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Best Sway Poems

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


Premium Member Natures Gift
It's how the stars are lit at night
     and how the dew drops glisten
     How evening shadows...

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Categories: sway, blessing, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Like Ice --- the Waltz
"Black Ice"

Sorrow flows from the first sunrise 
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before 
At core death awaits
   -...

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Categories: sway, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Sundown Meditation
Take a deep breath
Let yourself relax
Close your eyes
Come with me

Inhale
Exhale

Let me guide you
I’ll take you on a magical journey

Give in to the moment
Relax
Breathe
Close your eyes

You’re...

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Categories: sway, adventure, freedom, journey, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Park Bench
The Park Bench

I wish I was a poet
With magical words
To make people see all of the absurd
Tears fly, paintings in pastel die

When we look into...

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Categories: sway, art, beauty, inspirational, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: sway, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

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Categories: sway, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse
The Sacred Art of Dying
darkness come caress me now
and as I die I weep
my body lies here limp and 
cold 
I prepare myself for eternal 
sleep
a million miles of...

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Categories: sway, deathme, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Never Stop Dancing
I am the diamond
     that breathes 
     in your hands;
The fine lace to sway in
     breezes through windows
   ...

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Categories: sway, beautiful, dance, inspirational, joy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Dewdrops
You hang there on the rise of dawn
Bending twigs where you cling,
Glistening gems on sunlit lawn,
Where I greet you before you're gone,
Before my passions forlorn...

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Categories: sway, emotions, feelings, metaphor, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Watcher
I watched a weeping willow
Dancing with a summer breeze
A timeless dance of lovers
They'd rehearsed for centuries

The zephyr would excite her
With his warm southwesterlies
She'd gently sway...

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Categories: sway, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanilla Visions
When the 
  moon muses 
to the 
  melody of memories, 
roaming wisps 
   of vanilla gently 
flow through 
 ...

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Categories: sway, death, deep, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Star-Crossed - For Love of Day, For Love of Night
(this is a form called Swap Quatrain, where first
line's phrases swap in the last line of each stanza)

In shadows’ veils, at end of night,
sweet Moon...

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Categories: sway, may, moon,
Form: Personification
Southern Beauty
https://soundcloud.com/kentucky-gal/2014-09-27-09-15-43717a

How sweet is the southern beauty of a country rose blossom today.
Soft scents that float gently on the breeze through trees that sway.

With bare feet...

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© Mary Hoose  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sway, beauty, nature, peace,
Form: Couplet
Listen With Your Heart
Listen with your heart to the music that I play
It belongs to ethereal voices of the wind  and  of the rain.
It belongs to...

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Categories: sway, beautiful, fantasy,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member a crow command -
I be a common salty once
          no captain's bars, did bear
     ...

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Categories: sway, adventure, courage, history, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs