Best Swifts Poems
Below are the all-time best Swifts poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swifts poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Wetlands
as swallows land and swifts take flight
inside late noon’s last shards of light
the chill winds that descend on day
cause dense green swathes of reeds to...
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Categories:
swifts, earth, environment, imagery, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
My Zoo From a To ZAlligators, Aardvarks; Arctic fox and hare. Also Armadillos and Asses will be there!
Bobcats, Beavers, Boars; One Blue whale will do! Bovines and a Booby (maybe...
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Categories:
swifts,
Form:
Abecedarian
The Bleeding SkyThere’s a line of flapping, red-starred flags,
they wag their rags, as dogs wag their tails,
when the master’s home;
and the summer wind taunts their linen
crease;...
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Categories:
swifts, history, patriotic, remember,
Form:
Verse
Summers Daylooking at the sky so blue, white distorted clouds,
all alone, nice and peaceful away from the crowds,
enjoying the silence, not being bothered, clouds rarely moving,
A...
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Categories:
swifts, beautiful, summer,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
swifts, dream, Lullaby, sleep, song,
Form:
Lyric
Spring of SubstanceSPRING OF SUBSTANCE
Adorable word drawing a rainbow of substance-- SPRING
Benumb snow-white cloak that drapes the earth,
charmed by strips of golden spotlight above blue...
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Categories:
swifts, environment, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Abecedarian
Natures NestHow beautiful the sounds, sights of nature
In the distance alarm call of a cuckoo,
beautiful sound of summer Tanager
Blackbirds hopping around getting in a stew,
Acrobatics of...
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Categories:
swifts, appreciation, bird, nature, sound,
Form:
Rhyme
Cranes In MigrationCranes fly miles
During the winter
Migrating birds
Hoping to reach their destiny.
Buzzards along the way
Look for pigeons
That seek to feasts and...
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Categories:
swifts, nature
Form:
Blank verse
Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - XxiUnquotable quotes: Teachers – XXI
The pupil, the ***** and the walnut tree, the more the teacher beats them, the better they be.
In the old days,...
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Categories:
swifts, children, humor, parents, student,
Form:
Epigram
InnerselfHe swifts on by like a moon lighted night.
He shines bright for a moment in time.
His arm's always open with warmth.
His smile...
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Categories:
swifts, confusion, courage, dark, death,
Form:
Alliteration
Fairies Stroke's of LuckFairies Stroke's Of Luck
Traipse taffaria fairies, comps citrine
fragrances, tis thirty orangey glean
plucked days hath November, foundation blend,
paints its labored autumns rests, well-earned friend.
Forbade naught tis...
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Categories:
swifts, blessing, change, color, fantasy,
Form:
Sonnet
A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertimewildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
-
farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
-
wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid the hot nights
-
warm is the river
fish rising leaping...
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Categories:
swifts, june, nature, summer, sun,
Form:
Haiku
Categories:
swifts, life, nature,
Form:
Haiku
The Haunted HouseAmid the glacial hills of central Maine
There stood forsaken, gray, an ancient farm,
Which always filled us with a vague alarm.
Atop the humpback ridge of a...
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Categories:
swifts, horror, house, imagination, memory,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
RepastAbove
swifts feast and fly
mistles' munch snails nearby-
tea-time on the terrace, this hot
July....
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Categories:
swifts, nature, places, social
Form:
Cinquain