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Best Swigs Poems


An Evening In With the Cat
If 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
Cup of Love
.

        I guzzle
      she quaffs
         I swill
      she swigs

           We
drink...

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Categories: swigs, love,
Form: Free verse
In the End
Two 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

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Premium Member I'M Coming Home
He 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 Cupboard
All 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
Premium Member Luck of the Irish Limerick
Last 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



Premium Member Good Ol' Rex
He 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
Premium Member Gratitude
Gratitude 




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 Burn
I 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 Bing
8/21/17
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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
Premium Member The World and Lifestyle of a Tycoon
He 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 Mondays
Turning 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
Incarceration
A 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
Premium Member That Magical Number Three
Three 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 Caviar
Candlelight 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

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