Best Swam Poems

“When Silence Swam on the Menu”



There is no past
There is no future
All there is, is the
Silence of Now


We move through the hours
day by day
soft-skinned vessels, souls gliding
flowing like water


In the swim
side by side
All as one
but One unknown


The menu changes daily
The unified constant
is the
Silence of Now


(Lovejoy-Burton,...

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I feel I’ve reached the age when
I start to see others fading away
The old get ill
The young get old
It’s as if I’m trying to
Grip water with my bare hands
No matter how hard I try,
It pours out and leaves
A transparent stain on my skin
My grandmother’s voice...

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i will stop the tears
   this time won’t be a river
     i have swam enough

Heidi Sands

12/28/18...

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It was thought she was pregnant
confused as she was
and out of her depth.
They waded into the river to help.
They floated rubber rafts to buoy her up.
Marine experts posited ways 
to keep her breathing in shallow waters.

In dockyard pubs
hard men openly spoke of her plight,
voices low...

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We swam that day
morning light invite to that shore
Jumping, crashing, waves were smashing
engulfing us as we played
Shore line furthered
Suddenly further, undertow carried
carried me away

The waves, the current
I their victim 
took me deeper still
Overhead crashing, smashing
waves they crushed my chest
Defiantly fighting, swam strokes fighting
Fighting til my...

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It was thought the young whale was pregnant
confused as she was and out of her depth.

They waded into the river to help,
floated rubber rafts to buoy her up.
Marine experts posited ways
to keep her breathing in shallow waters.

In dockyard pubs
hard men openly spoke of her plight,
voices...

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Born wearing ballet shoes
without knowing,
far in the deep nature, 
in the Sakhalin Islands,
a ballet star opened his eyes
for the first time.

Warmed by the love of his
family, he grew up happy
until his life changed.
He travelled without ballet shoes to Riga, 
where he saw a new beginning,...

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There was a daredevil boy from Spain
 Who wanted to go to the USA by train,
 The train fell into the Ocean, 
 Causing a global commotion,
 So he swam across rather board a plane....

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