Best Sways Poems
Below are the all-time best Sways poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sways poems written by PoetrySoup members
My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs
There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured...
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Categories:
sways, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
Amidst the Darkened Veils'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment
the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...
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Categories:
sways, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
FOREVER ADELINE - Narrated by Poetry Soup Poet - SAM SCOTT
FOREVER ADELINE
Acknowledgement:
A big thank you Sam Scott from our Poetry Soup Community,
for your splendid narrative contribution.
Synopsis:
A story of unrequited love that...
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Categories:
sways, lost love, romantic,
Form:
Narrative
The FlamePROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets
...
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Categories:
sways, life, light,
Form:
Rhyme
The MothA lone moth flits around my front porch light
as wind blows through my window, luring me
to step outside into black velvet’s night.
I search the sky,...
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Categories:
sways, lost love,
Form:
Sonnet
A Clementine DuetWhen tuscan tunes of twilight,
cascade as clementine confetti,
She searches for secret silhouettes,
swirling to the symphony
of sunflower serenades.
In the midst of faded fields,
marigold memories...
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Categories:
sways, earth, emotions, moon, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Wabi-Sabi
Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.
Dreadful...
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Categories:
sways, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The Solo PianistAnother Sunday evening at the street-corner
next to the coffee parlour, overlooking the ocean
The solo pianist with desert-lime eyes
sits once-again on the piano chair.
His hair,a...
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Categories:
sways, absence, emotions, music,
Form:
Free verse
The Zebra Mystique
I want to ride a zebra
and race the rays of radiance
through heat-waves’ sailing gradients -
...
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Categories:
sways, adventure, animal, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Season of SeptemberSunlight falls in breezy dapples
across your lichened stone,
solace now I seek in chapel’s
old yard while we’re alone.
It brings my heart back, being here -
love; that...
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Categories:
sways, appreciation, autumn, grave, grief,
Form:
Lyric
tied to the moon
when air-brushed stars croon..
my soul sways, tied to the moon
lost in twinkling tune
seeking for rose light
from plum reveries tonight~
questioning twilight..
am I not fine art
metered...
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Categories:
sways, deep,
Form:
Senryu
Categories:
sways, birthday,
Form:
Concrete
KarmaYesterday, I followed her true invisible form
Colors turning a kaleidoscopic deep and warm
A state of mind, that makes reality feel alive
Stabbing moments that teach how...
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Categories:
sways, bullying, conflict, life, universe,
Form:
Couplet
For Things Once CountedA light across a river sways,
where children wasted summer days.
Not near, not far, but in between,
the grass grows soft and tall and green.
The whispers dance...
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Categories:
sways, introspection, loss, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
WeatheredDiminished by age, a weathered existence limps
Crutching dimmed vision and impaired limbs,
Much wiser that before, it speaks wisdom words
Entertaining grandkids in stories that enlighten,
Wishing the...
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Categories:
sways, age, old,
Form:
Free verse