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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


Premium Member 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



Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member The Flame
PROLOGUE
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
Premium Member The Moth
A 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



Premium Member A Clementine Duet
When 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
Premium Member 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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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sways, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Solo Pianist
Another 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Season of September
Sunlight 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Birthday Extravaganza: Lovely Roses On Your Special Day
Lovely Roses

                       ...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sways, birthday,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Karma
Yesterday, 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 Counted
A 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
Premium Member Weathered
Diminished 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

Book: Shattered Sighs