....
I began to weep as I lowered my eyes, slowly down
Tears upon my cheeks, which fell silent to the ground
Yet then, I heard a voice which spoke softly in my ear....
So I lifted my and I swallowed my tears ~
Tears within my vision that made it ever so clear
Like the cat within my dream, that whispered
"Oh, but the time is so near"....
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....“The Cat, That Swallowed The Hat?!”
Written: October 28, 2025
I press my palm against your shoulder,
dust-streaked and aged
You unfold before me.
Heat rises from the folds
between the tendon and the tender dough.
I savor a bite of the dough.
reminiscent of the stars I once folded,
now scattered,
akin to lost receipts
in a tempest.
I arrive with my stained skin, as a flyer
marred by hurried typos,
hastily printed
by a restless intern.
Here, I consume you wholly.
A vendor presents grief in palm-sized parcels,
with you wrapped in sensational headlines
That twists the truth.
I swallow every piece of you,
even the mustard staining the captions.
But then the rain begins—my likeness of you blurs,
my ink a wing in flight as a winged creature.
A man in uniform smiles and brushes
the sugar from my scalp
casting it into the tide, a final farewell.
I once had a friend
who swallowed the sea,
with a thirst so great
it was awesome to see.
Gulping down water,
in large mouthfuls he drank.
Then into the sea,
I was pushed and I sank!
Sitting on a sea turtle,
I yelled up, "Please stop!
I'm sorry I poured
pepper sauce in your pop."
There once was a man who swallowed a bug
Put his hand in his mouth and started to tug
He hemmed and he hawed
Even pulled out a saw
Now he smiles with only one tooth on his mug
I loved it very dear
A unique find it was
I drove it very far
Without any fear
Driving was pleasure
Travelling in, a pride
Its presence a delight
That many saw in awe
It was a fairy in white
Darting across milestones
Skimmed on Highways
Carrying family to places
Safely, surely and quickly
It sped with grace and gleam
It made many turn heads
To see it in motion, a poetry
It was a beauty to behold
To possess, though, it was dear!
Yet I saw it drown, in my house
When floods came by; untold
I had to part with my luv, my BMW
Considered as next only to my wife
Whatever lovely association ended
And my Beamer suddenly disappeared.
The night passes onward
The fear of sleeping, like a coward
The dark past is drilled into the back of his mind
Just wish he could go back and rewind
Back through the broken hourglass overflowing with the sands of time
He can’t drown his demons, they know how to swim
As the moon aligns higher in the sky, he knows he can’t win
The mental scars that infiltrate his tattooed kingdom of a body
The feeling of being unworthy…. A nobody….
Fills his decimated circuits of impending memories
To the point of impact so all he sees
Is his former hero of a father unleashing a beating
But don’t you see the night is young… This is only the beginning
The beginning of the night terrors storming his head
Years will pass by, but he will never forget
Forget about the hell he faced during childhood
He would rather forget if he could
He is the King throughout the day
Portraying the mask of confidence and happiness with every sway
But when the sun goes down
So does his confident crown
An insomniac is born & swallowed whole by the night
The weariness & sleeplessness gets too hard to fight
Here is where the war of dark memories commence
And reality at that point makes no sense
The unconscious screaming & frantic movements scurry through the night
Then the awakening sudden frights strike
Strike the mind, with the body sweating from the battles waging on
So he drowns his fears with the lyrics of his favorite songs
To block out all the dark memories sieging his castle of dreams
He falls to his knees
His crown falls to the ground
He looks out to the stars until they fall
The sun rises & the cycle restarts
He is a dreamer full of fear
Waiting for the next night terror
He will sit upon his throne until the sun sets once again
Because it is those dark sickening memories he could never forget
As he closes his eyes at night
He returns back to the time, when he was a kid living in complete darkness full of fright.
That is when he feels trapped inside.
