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Best Swiftest Poems

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


Two Spirits Watching the Ocean of Turmoil
Life is like being a passenger on a luxury ocean liner 
 That is sails across a Sea of Turmoil.
 Passengers feel safe by putting...

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Categories: swiftest, boat, corruption, life, recovery
Form: Free verse



Premium Member He Walked Midnight Sands, In Deserts of Black Light
He Walked Midnight Sands, In Deserts Of Black Light

He walked midnight sands, in deserts of black light
along old ghostly trails with shadows glowing bright 
Never...

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Categories: swiftest, art, dark, death, halloween,
Form: Sonnet
The Poet Worthy of Praise
He or she who can put pen to paper	
And write words for all to cherish and savour,
Who can touch the heart and fire the mind
And...

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Categories: swiftest, artwords,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part Five
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part Five) - Of Six Total

Among the hideous, Poe's great love stood
Annabel, her beauty shining so well
Wretched souls glaring,...

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Categories: swiftest, art, dark, death, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Haunted Highlands
Deep within the highland mists, white heather, bright adorning,
     I last beheld those flaring eyes, though tender as the borning.

I'd gone...

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Categories: swiftest, fantasy, passion, spiritual,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Nine Bubbles
.
                Big Bubbles
       ...

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Categories: swiftest, allegory, children, wisdom,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member What It Really Means
A day when everything goes your way 
   I must be doing something wrong

when you do everything on your checklist
   Haven't...

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Categories: swiftest, day, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
The Last Poem, Translation of a Composition of Rabindranath Tagore
Have you heard the symphony, the voyage of an eternal time?

Its Chariot is the swiftest one, gone soon, gone long

Beating hearts touch the innermost mind

Darkness....

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Categories: swiftest, poems,
Form: Free verse
Once a Leopard
Blackbirds and undulate bush
Trapped in time's tapestry--
The fluid hide of the big leopard
Who leapt on cushioned feet
Once to race the swiftest
Scents in the wind-- A...

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Categories: swiftest, animal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bird of Prey
Bird of Prey

On Banyon Lake, where waterfowl dwell,
The night was tranquil and held no fear.
Until came a sound ascended from Hell.
I heard a menacing cry...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swiftest, bird, fear, nature,
Form: Rhyme
I Hoped It Was a Dream
It was the first nightmare I had awake
With chills,  fear replaced the blood in my veins
I searched for death and through the swiftest means
But...

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Categories: swiftest, fear,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member Fate of the Faithful
Fate of the Faithful

The orb of light that once shone through
Confounding the darkness permeating time;
Now the boiling pot of a dark brew
Of a sinful repulsive...

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Categories: swiftest, christian, confusion, religion, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Queen Mary
A floating grand duchess of her time,
Moored and held captive, by chains of elegance.
The great lady, holds her head up high, with prides honor,
Befitting such...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swiftest, adventure, history, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse
Through the Gospel
The folds have heard his gentle voice,
In which I was yet to hear.
They say it is still and small;
A sound to comfort the tiers.
Had I...

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Categories: swiftest, faith, gospel, identity, pain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member There's No Escape From Certain Things
Checking the lights on the dashboard when they flash and stay red:
it's the oil that needs to be changed or the engine that requires
maintenance, and...

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Categories: swiftest, food, funny, mother, urban,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things