Best Swaybacked Poems
Below are the all-time best Swaybacked poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swaybacked poems written by PoetrySoup members
Old BillIn Memory of Jimmy Dale Still, Barrel horse rider, KIA, Song Be, Viet Nam, 1/1/70
Old Bill,
swaybacked, sand burrs in his mane.
He stands no longer...
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Categories:
swaybacked, loss
Form:
Free verse
Avalanche PreoccupiedI think I get it:
You want me to swallow your acidic avalanche.
Those billion frantic snow globes
of brilliant-clownish confusion.
You want me to rebuild your burned-out shrines....
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Categories:
swaybacked, arabic, art, feelings, natural
Form:
Rhyme
The Barn In My Rear View MirrorPatchwork quilt of a metal roof,
with a hip-shot lean to the left.
Boards, weathered, to a storm cloud grey,
with remnants of red in the cracks.
Generations, hub...
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Categories:
swaybacked, nostalgiaold, red, old, red,
Form:
Couplet
Naked HorsesNaked horses
On the prairie, there are many horses, healthy stallions
galloping about impressing the coy mares.
Under a tree, there are not many trees on the grassland
a...
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Categories:
swaybacked, anti bullying, best friend,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Old Ruth and the PreacherThe traveling preacher would visit us on a monthly bases,
Unless an urgent need like a wedding, burial, or a birth to welcome new faces.
Most folks...
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Categories:
swaybacked, imagination, inspirationalgod, old, bible,
Form:
Couplet
A Horse With No NameSome were born to be show horses
pampered and highly fussed over
little work but many accolades
living for tin canned applause..
Some are born thoroughbreds.
living for glory...
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Categories:
swaybacked, analogy, horse,
Form:
Free verse