Like a labyrinth chained to the burden with no place to run or hide
Only left alone with a terror filled mind……
"Swallowed"
Swallowed
in the belly of the whale
epiphany rips my waves
more than a stone ripples 5
12 disciples
bare feet floating on yesterday’s grave
walk on water
Survive
Swallowed
in the belly of the whale
epiphany rips my waves
saltwater tears taste
an elixir
Communion of the Brave
A wake
Awake
Wave
(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)
"The Test" / The Chemical Brothers
https://youtu.be/yhS9LnDoo_w
Lyrics:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/chemicalbrothers/thetest.html
"Je reviendrai pour réclamer mon enfance perdue dans la prochaine vie"
the orange of the burning house
is the most comforting color i've seen in years
it's better than the red that's been coming out
of my eyes and nose and ears
as a compulsive liar and a pyromaniac
i know a thing or two about hell
oh yeah, i'm doing fine, i've never cracked
and i've never been so well
i'm blowing all my energy
on hypothetical drugs
who needs TV
when you've got a bucket filled with bugs
I Swallowed a Fire Fly
Birds of words perched
On branches of life
Love streamed from mind
Like a melody.
It's getting dark
A soccer game of fertility
Hot rain and plough furrow,
Seeds in labor pain
A fire fly flying around.
Volcanic ashes shroud love
Desert storm howling over life
I sitting on the window sill
Enmeshed branches of blood streams.
Fire fly buzzes around me
Deeply irritated
I stretched at
An unnatural angle
And swallowed the fire fly.
Later to come to know
The fly was the burning ember
My soul rotating while revolving
In it's fixed orbit, preordained.
River Ethiope has swallowed another big
fish
River Ethiope has swallowed another big
fish
She waves her tail large the size of her
teeth
River Ethiope has swallowed a big
fish
Her hungry is a mystery
feed
Her fangs cold like her broad
hips
She is a regurgitating
beast
chews her cods
slowly
she raises her prey up down
up again and down then up
the third time and. finally chews
after some days in the belly
vomit it prey
stiff
stilled
ill
many forgotten souls lie beneath her. deep
River Ethiope has hijacked another student
Like a hawk she dives prickly
On its prey at a glance sweeps like cyclone and steals
At the brink
of her mouth another
Final year scholar she drinks who
Gone to be with the swim
is gone into
thin air only to be seen
days later on
top of her skin white, stiff still
Eyes pop out.
River Ethiope is a. beast
She never get filled
River Ethiope is found in Niger Delta area
Located in Ethiope East, Delta state in Nigeria
This poem is based on a true life story
With close personal experience
In my university days,
Delta State university , Abraka
5/6/2020
A Swallowed Cry
The dawn is smothered in haze as I
watch the sun wrap with wings of gold
I swallow a swallowed cry.
As I watch his soul melt within the clouds
my memory lingers of our two intertwining
hearts sharing silk kisses I swallow
A swallowed cry.
Nature is laughing with sweet serenades
as I listen with the anchor of my soul.
My heart is tangled inside, Still waters run
deep, As broken promises lies my paradise
my friendship is for keeps, yet you should
Know I swallow a swallowed cry.
Stones,
Mortar, and brick
Nowhere to turn without feeling sick, stoned
To my stomach
A bottomless pit
Unheard, smothered by a thousand succinct voices' verbose drone
Speaking as they spew toxic, putrid bile in the pit of my stomach
Plummeting, swirling dizzily in circles - a cyclone - cyclically, alone
Booming, the whispering silence of lucidity's susurrate disruption weighs heavily on my thoughts, placidly as it sits
Like boulders, slowly sinking deeper into quicksand - the bottomless pit of my stomach
Swallowed by immovable, inescapable stones,
Mortar, and brick
Are you not aware of this flailing virus,
This erroneous contagion of mass manipulation,
This corrupt monetary infliction that has enslaved us,
This pervasive forge toward death and destruction?
Awake, awake! End the illusory dream
You have swallowed the lie,
A deadly cocktail in your bloodstream,
A numbing mirage has caught your eye.
I wonder, if a silent revolution
could be effective
Could it restore a global humanity?
Could it be our future is not elective
In the face of universal depravity?