Best Sweat Poems


Premium Member Forged in Sweat and Blood

  	      Echoes of traditions deep
                  forged in sweat and blood

               Sounds of cannons booming weep
                   o’er tattered fields of mud  

               Freedom’s sons claim sacred ground
                   where horses’ hooves cry numb

               Ancient winds still bear the tune
                   plaintive shriek of fife and thrum

Premium Member Salt Water

When brainwaves strive against my need for sleep,
I exercise to help my mind calm down.
When pressures get so bad I want to weep,
I do yard work or jog a while through town.
A dear pet or a loved one's home going -
out come the tissues, dabbing at moist eyes.
When sharp pains jolt with an electric zing,
the crying helps the sting depressurize.
When I feel insignificant or small,
the ocean waves provide a balm for me.
When life's injustice casts a darkened pall,
I pray to God as sun sets on the sea.
   Salt water is the cure for anything:
   my sweat, my tears, the sea - to these I cling.


"The cure for anything is salt water: 
sweat, tears, or the sea"      ~ Isak Dinesen


written 14 Sep 2020
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Red Sweat

Your silence,
a stillness of alluring patience
seductive in it's resilience,
suspicious magnificence, 
unmatched beauty demanding vigilance
making this man rowdy and restless for your finesse,
distressed by this drama of love's test,

You're the only woman scratching this chest
with passion's raging arrest, nails of sharp zest,
the supreme Queen keeping me raw and hard, my only quest,
I'm confessing you are the best, the most luxuriant caress, my unhesitant request,

I want every feeling you're capable of conceiving Babe,
knowing and revering your eclectic emotions, your unspoken demands,
burning for your paradon and kiss, you will always know I am love in your hands
share with me the fuel of fervent fire, gems be our eyes, together, golden pulse we've made -

J.A.B.


Bike Ride

Bike ride,
air through my hair,
sunshine dousing my skin.
Dirt and splashed mud cover wheels.
Sweat drips
heat rises, thigh to palm to cheek.
Music comes from nature,
leaf and rock crunch
below tire.

Premium Member Don'T Sweat Your Looks

Don't sweat your looks... Forget the mirror
                        ~ What's outside reflects what's inside

Premium Member ''The Sweat of Lovers''

Seductive, swollen,
erotic—the Rose smells of
the sweat of lovers.


Premium Member Sweet Summer Sweat

Drips of my chin
as I paddle my canoe
 into the storm.
© Uwe Stroh  Create an image from this poem.

Sweat

Summer sand soft and sultry,
Salty sweat, sweet and wet.
Wistless wind, waveless water,
Bathers baking, basking burning
Seagull scavenger of shiny sea
Searching, scurrying squabling over scraps.
Wandering women walk with will
Wondering why weight won’t wither.
Trembling toddlers take tentative steps
Towards towering tidal tempest
Cumulonimbus clouds clearing
Silent sky screaming
Silken sunlight streaming
Doting Dad daydreaming

Guts, Determination Blood Sweat and Tears

Guts, Determination Blood Sweat and Tears 
Who can say they have not used that combination
That is the combination that makes famous people, heroes and idles  
What is the difference between famous people, heroes, idles and you 
The amount of followers 

Let’s look at a famous people/ heroes/ idles

They have the guts to do something different 
They have the determination to do it the best they can 
They have hurt themselves for what they believe in 
They have cried when it all went wrong 
 They have raised a sweat just to get it right 

I want you to look at your life 
Through the eyes of your family 

You have the guts to make your family get out of bed 
You have the determination to help your family be better than you 
You have lost blood for each member of your family  
You have sweated your butt off to ensure comfort for your family 
You have shed a tear more than once for you family 

Why do we like famous people, heroes and idles  
Because they do something better than we can 
They make what they do look easy 
Famous people give us ideas, dreams and hope
But most of all 
Famous people, heroes and idles are people that we admire 

You have become a master at what you do 
Day by day you give love 
Day by day you give hope 
Day by day you share dreams 
Month after month your kids keep coming back to you 

With out knowing what you have done 
You have year after year 
Created a hero for your kids to idolize 
You have given advice to your friends 
You have shown kindness
You always manage to give away a smile when it is most needed
You have had a positive effect on others as well

You are: 
My Idol
My Hero 
My famous person

Sex, Sweat and Perfume

Sex,sweat and perfume
Still consume this room
The sheets washed a thousand times
Yet laced with our swansong

