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Best Swathing Poems

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Soul of Seaside Sepulchre

When the 
seaside sepulchre 
of a kingdom, 
without its queen, 
is smeared with 
screams of lighting, 
I wish to crackle
these slivers 
of silver shakle, 
and...

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Categories: swathing, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse



Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream...

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Categories: swathing, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Wildmoor Symphony
FIRST MOVEMENT (Minor Key)

Times such as these test body soul and mind
So should our thoughts be pain and dark confined
Or loosed to concentrate on brighter...

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Categories: swathing, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member March of the Reaper
Blue sky turning cobalt
Black cloak in the wind
A skeletal shape
Looking for the innocents sins

Ravens above
In frantic flight
Their master they chase
Decrepit delight

Scythe in swipe
Cutting and swathing
All...

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Categories: swathing, angst, faith, fantasyfear, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Hues
Drinking morning dews from grass; sun looks healthy,
Housing red yellow rays, sky looks lovely and pretty.

Mountain stands strong wearing deep green garment,
Within white Kans grasses,...

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Categories: swathing, seasons, winter,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Winter Wonderland
Soft she slips into the wood,
Garlanding brush and branches,
Spreading out her lovely cloak,
To cover posts and fences.

Now she drifts into the yard,
Making all things bright,
Swathing...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swathing, seasons, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Owl
Darkness enfolded me in an ebony blanket
Of soft nocturnal feelings, whispers of wisdom
Shading my world with blackest reminiscences
Gentle insights into reflections of a promise
Phenomenal grace...

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Categories: swathing, bird, blessing, old, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Gibbous Moon In Rhyme and Free Verse
Two-word Lines       Free
with Rhyme            Verse

gibbous moon  ...

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Categories: swathing, birth, death, moon, night,
Form: Quatrain
Ashes Might Go Down Easier
Once in a while -in a moment 

of immense sulfurous clarity, when 

every grace I locked in my dilated pupils

begins to form lesions, yellow-running

tears through...

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Categories: swathing, recovery from..., sad
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Full Moon
A full moon 
Swathing white light
The illuminating ethereal fire
Rests upon and rest beneath
Amidst a midnight forest
Where silence calms the restless trees
The unearthly glow has a...

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Categories: swathing, life, light, moon,
Form: Free verse
Harvest of Verbs
HARVEST  OF  VERBS




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Categories: swathing, autumn,
Form: Shape
Beneath Death's Dark Veil
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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A careless Swathing of Death's face- pale
Burn the images and erase the memories
Bury the lies beneath Death's dark veil

Dig deep- finding secrets...

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Categories: swathing, allegory, death, fear, dark,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Tale of the Winter's Breath
Blanketing the earth in a frosty glistening
Beckoning to the heart – wonders so breathtaking,
Lifting the spirits with flakes like glitter, lustrous
Silence, gentling the thoughts and...

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Categories: swathing, beautiful, nature, peace, seasons,
Form: Metrical Tale
Common Thread....
Fabric of the universe,
has weaved all within it's nature
upon looms from spindles,spinning wheels
beginning with a single thread........

Connecting all in purposeful suit
appropriate uniformity
serving one,to serve the...

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Categories: swathing, life, mystery, nature, universe,
Form: Free verse
Lockdown
We can’t go out so what to do?
How do we spend our time?
Imagination, racing thoughts
My brain on overtime.

There’s gardening, painting, DIY
Non urgent jobs to do,
They’re...

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Categories: swathing, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs