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Best Swards Poems

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When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night...

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Categories: swards, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Mysteries of Human Hairs
Mysteries of Human Hairs
Hairs, O’ hairs, O’ lovely ravishing hairs,
Fascinating and beautiful, you often resemble,
When nicely looked after and  softly taken care of.

Your beauty...

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Categories: swards, imagination, life, love, mystery,
Form: Ode
Sorrow Springs In Black Savannah
SORROW SPRINGS IN BLACK SAVANNAH
By Immaculata Ortner

Sorrow springs in black savannah
Where nature proved its pride
Silence sting like ancient drone
As dark melody rose 
Winging high in...

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Categories: swards, fear, slavery, sorrow, war,
Form: Elegy
Mysteries of Human Hairs Ii of Ii
Mysteries  of Human Hairs   II

Hairs, O hairs, O’ lovely   ravishing hairs,
It is also a hard truth of the world and
Of...

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Categories: swards, life, love, passion, hair,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Spotlight
swards of wildflowers
dance with the hot sultry breeze…
welcome the moonbeam

© Harry J Horsman 2022...

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Categories: swards, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Words the Ship Melanie Dear Melanie Troubled Times Losstouch
Words
The ship

Words come to me like spring. 
They set free, they shed the shroud, 
open with all their glory, beauty and sing. 
They stand tall,...

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Categories: swards, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgotten Field of Forever
Written: April 14, 2024, For Silent One Forgotten Fields Contest

Rumi Verse: “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swards, analogy, fate, flower,
Form: Free verse
Reign Makes the World Go Round
water cradles embryonic fetus in utero until birth
   a necessary ingredient that fosters new born and also original life
heavens relinquish liquid pearl shaped...

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Categories: swards, history, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Reign Makes the World Go Round
water cradles embryonic fetus in utero until birth
   a necessary ingredient that fosters new born and also original life
heavens relinquish liquid pearl shaped...

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Categories: swards, allegory, dedication, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Isle
A blind flight
above a brooding sea.

Dawn levers the darkness.
Ireland rising.
Whitecaps, bright tumbled cliffs.
Briny turf, moss-rooted walls,
wind-havens and cottages.
So green!

Tidal meadows run to dewy swards.
Patchwork pastures...

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Categories: swards, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Dream and Reality
A dream and reality live on this Earth,
They don’t get along very nice:
They pull us in opposite ways from the birth,
In lulls and in turmoil...

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Categories: swards,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member The Wee Hours Sigh
In the middle of the night, I can hear your sigh.
Shouting to those who stare outside the azure sky.
Your scent instills to my soul a...

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Categories: swards, analogy, appreciation, beauty, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Mystic Bird
Mystic Bird
There she is, a friend at window,
Calling me for a ride amidst meadow
Pulling me out of labyrinth and duty,
Takes away from worries, amidst reverie,
A...

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Categories: swards, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Isle
A blind flight
above a brooding sea.
Dawn levers the darkness.
Ireland rising.
Whitecaps, bright tumbled cliffs.
Briny turf, moss-rooted walls,
wind-havens and cottages.
So green!
Tidal meadows run to dewy swards.
Patchwork pastures...

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Categories: swards, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs