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Best Swash Poems

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


Premium Member At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2
PART 1:          THE MEETING

Alone one night neath lantern light, I trudged a weary mile.
Forlorn, I went...

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Categories: swash, fantasy,
Form: Ballad



Mountain
The airy mountain, lush and green, they call home
Perched on shaky rock, the waters beneath swash and foam
Goats graze, cattle feed, fields of corn and...

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Categories: swash, america, analogy, fate,
Form: tristich
Mastered Puppets
Mastered Puppets


Of the voices thrown and never shown their cries travel well
A starving sewn with a bitter bone of their life a quiet quell
With larval...

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Categories: swash, children, humanity, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Tums
My wife and I went for a cruise in the Caribbean Sea,
I decided that I would talk like a pirate ‘till she got sick of...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swash, food, funny, me, me,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Madcap Happiness
happiness, puppy-sweet, lapping at toes. the strumming of sea nymph shells. the laughter of intoxicated friends, slightly tipsy, imbibing in whites and reds, sharing spousal...

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Categories: swash, friendship, imagination,
Form: Haibun



Ebb Tide
EBB    TIDE


We’d had an angry tearful spat
Don’t remember over what:
Stormed out of house down to beach.      ...

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Categories: swash, allegory
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Pirate's Cove (Anaphora)
I like sailing on the high seas over crystal blue waters
I like seeing the waves rising and feeling the splash
I like sights of jolly pirates...

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Categories: swash, adventure, history, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Beach At Orca Praia Funchal Madeira
The beach at Orca Praia – Funchal Madeira

The powerful deep blue ocean
Expends its tidal force
Pounding down upon sea pebbles
With thud and smash so coarse

Watching from...

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Categories: swash, good morning, image, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dancing Shimmy With Jimmy
My lala mal flats is skinking like that
Shimmy, Jimmy, gimme some of that hat
We're fleshing and flexing, cheek to cheek
meshing, on do-own
Shimmy, little Jimmy will...

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Categories: swash, blue, dance, music, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Torn Sun Rises In Japan
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a torn sun once wholly wise, the kind that sparkled whistling eyes
now a broken porcelain...

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Categories: swash, hope, natural disasters, people
Form: Rhyme
Halloween Partytime - Contest
clink clunk the bones go clank
hanging there from the curtain rail
large pumpkin and shaping knife ready
it will be a great party time, without fail

when you...

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Categories: swash, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Suicide
Here I stand, upon a lonely cliff; 
Outcropped above glittering white-wash waves. 
The swash of the sea and the vivid smell 
Challenges my deepest inner...

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Categories: swash, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
This Morning I Woke Up a Pirate
Shiver me timbers
What's going on
I was dressed as a pirate 
When I woke up this morn

I looked in the mirror
And let out an Arrrr....
I came...

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Categories: swash, funny, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member White Shoulders
I am her child again...
I'm wearing my pink flannel pajamas, the ones with tiny roses.
I'm curled up in the middle of her big four-poster.
And watching...

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Categories: swash, childhood, love, motherchild, child,
Form: Free verse
Woke Up This Morning a Pirate
Shiver me timbers
What's going on
I was dressed as a pirate 
When I woke up this morn

I looked in the mirror
And let out an Arrrr....
I came...

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Categories: swash, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things