Get Your Premium Membership

Best Swigged Poems

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


The Bullingdon Club
The Bullingdon Club

In the hallowed halls of Oxford's elite,
A secret society did convene,
A gathering of privileged retreat,
A club known as the Bullingdon team.

With tails and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, adventure, angst, friendship,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Forevermore
My Iphone softly played Reveille as my 4:30 morning alarm.  Without opening my eyes, I found the phone in the dark and tapped off...

Read more of this work...
© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swigged, death, life,
Form: Narrative
Elmo Elmo
Elmo Elmo was an elephant seller
He kept a white elephant in the cellar
He swigged all the bottles
Down a hundred throttles
And was turned into a big...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, fun, nonsense,
Form: Limerick
Check Your Calendar
While looking for Viagra
with passion on its brink,
I dropped the little box of pills
they all went down the sink

Now on the pack it clearly says,
40...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, funny, sexy,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Trip To the Dentist
Face fractured with fear 
As the Taxi drew near
The building was in the next street
" I'll drop you off here" 
Said Steve full of cheer
(Annoyingly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, health, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Changing Worlds
CHANGING WORLDS




.. And Unc' Nathan -
Well.., he just kept right on .., 
You.., (he coughed a long one) eyes.., 
They gonna' be square..

I blasted another.

'All...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, family, grandparents, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Elixir of Life Two
Maybe I shall live long
Long and long.
Perhaps I might not defunct
After emptying this long life pot.
My boy shall die while I'm exist
I shall place him...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, death, destiny,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Twist My Tongue For Poetry Contest
Sister Susie swigged seven Sangria's,
Seven Sangria's sister Susie swigged.
Swigging seven Sangria's was so stupid -
Susie’s severely sozzled her twin sister twigged!

1/17/20...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, drink, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Hubbard Was Bare
Old mother Hubbard got locked in her cupboard
But not just the cupboard was bare
She let out a yelp but nobody could help
Because there was nobody...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, humorous, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Forgotten Traveler
Creative is the mind of this traveler
lost soul amungst the earth
given a second set of rules and standards 
since my day of birth 

not known...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, friendship, lifeme, me,
Form: I do not know?
Contradictions
the Priest sucked in his Four Star Brandy
hoping that a drunken release
would help him with his conflict
in an alcoholic sleep of peace
the alky swigged his...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, addiction, confusion, philosophy, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgotten Love
Time was melting away. I was unaware; where and how.
My eternal companion in happiness and tear was gone,
The love which had compassionately held me near,
On...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, allegory, books, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ee-Aye-Ee-Aye-Ee-Aye-Oh
Get your knees up, Mother Brown,
For tonight we're going to town.
Under the table, you might go
It won't be knees up though
It will be from the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, 10th grade,
Form: Limerick
The Swill To Believe
“A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still”—
But though we will with all our might,
A sober thought still wins that fight.

A fairer...

Read more of this work...
© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swigged, funny, humor, humorous, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Oktoberfest
Stopped at an Oktoberfest
Just to catch the scene -
Big steins of beer, a German band,
Appropriate cuisine.

Some lederhosen wearers
Did compete at beanbag toss,
Then swigged their pilsners...

Read more of this work...
Categories: swigged, october,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs