Best Swigs Poems
An Evening In With the CatIf I had a bottle of pills
I’d dump them out inside my mouth
Take the last few swigs of vodka
And swallow all of them down
If I had a big sharp knife
I’d drag the cold steel across my skin
If I thought for a moment it might
Bring this...
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Categories:
swigs, death, depression, loss, pets,
Form:
Quatrain
Categories:
swigs, love,
Form:
Free verse
In the EndTwo swigs of tequilla
Strawberry Daiquri
A pair of scissors
Some anger
Pain
Emptiness
An arm and a leg
Meke a good time
For shedding some blood
Tears anyone?
Breaths feel cool
Taste rebelious....
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Categories:
swigs, peace,
Form:
Free verse
I'M Coming HomeHe looks through the curtains as the meal is served
The sweat on his brow and the I.V. drips
Mom wears her apron with a picture of a turkey on it
It was her favorite and the music playing
And I'm coming home to where I'm loved
Father sits watching...
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Categories:
swigs, angst, faith, family, mom,
Form:
Ballad
Skeletons In the CupboardAll he is rackety-raggedy walking the streets.
Talking about things that are conflicting.
His mind has been captured by the wrongful deeds of people.
He has been cheated and depleted of his meaning.
No more power brings no stronger will to live…
That is the will for bigger and better...
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Categories:
swigs, character, conflict, crazy, education,
Form:
Narrative
Luck of the Irish LimerickLast night I heard the banshee,
After a few swigs of whiskey,
And after I heard her scream,
I poured some Bailey's and cream.
Now I cannot hear her nor see.
3/13/17...
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Categories:
swigs, drink, humor, ireland,
Form:
Limerick
Good Ol' RexHe heard the car and came running,
Jumped and whirled in the air,
Barking his happiness!
Dad lifted her down in her yellow-flowered
Camisole and high heeled shoes.
The dog dropped,
His hind quarters hunched down,
Body sprung parallel to the ground,
Ears laid back, hackles raised.
He'll get used...
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Categories:
swigs, 8th grade, dog, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
GratitudeGratitude
Perpetual fragrance of life sojourns in air,
As golden glitz of sun swigs despair;
Nature endows its riches on us to cherish,
His boundless bounties will never perish;
A tranquil soul that plucks strings of kindness,
will relinquish soreness of brutish heartless;
Let magnificent aurora of dawn unfold,
and emotions of...
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Categories:
swigs, beauty, thanksgiving,
Form:
Couplet
Let Them BurnI shall bloom with unrelenting persistence
and murderous resistance,
fighting back with mental pistons,
shattering the framerworks of my current existence.
I find self expression
from the roots of my depression
and resilience
in the past I'm repressing.
This obsession
drives me up the mountain to anxieties peak
as my chest rises and heaves
and I...
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Categories:
swigs, anxiety, depression, heart, identity,
Form:
Blank verse
Bada Bing8/21/17
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Taking swigs
Continuing to dig
Doing it big
Bada-bing
Crown me I am king
Doing my thing
Toward the fences I swing
My all I bring
Sting like a bee, And knock them out the ring
Ding
Ding
Ding
It ain't no thing but a chicken wing
They were holding on by a string
Unable to cling
Now in...
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Categories:
swigs, dark, how i feel,
Form:
Rhyme
The World and Lifestyle of a TycoonHe sure enjoys
his life of Reilly;
lavishly living it up!
A globe-trotter.
A man-about-town.
He's a big hit
with the ladies,
and he doesn't mind
all the attention.
He's a big spender.
Did I mention
he's got style, too?
An unlit Cuban cigar
is...
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Categories:
swigs, humor, perspective, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
Rainy Days and MondaysTurning over I shut my alarm off while in my bed
forcing myself out of my cocoon I have a feeling of dread
its another Monday morning and its pouring outside
getting up I let out a big weary sigh
Rubbing the sleep from my eyes I look out...
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Categories:
swigs, humor, rain, work,
Form:
Light Verse
IncarcerationA welter of anxious faces gawks curiously at him,
But by now he is immune to the consternation.
His effervescent expression glows,
As he swigs down their viscous repulsion.
He knows that they will desecrate his graveyard,
Punishing him for his denial to be superfluous,
For his denial to...
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Categories:
swigs, death, depression, introspection, life,
Form:
Verse
That Magical Number ThreeThree is that magical number so fascinating,
Oft-repeated in history.
In the Bible, it is the Holy Trinity
But there’s plenty more equally captivating.
On Golgotha’s hill were erected three stakes
Three gospels are called Synoptics
Triangles make most pleasing optics
And three times a...
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Categories:
swigs, bible, literature,
Form:
Quatrain
Candlelight and CaviarCandlelight And Caviar
Luxury, wealth and sophistication
describe my exquisite fascination.
Rare to find in the out of doors
rich in passion behind closed doors.
Dress me in silk, cashmere and satin
whisk me to Paris, wrap me in fashion.
Feminine accessories from professionally styled hair
to painted, pedicure toes.
Powerful passion, swigs of...
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Categories:
swigs, mysteryme, me,
Form:
Rhyme