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Premium Member Swallowed By the Moon
*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,...

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Categories: swallowed, beautiful, light, love, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member swallowed by the night -
the heavens yawn a sea of suns above me
          each shining gem to countlessly attest
               to how I conned her barren heart...

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Categories: swallowed, analogy, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Swallowed Death
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...

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Categories: swallowed, death, loss,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



The Cat That Swallowed the Hat
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...

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Categories: swallowed, lifecat,
Form:
The Boy Who Swallowed the Sea
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."...

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Categories: swallowed, child, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Swallowed a Bug
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...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swallowed, fun,
Form: Limerick



Floods Swallowed My Beamer
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...

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Categories: swallowed, best friend, car, creation,
Form: Ballad
The Night Swallowed Whole
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...

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Categories: swallowed, absence, anger, character, children,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swallowed
"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...

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Categories: swallowed, courage, future, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Swallowed Arsenic, It's Fine
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,...

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Categories: swallowed, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
I Swallowed a Fire Fly
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...

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Categories: swallowed, passion, fire, fire,
Form: Imagism
River Ethiope Has Swallowed Another Big Fish
River Ethiope has swallowed another big
                                       ...

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Categories: swallowed, adventure, africa, beach, bereavement,
Form: Personification
Swallowed the Lie
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...

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Categories: swallowed, corruption, society,
Form: Couplet
A Swallowed Cry
A Swallowed Cry

                                  The dawn is smothered in haze as I
 ...

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Categories: swallowed, devotion, friendship, husband, loss,
Form: Lyric
Just Swallowed It Hole
I just swallowed it hole
the whole
hole is gone
down the gullet
round the bend
debarked
embarked
set sail for deeper seas
in my heart
head...nostrils are in fact holes 
but not the one I swallowed whole...

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Categories: swallowed, anger,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things