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Best Swelling Poems

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


Premium Member Oceana
Oceana

Oceana flings her sequined petticoats
Upon the sands as if to toss the seaweed 
From the swirling edges
While she dances with the wind
With each turn she...

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Categories: swelling, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Portrait
Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swelling, art, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: swelling, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member India
I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the language
Swelling in...

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Categories: swelling, appreciation, art, dance, music,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Workshop Poem: Grand Tour To Fairyland
WORKSHOP POEM: GRAND TOUR TO FAIRYLAND


Sprinkled-rainbow clouds reign above the skies,
peeping yellow in-between wrinkled pillars 
shine like bulbs to crash the net of fog
attached to...

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Categories: swelling, beautiful, fantasy, imagery, journey,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Catharsis
Tears of the past invoke frozen footprints
When fears rekindle flares of dire misery
Feeling the ache, straining blood streams
As wrinkles pop up swelling deep worries,

Holding dialogue...

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Categories: swelling, deep, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Communion
"COMMUNION"



You speak to me in tongues
I  hear you with my heart
I feel you with my mind
Like a Spring bloom, I am slowly unfurling
Like a...

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Categories: swelling, easter, i am, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Famous Last Line
India (Original Poem)

I hear much joy in the music,
View elation in the dance
Feel happiness in the laughter,
Soulful spirit in poetic romance.

I feel love in the...

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Categories: swelling, hindi, people, places,
Form: Rhyme
The Special Rose
She sits and rocks, so gently back and forth
Her chin leaning heavily on her chest.
In her hands she cradles, one flat waxed rose
And sighs as...

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Categories: swelling, grandparents, lonely, love, old,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Simply Refused To Ride With Death
When I refused to ride with Death
He tied my hands and feet,
Then tossed me in with some poor guy
He'd grabbed up off the street.

Oh, what...

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Categories: swelling, death, parody,
Form: Quatrain
O Glorious Autumn
O glorious Autumn of melancholic 
Gold -
All abouts the brightly lit
Woodlands
Your wonderful artistry behold!
Tinted bronzes,
Darting between awkward firs
Of sobering Evergreen,
Loiter inside mauve havens
Splashed with palest...

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Categories: swelling, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aurora Spills
"Aurora Spills"


Aurora spills like a waterfall
light from the eyes 
saltwater tears
crocodilian
scaled in the weight of worth
a drop in the ocean of fate
breaks the seaweed fields...

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Categories: swelling, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Bliss At It's Purest We Loved Each Others Naked Sight
Our Bliss At It's Purest We Loved Each Others Naked Sight


When our love, its hottest and satisfying nights first begun
we each tried to give our...

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Categories: swelling, appreciation, devotion, emotions, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Die Another Day
“Die Another Day”


“Your mission, should you so deem it,
Is to infiltrate ALL Fluff Clusters in K.A.O.S. Headquarters
And bloody well steam it!”


“The Place is a hazardous...

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Categories: swelling, fantasy, fun, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Confessions of a Baby Snatcher
This is my last confession; there will be no more.

I am impercipient and slow from last night's sleeping pill,
wincing away from the harshness of day.
Kitchen...

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Categories: swelling, baby, loss,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs