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Best Swamped Poems

Below are the all-time best Swamped poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swamped poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Gods of Winds
Notus comes creeping furtively from the south
hot and bothered from the blazing summer sun.
The wind of change...concealed it launches sudden storms
as clouds pile up across...

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Categories: swamped, wind,
Form: Verse



Geneva Has Evolved
"Fragments and crumbs of life, 
                   ...

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Categories: swamped, 3rd grade, child, dad,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Mayan Declared
The year is 2025
I have come back to my past
To witness the Mayans
Who said Earth would not last

2012
Was the year they declared
That the planet we...

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Categories: swamped, angst, death, fantasy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Are You Really Dead
Are You Really Dead

Well you once marched into my old life
and started putting my dreams down.
Your love was smiles, kisses and strife
and in black seas...

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Categories: swamped, art, dark, death, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror Mirror
Mirror mirror on the wall 
Please tell me why I always fall
When I try to do something that will build me up 
Then suddenly lose motivation and...

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Categories: swamped, change, character, dedication, growing
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Swear a Sincere Oath Each Arriving New Morn
I Swear A Sincere Oath Each Arriving New Morn

Amidst wreckage and sorrows dwelling deep
I fight to beautiful memories keep
To break dark that threatens to engulf...

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Categories: swamped, appreciation, art, creation, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Very Rude Haiku
Very Rude Haiku

Winter? 3 lines?....Right! ....

5-7-5 cadence, meter 

I don't think so!...Blah!   

          ...

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Categories: swamped, fun, rude,
Form: Haiku
Brody and Quint
This old sea-rig is swamped and don't float
I TOLD you we'd need a bigger boat!
Now you are HIS prize
Sure ain't no surprise
That you're fish-food, you...

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Categories: swamped, adventure, funny
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Humanity Canteen
Humanity Canteen

My restaurant is exclusive and classy no paupers allowed though I
have to declare that I picked up the chef near the township where
on a...

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Categories: swamped, humanity,
Form: Free verse
A Semantic Shield
A kind of cultural sensitivity,
that strengthens discovery; a space
for identity and history.

  It’s a style of thought,
  chosen to highlight its core;
 ...

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Categories: swamped, life,
Form: Narrative
Zika Virus End Within Sight
Zika Virus End Within Sight

For far too long we have been at the mercy of tiny little creatures from hell..
Specialised  tormentors that seek and...

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Categories: swamped, community, encouraging, environment, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Worth While Wednesday
Major misery must have been mounting on Monday.
The traffic jam miraculously DIDN'T end until terrific Tuesday.
The traffic at 4pm was winding way westward which was...

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Categories: swamped, anxiety, basketball, car, celebration,
Form: Alliteration
The First Argument
With the onset of earth
man became birthed
perplexed, he pondered his purpose
swamped with wildlife
fish and birds rife
am I meant to run a circus?

I'll need entertainers
and animal...

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Categories: swamped, humorous, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
The Old Summer Camp
In the green Adirondack foothills lies
the haven of our old summer camp,
once a place of adventure and outdoor joy,
and the loud cries of precocious scamps,
their...

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Categories: swamped, childhood, lost, remember, sad,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member Loss of a Brother
I am eighteen months,
to the day,
younger than he.

We have two sisters,
both younger than we.

To lose our only brother
leaves three sisters
cast adrift in a head sea,
swamped...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swamped, brother, courage, death, faith,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things