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Best Swifts Poems

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Premium Member 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



Premium Member My Zoo From a To Z
Alligators, 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 Sky
There’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 Day
looking 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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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swifts, beautiful, summer,
Form: Couplet
In Golden Slumber
Rest now in golden slumber
                 As shadows fall away
Your...

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Categories: swifts, dream, Lullaby, sleep, song,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Spring of Substance
SPRING 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 Nest
How 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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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swifts, appreciation, bird, nature, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Cranes In Migration
Cranes 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
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Teachers - Xxi
Unquotable 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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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swifts, children, humor, parents, student,
Form: Epigram
Innerself
He 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
Premium Member Fairies Stroke's of Luck
Fairies 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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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swifts, blessing, change, color, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime
wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid the hot nights
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warm is the river
fish rising leaping...

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Categories: swifts, june, nature, summer, sun,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hummingbird
Thy swifts of season

a beauty evanescent...

sweet succulent love...

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Categories: swifts, life, nature,
Form: Haiku
The Haunted House
Amid 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
Premium Member Repast
Above
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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things