Best Swanson Poems

I hear sounds of the wind hissing and rustling.
I listen on the beach to the waves cascading,
Slapping, tossing swashing the sand pebbles,
Something close to eternity...

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Captive damsel of creative-writing programs,   
Personalized, eulogized job of small groups,  
The frenetic activities handy to very few,  
Poetry now belongs...

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I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

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* Written for my daughter, who really does have a precious pair of Little Yellow Socks.

Little Yellow Socks
       by...

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Wind drinkers flow with strength and grace.
                Thunder pounds from...

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Broken Branch
         by Amy Swanson, 2008



Winter-gray tree branch
       Hangs low, stricken...

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This is for you, Mystic Rose,
The closest cyber encounter family tree, my spree
Harry Horsman, Sara K, summer's gone, let's haiku and play.
Achoo contest, butterflies, Parise...

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"Each experience is locked within my heart and only I hold the key..."



There was a time when Jess was young, that we thought we were...

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I light my candle from within the more I give to you,

An inner strength builds inside, it fills my empty soul,

The encompassing love present when...

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I can see the past glory, though it is humble now and all the more reverent....


With thoughts of deep ocean bliss,
that comes with fading hope,
I...

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I was going through some boxes,
that were packed-up years ago.
Thinking I could throw away some stuff,
How much I didn't know.

A lot of it just made...

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Ode to Chocolate   :)
     by Amy Swanson  12/15/2008


          ...

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Deck of cards
Aces, Kings, Queens, Jacks, tens to twos, Jokers
Can society not be balanced as deck with equal no of Haves and Have nots ?...

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Words . . . written in brilliant lines

In passionate flamboyant rhymes

In Free verse, Haiku or Pantoum,

Etheree, Quatern, or 7/5 Trochee . . .

It matters not...

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Poetry is... Art
       by Amy Swanson



Poetry comes in all

shapes
sizes
colors
surprises
varieties
lengths
flavors
styles


About all kinds of

feelings
thoughts
emotions
moods
people
foods
societies
animals
nature


It can be

long
short
rhyme
prose
haiku
quatrain
free verse
narrative
sonnet
footle
senryu
tanka
epulaeryu
.... and so many more-!


Poetry's...

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