I lay on pillows new
But just like morning dew
As droplets of us are evaporating 
I'm left...with all the aromas...and envisage what they bring

But there's nothing left to anticipate 
A swansong heard now on death we await
To feel your lips upon mine one last time
Delicately parted by my tongue

My muse...my Alice Prin
Who brings forth unadulterated sin!
For the amount of canvases who have felt my strokes some may deem me amateur
Yet through constant connective awareness,readdressing and adjusting minute details
I have intensified my masterstroke so i fill the canvas and it swells to produce
Cream of the Crop

They said love conquers all
To believe that are you a fool?
To be questioned on passion, lust and love coexisting?
A question only asked by those still searching!!

For I won't settle for anything less

X
© Ben Massey  Create an image from this poem.

Yet I Smile With Sparkling Eyes

My anger boils deep down inside.
Yet I smile with sparkling eyes.
Hot blood flowing vie chamber to chamber…
Thumping heart beats vexed closer to danger…
Drinking in downpouring tears and cries.
Yet I smile with sparkling eyes.

Pissing out vengeance, bourbon and wine.
Bowels rumble loudly from the hate I dine.
Hands wipe away sweat of brood and brine.
Cap rim shadows inhuman thoughts of mind.
Gut pit energy peaking and on the rise.
Yet I still smile with sparkling eyes.

Guard my steps' quick smooth strides.
Make not my eyes deem you unwise.

Premium Member Don'T Sweat the Small Stuff

To be successful in this life of ours

We must be prepared to be in it for the long haul

Grab the brass ring and hang on for dear life

It's surely not for the weak of heart

It takes a lot of intestinal fortitude

To make it through, to be content, to be happy

A total commitment that no matter what obstacles are in our way

Our approach allows us to circumnavigate them

And enjoy life to the fullest

We only get to go around once so make the most of it

Listen to me... as if I'm some kind of expert on the subject

Throughout life, it's a learning process

Some of us never understand that and ever get it right

For those that do, the rewards are magnificent

We're very fortunate that life is so forgiving

Few of us ever get it right

To sum it up, don't sweat the small stuff


© Jack Ellison 2014

Home Sweat Home

A triangle top
A square foundation
A picketed white fence guarded 
by
two spotted dalmatians sitting on the
shaggiest rug that reads
"Home Sweat Home"
© Kira Price  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Hot Summer Sweat

No lines mark her bronze skin
as she lies in the sun,
bikini top     undone.
Small drops of sweat begin
to form salty rills, in
sultry air they glisten.

Deep sighs through crusted lips,
hand on top, will it stay?
A quick glance, it's okay.
Reaching she rolls her hips,
and from gripped cup she sips,
another     long     hot     day.

Languidly she hopes she'll
increase her sex appeal.


08/17/15

"sweat Lodge"

Satan over the years has been known for tricks and deception
Not only covering up what he is doing, but what he has done
One has to give him credit as he is very successful, but beware
He and his people are always looking for a new invention
And he is one tricky old son of a gun
Very private about where they worship if you can call it that, don't want you there

In the old desert around El Paso, Texas, can be very  a dangerous place
The scorpions and rattlesnakes are tame compared to Satan
The Mexican border, Drug smuggling and devil worship are on a rampage
With the rotten and evil, he will show his face
Again they will try to cover it up if they can
But when discovered, they are filled with rage

Native Americans have used "the Sweat Lodge" for hundred's of centuries
In the religious rites to cleanse a spirit or a soul
Their way of getting closer to God, sometimes they use peyote
Now Satan's people have stolen the idea, it is uses varies
Where they think in drug altered minds that they are in control
And once again old Satan is the coyote

At their rituals it looks like a white plastic covered igloo
In the middle of tall mesquite bushes near a bonfire
In a large fire pit in the flames, lava rocks are left to bake
Around a bonfire they dance and chant, do what lesbian witches do
In the sweat lodge, drugs make all of Hell go haywire
Drugs are poured on the molting rocks, the steam is a witches dream

Not man Native Americans in El Paso, that use a sweat lodge
So there is no legitimate reason for one to be there
But to devil worshiper, it is just a desguies 
And another way for Satan to corrupt the sweat lodge
But all is seen that goes on there
Nothing hides from God's eyes
© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.

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