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Best Swampy Poems

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


One Square Mile
In one square mile, northeast of Noojee,
there are seven birds that I often get to see
as I walk on the tracks in pristine forestry,
in one...

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Categories: swampy, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Black Magic Woman
Madame Mistress, ebonies princess,
Southern comforts golden jewel,
A golden beauty down south does dwell.
She hides many secrets beneath her,
Glittering mask of mystery's mystic spells.
A dark priestess...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swampy, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Worshipping In Nature's Sanctuary
Johnny-Jump-Ups nestle into the forest floor mosses,
Along with dainty Jack-in-the-Pulpits hiding beneath
The larger fronds of swampy ferns soaking up moisture
From the dew-laden flowering branches of...

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Categories: swampy, inspirational, nature, paradise, peace,
Form: Blank verse
Movements of Beginnings
written on time’s page
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Categories: swampy, history, philosophy, political
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Satin Winged Flowers
Satin Winged Flowers ...by Carrie Richards  and Poet Destroyer

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Let's watch how they cluster in whirlwind ballets, 
lifting like clouds from the dark swampy ground....

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Categories: swampy, insect, nature, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member School's Out
Trying to recapture the joy of those winter days is difficult. School cancelled: sun shining through the sheer, white, curtains into an all too girlie...

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Categories: swampy, kiss, snow,
Form: Haibun
Santa In Florida
Santa in Florida

By Elton Camp

In Florida, Christmas ain’t so grand
Santa’s sleigh won’t slide on sand
And not many children there stay
Most of the folks are old...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swampy, funnyold, old,
Form: Rhyme
The Pieces of Peace
The pieces of peace were handpicked
Picked in the heart of the night 
Shredded for an aspiration 
To clutch the lone torch contained by the dark
A...

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Categories: swampy, political,
Form: Light Verse
The Ventriloquist Voice
Thousand thoughts rummage the grey fluff.
Gloomy, godawful voices thump in self-talk
"I'm an idiot, a loser,...... it's all my fault".
Autopsies of the past, tear my flesh,
Regrets...

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Categories: swampy, confidence, conflict, courage, fear,
Form: Free verse
The Legendary Kingdom of Florida
You can almost swim across large parts of Florida, swim and
walk a few steps and then plunge again into the cool sexual
embrace of yet another...

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Categories: swampy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Willard Creek
On Willard Creek, a marsh does lay, 
upon a soft soliloquy of a dormant day...

The moss medusa within her array,
spreads a garden green for our...

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Categories: swampy, butterfly, nature, river,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member If the Gods Love Us
Pray, if the Gods love us all so much
Why is it that they never do open the skies up
And save us?

Why is it that they...

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Categories: swampy, angst, anxiety, emo, faith,
Form: Free verse
Crazy Mick
Crazy Mick the Irishman, with trademark bike and overcoat,
wheeling his way back into town, classed as a tarnished silly goat.
His hair was long and curly;...

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Categories: swampy, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Baba Yaga
An eerie mist spreads across the swampy moors,
At midnight's tolling hour, beware peasant or royal,
Whom travels the hidden roads and lost by ways, lit
From the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swampy, adventure, fantasy, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Electromagnetic Radiation the Mist In Decay
Electromagnetic Radiation

Secretly – unbeknownst to me – you were holding out a light
of hope for me to see, to reach for, to bask in, some...

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Categories: swampy, visionary, me, sorry, faith,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs