Best Swan Poems
Below are the all-time best Swan poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swan poems written by PoetrySoup members
Swan Ballerina PagesLike delicate white swans were they,
the white swans of a grand ballet -
ballerinas waiting in a row
underneath the candlelight’s soft glow.
But what are ballerinas with...
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Categories:
swan, poetess, poetry,
Form:
Personification
The SwanThe Swan
Feathers floating in the wind
Perform in slow motion,
Each drift into the shadows of yesterday
She is not me -- She is not you!
A theme,...
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Categories:
swan, beautiful, romantic, wife,
Form:
Free verse
May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...
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Categories:
swan, beautiful, peace, star,
Form:
Verse
The StoneThe tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
swan, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form:
Ballad
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on...
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Categories:
swan, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Ethereal"At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come then, I'll sit up and sing. That cannot now be said...
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Categories:
swan, assonance, death, loss,
Form:
Alliteration
Crying RiverCrying River (The Untold Ballad)
Undercover waters of rain dash
Cold children, no smiling splash
Tragic sobs, epic force of the mountain rain
Beautiful as it may seem...
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Categories:
swan, beautiful, cry, deep, freedom,
Form:
Ballad
Diamond Cut"A Broken Demo"
In a desperate cry for help
She hires every jeweler
A cheap sheep crying, Wolf!
Using old repeating politic
utilizing lies * manipulation
To cover the Glass...
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Categories:
swan, abuse, evil, leadership, political,
Form:
Free verse
I Am Not BraveHow brave the amaryllis is
emerging naked from the soil,
an umber golden spear to pierce
the heresy of August air.
I am not brave like pilgrim bulbs,
though planted...
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Categories:
swan, color, flower, metaphor, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
Fall of the Willow's LeafAh, weeping leaf I feel your grief
as Autumn hides the sun in clouds;
battalion’s shadow, like a thief,
disguised in dark-sky nimbus shrouds
have...
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Categories:
swan, angst, autumn, conflict, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Body Songmy fingertips
touch ...
tender, but with melodic intent
you tremble
just SO ...
and sigh sweetly
the delightful answer
to my questioning hands
a gentle press ...
your supple curves against me
fitting me...
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Categories:
swan, analogy,
Form:
Free verse
Titanium QuillI am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior
kite-surfing through
heinous waves,
knitting cobalt chronicles
...
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Categories:
swan, courage,
Form:
Free verse
Here, Again: the Autumn EquinoxWritten for the Avebury Gorsedd, 24th September 2016
I wish you well...
I’m here, again…
Come riding in, upon the western wave
My hair all wove with...
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Categories:
swan, autumn, england, myth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Yes Dear LolYES DEAR!
I have here an old solution
For conflict resolution
Not to mention domestic pollution
I say 'Yes Dear!'
When the situation is tense
With a subject like pounds...
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Categories:
swan, humor, marriage,
Form:
Rhyme
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...
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Categories:
swan, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse