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
At Heaven's Gate - Parts 1 and 2PART 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
MountainThe 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 PuppetsMastered 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 TumsMy 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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Categories:
swash, food, funny, me, me,
Form:
Light Verse
Madcap Happinesshappiness, 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 TideEBB 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
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
The Beach At Orca Praia Funchal MadeiraThe 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
Dancing Shimmy With JimmyMy 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
Torn Sun Rises In Japan~ ~ ~** ~ ~ ~ ** ~ ~ ~
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 - Contestclink 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
SuicideHere 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 PirateShiver 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
White ShouldersI 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 PirateShiver 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