Best Swat Poems
Below are the all-time best Swat poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swat poems written by PoetrySoup members
How Do You Like Them ApplesComing from Texas, I knew he’d be loud
And soon I discovered that two is a crowd
Is that the privy? he asked of my house
When he...
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Categories:
swat, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Baseball CardAnd there you were -
blue cap and jersey, white pants
bat held high above the shoulder
cocked and ready to swat one out
in that perfect stance...
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Categories:
swat, baseball, son,
Form:
Free verse
Batter Up, No LongerFrom outfield judging eyes await your plight,
though sweat and stupor feign to your ruin.
Now pull up your trousers, cinch your belt tight...
glaring down from...
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Categories:
swat, allegory, crush, endurance, passion,
Form:
Sonnet
The 4 Seasons
Winter is very cold
the wind is bold
snowman made the centerfold
brown snow is old.
Spring is in the air
flowers now blooming...
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Categories:
swat, animal, cool, fun, snow,
Form:
Rhyme
Black-Water BluesDiz Cajonne dey call Thibodaux
Paddle dis girl in his Pirogue
Den he see dem unmention
Dad tool stan at attention
She slap him stick HARD doncha' know
Dad pole...
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Categories:
swat, funny,
Form:
Limerick
Displaced In KathmanduOur dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its...
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Categories:
swat, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form:
Haibun
Play BallI have attempted to capture my favorite major league baseball players in this little shape poem of home plate. Included are (in no particular order):
Say...
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Categories:
swat, baseball,
Form:
Shape
The FlyNOTE: Some of you seemed to enjoy my stories from the past. Of course, posting this in the story folder is tantamount to burying it...
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Categories:
swat, angst, humor,
Form:
Prose
Sweet Little LadyMany insects creep upon this earth,
and hardly anyone refers to them as “nice”
or writes a poem reflecting on their worth!
Spiders sometimes make me jump as...
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Categories:
swat, cute, insect,
Form:
Rhyme
By Now You Have Forgot' - To Whom It May Concern - Part 2Continued from Part 1
“Upon your knees in golden naves, while...
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Categories:
swat, men, time, war,
Form:
Monorhyme
It's Mine All MineHey! Get lost wasp you are a pesky swine
This cherry ice cream is mine ALL mine
You buzz around and make my life hell
Look - this...
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Categories:
swat, food, humorous, insect,
Form:
Couplet
In Memory of Grumpy CatIt is so hard to say goodbye. The end has come.
I knew it would . . . someday....
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Categories:
swat, childhood,
Form:
Elegy
Chopped Iii-Suicidal Dick'sThe Playbill for the 9/8/01 show at Godspeed Opera House falls from my palm to the floor. Here I sit, with a drugged hangover...
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Categories:
swat, mystery, drug,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The HouseflyI chased that thing all morning
But he always got away
He must have found a hiding place
Somewhere safe to stay
He was on the kitchen table
Then on...
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Categories:
swat, funny
Form:
Rhyme
The RavingFrom 2010. Narrator is Robert Gibbs, snooty White House Press Secretary.
Lay, O Lord, a curse on press men, rude and churlish, sad, obsessed men
Who...
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Categories:
swat, hip hop, parody, raven,
Form:
Narrative