Best Swing Out Poems
Below are the all-time best Swing Out poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swing out poems written by PoetrySoup members
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
swing out, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
All That I Have Taken InAt day's end, I take in the last light
seeping into the dark waters
across the bay and keep it here.
I gather the sound of departing gulls
smudged...
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Categories:
swing out, eve, nature, spiritual, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
Writing Unwraps My Soul - Potd"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as...
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Categories:
swing out, life, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Mirrored ReflectionsReceive
Listen
Be Still
Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time
I look down to...
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Categories:
swing out, appreciation, celebration, fantasy, image,
Form:
Free verse
Vanilla VisionsWhen the
moon muses
to the
melody of memories,
roaming wisps
of vanilla gently
flow through
...
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Categories:
swing out, death, deep, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Lift Somebody's DawnLearn from the eagle how to soar with winds
Spanning your wings to conquer tall peaks
Float hopes high reaching sapphire blue skies
Triumph with your smile...
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Categories:
swing out, encouraging, inspiration, meaningful, youth,
Form:
Lyric
Once Upon A Time In Milton CreekThe sun was rising high in the east over the town of Milton creek
It was the eighteenth day of December, the start of Christmas week
All...
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Categories:
swing out, america, anniversary, christmas, remember,
Form:
Narrative
In Another Timethe waning moonlight thinly enveloped
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and...
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Categories:
swing out, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Life Is a DanceSometimes life is such a bore we run on automatic;
Then it’s time to tango for a dash of the dramatic.
Or when things are dull and...
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Categories:
swing out, life, life, life, time,
Form:
Couplet
House On Memory LaneFeeling nostalgic, I went back home
To a house on Memory Lane
A sentimental trip, through the years that have flown
To a three bedroom, small white, wood...
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Categories:
swing out, memory, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
The Fiddler's CatAn ebon sky, darkness to light
Diamond stars, mosaic night
Bright lunar sphere of brilliant white
Floodlights a scene of will and might.
The Fiddler’s Cat, sips warm Bordeaux
Fiddle...
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Categories:
swing out, imagination,
Form:
Couplet
Starlit DivaMy mind has wings and wants to fly
into galaxies where stars streak.
Aloft on whispers and a sigh
a hint of stardust on my cheek.
Into galaxies where...
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Categories:
swing out, freedom, growth, imagery, journey,
Form:
Pantoum
On Poetry Soup A first day on Soup is filled with much awe
The wonderful poems will make you smile
Easy is it to fall for all
Some enabled my...
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Categories:
swing out, friend, poems, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Muses In GoldTo glide with inspiration above quilted clouds
Where birds so often soar
Glimpse a sunset hued in gold
With many colors to adore
...
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Categories:
swing out, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
Not Enough TimeLast January, winter lost it's chill
By May the summer's sun had turned me brown
I watch the leaves late August, change at will
Time's speeding up or...
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Categories:
swing out, life, time,
Form:
Sonnet