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Best Swayed Poems

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


Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: swayed, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Wandered Lonely As a Boat
"I wandered lonely as a cloud."  William Wordsworth


I wandered lonely as a boat   
a shallow dingy left behind,  
alone in marsh...

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Categories: swayed, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form: Lyric
The Garden That Lives On
The 
        old house
   from my memories 
 opens to a wide porch
adorned by mom with...

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Categories: swayed, garden,
Form: Concrete
Odd Od Dodo
Idyllically Odylically Odd I Be
                    ...

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Categories: swayed, appreciation, bird, introspection, society,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Fated as Couplets
The ignorant ones claim, 
I'm full of petty problems,
a slave to the darkness,
but if only they had seen 
how I've slaughtered 
malicious demonic sea creatures
that...

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Categories: swayed, feelings, miss you, myth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lilac Feathered Goodbye
I hope you would still remember me as we were,

every time you see pristine 

passing pomegranate hues of the horizon.

When clouds smear our unspoken love...

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Categories: swayed, break up, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To the Flower
TO THE FLOWER

Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.

Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...

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Categories: swayed, beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leaves Talking
Lovely golden red-tinged leaves seem lost in conversation,
Eloquently rustling as they flutter to the ground.
Autumn’s breeze is whispering to them a revelation.
Vanquished they are soon...

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Categories: swayed, autumn, sad,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Sweet Ghost Valentine
An old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.

A storehouse for so many...

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Categories: swayed, lost love, love, me,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member September Splendor
Nourished by garland skies of scarlet blue
And velvet grass in golden green festoon
September wed us; one heart, made of two

Days of turquoise kisses, too much,...

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Categories: swayed, butterfly, kiss, moon, romantic
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Making Friends
I walked out to a cottonwood
Who lives out in the hay
And since he had no livelihood
Decided I would stay

A root of his became my chair
He...

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Categories: swayed, friend, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Christmas in Paradise
One year,  over the ocean, Santa veered  off course
His reindeer were battling a hurricane  force. 
As the sleigh went  spinning and spiraling around,
 an  island appeared far below on the ground,
dotted with palms...

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Categories: swayed, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Seventies
I wore popular shin high white boots,
The top in rage of disco dancing queens.
The Bee Gees were the utmost in the clan
The alter of quantifying...

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Categories: swayed, fashion, grief, war,
Form: Rhyme
Our Colour of Yellow
The lake was still sleeping
a light mist rose above,
a weathered dock could be seen,
its aged wood; full of memories.

The air crisp, breeze light,
trees majestic; watching...

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© Lynn Marie  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swayed, happiness, inspirational, love, me,
Form: Free verse
If You Were Mine
If you were mine... 

If you were mine…our footsteps would   

dance on moonlit verandas
while candle lit shimmers enticed my smiled reflections
with your arms...

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Categories: swayed, good night,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things