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Best Swerves Poems


Harmony
...Her sounds are peaceful
symphonic and soothing

The chirping of the birds
at the crack of dawn, 
the plopping of rain
pouring heavily at roof tops, 
the humming of bees
as the......

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Categories: swerves, nature, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Calligraphy
...Up and down as it overlooks
the open book
freefalling so
but where to go?

Embellish each page, one by one
where words will run,
of written swerves,
artistic curves

By quill that writes an artful ve......

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Categories: swerves, on writing and words,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The White Doe and the River of Life
...*Image of Patronus by Wizarding World

The White Doe and The River Of Life

Comes a white doe, quaint sight a wandering,
Murmurs, her head swerves about, hesitates,
A snow owl offer......

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swerves, 10th grade, allegory, animal,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



To Belong
..."The streams are my veins" ~ by Constance La France

I feel
I belong to
the pellucid stream that
gently swerves through the rocks as I
stroll leisurely along the rough ravine;
Warm and......

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Categories: swerves, nature,
Form: Rictameter
Raining in Summer
..."Raining in Summer" Contest
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"Raindrops" Contest
Sponsor: Jcb Brul
2nd Place

It's raining.
Well, it was at least.
I'm just a nobody in their parents' garage wi......

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Categories: swerves, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, green,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pick Up Truck
...pick up truck
speeds down the road...
johnson grass lies down

pick up truck
leans on curves...
driven by hunger

pick up truck
swerves into parking space...
Olive Garden  ......

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Categories: swerves, food,
Form: Senryu



Analyzer
...A meeting through obscure means,developed into friendship a bond was hit but short lived,of which in hindsight an highlight. You opted out of the path of a possible darkened cylinder
 Along your own......

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Categories: swerves, friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stevie Wonder
...When "The lightening Strikes",and we hear a "Powerful Thunder","Our minds and hearts envision,and think of all the "Great Songs"sung by "The Creative Artist"named "Stevie Wonder! I hear the "Thund......

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Categories: swerves, 12th grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ride of a Lifetime
...RIDE OF A
LIFETIME

A roller-coaster catches my eye in flash 
B eguiling me to run bullet fast...
C hequered spiking thrill press my spine
D ancing stars shoot then surround me fine
......

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Categories: swerves, adventure, games, happy, imagery,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Covered With Fur
...;;;;;;;;.............;;;;;;;;

so many frigid clouds
so many dangling drooping dippers
on this icy, icy night of paper, powder and pearl…
she gushes out from the night blanket,
cats and......

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Categories: swerves, seasons, spacenight, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Im Thankful Im a Woman- Womans Day Celebration
...I’m thankful that I’m a woman
With the power to beguile
With charm at my fingertips
And bewitchment in my smile

I’m proud to be a woman
Of genders the fairer one
With a silken soft beauty
And aura t......

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Categories: swerves, woman, woman,
Form: Quatrain
Cautiously Caught My Eye
...Cautiously Caught My Eye

This saying cautiously caught my eye;
Should never let a poor dead horse lie
Not a sound,
Made around;
Go ahead and bury him and then cry.

Jim Horn

By Big Wings
......

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swerves, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Through Night
...Through night
It is a flight
Hard to see where it leads
Along the way, stars come to be
Lighten
The path
Swerves through a sea
Of rocks and lands of ice
Unfamiliar territory
To dawn.......

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Categories: swerves, inspirational, life, visionary,
Form: Cinquain
The Drunken Pen
...The drunken pen dips and swerves around curves on paper. Paper for the purpose of writing things—thoughts a pen brings. My cursive swings, wild and loopy. Oops! Too loopy. Took that curve too fast, r......

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swerves, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sherkston
...Mike was ridin' shotgun
I was sittin' on the hump
Ledford's got the steering wheel
There's the devil in our trunk

Drivin' up to Sherkston
For a day of sun an' fun
Doin' ninety mil......

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Categories: swerves, 12th grade, beach, youth,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things