Best Swished Poems
Below are the all-time best Swished poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swished poems written by PoetrySoup members
A HAY FIDDLE FIDDLEThe full fallow moon was hung low in July
As white stars & fireflies lit the night sky,
A sight to behold was the feline bold'
Drawing...
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Categories:
swished, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetry River run freeQuietness upon the face,
Silence and loneliness,
Land before time,
Before living things existed,
Sadness as my waters ran through the earth,
Was my voice the only thing to...
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Categories:
swished, poems,
Form:
Personification
ANIMAL COURTI relate this story from my room in the Quiet Vale Giggling Academy
A reader might find my story hard to believe
BUT!
At one time in my...
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Categories:
swished, animals, funnytiger,
Form:
I do not know?
MASTER PAINTER "I am sending you a gift of poetry, dear heart." This one really reached out to me in its simple
and uncluttered...
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Categories:
swished, allegory, inspirational, life, naturegod, god,
Form:
Free verse
Went Fishin'
Submitted to the "Gone Fishin" contest
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Trollin’ the islands at Texoma,
It was April, 1964.
New rod and reel in hand,
I’d NEVER been fishing before.
A Garcia 2510T casting...
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Categories:
swished, adventure, april, crazy, fish, fishing, fun,
Form:
Rhyme
Am I the Assassin or the UndertakerAm I the Assassin
or the Undertaker
...
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Categories:
swished, death, grief, morning,
Form:
Elegy
Fish With A WishSplish! Splash!
Went the little goldfish.
As she flipped,
and she flopped,
right out of her dish.
Hiss-s-s-s!
Hiss-s-s-s!
across the room,
came a threatening sound.
And she wished,
oh, she wished,
she...
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Categories:
swished, cat, fish, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Casting My FlyMy fly cast got caught on my fly.
The hook hurt so bad I did cry.
While now in much pain
it...
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Categories:
swished, funny
Form:
Limerick
Loves Disappointment-
My braces are pinching me and I remove them but really I only want to get closer
The harder grasses prickling our arms but why does...
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Categories:
swished, loveme, love, me, river, sun,
Form:
I do not know?
Oh VincentOH VINCENT
Oh Vincent, can we ever know what torments plagued you;
what demons fought you; what images raped your senses?
It was no accident that you...
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Categories:
swished, character, conflict, emotions, passion, stars, tribute,
Form:
Light Verse
fantasy"Beyond lychgate lies future death" she says,
cucumbered eyes slid back under cauliflower sky,
brimming smithereens of harkening demons.
Been in saddle some time since torchlight began,
a child's...
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Categories:
swished, adventure, fantasy, fate, hero, imagery, magic,
Form:
Lyric
A Life Changing 'Misdial'
A Life Changing Misdial
One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”, which I read for the first time in high school. ...
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Categories:
swished, adventure, change, chicago, education, faith, jesus,
Form:
Narrative
free cee KITCHEN KISSES KINDELED KITCHEN KISSES KINDLED
Why
Sigh I
What did I ever do,
to you?
The “you”...
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Categories:
swished, angst, me, me,
Form:
Free verse
The White StallionThe white stallion galloped up
with his mane flowing in the air.
He stopped on top of the snowy hill
when he saw me standing there.
He reared up...
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Categories:
swished, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Cold Day at the Zoo
The ring-tailed lemurs swished their stripes;
The tortoises perambled.
Rhinoceroses munched on hay;
The seals caroused and gamboled.
A winter day with snow on tap
Was perfect for the zoo.
The...
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Categories:
swished, animal, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
I WOKE UP ONE MORNINGI woke up one morning
and what did I see
a face in the mirror which wasn't me,
my nose was a ski slope
as long as a...
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Categories:
swished, humorous,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Do Not Flatter Me
Please, do not try to flatter me
with those capricious words you speak,
perspicuous but inurbane...
their undercurrent, quite oblique.
They may seem kind to you for sure;
beneath, though...
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Categories:
swished, angst, emotions, words,
Form:
Quatrain
LYREBIRDI passed by Old Man Banksia, a wonderfully gnarled tree,
While trekking through the Jamison, a bushland pedigree,
I saw the broad leaf of the Geebung, with...
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Categories:
swished, beauty, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Flame of the FlamencoThe Flame of the Flamenco
Ruby was the flame of the Flamenco,
a tavern on the docks of Costa del Sol.
Men were entranced by her fiery dancing
as...
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Categories:
swished, anger, betrayal, dance, death,
Form:
Narrative
Layers
“Forget it” he said, in the
Half-light of the motel
Room.
The shadows from the blinds
Hit her shape...
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Categories:
swished, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Please Don't Asked For My Decision On Anything: 2
Please don’t anybody asked me to decide anything. I don’t know
It had been one hell of a week.
The white snow doesn’t know if to...
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Categories:
swished, confusion, courage, dedication, depression, me, me,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
HippocampusHippocampus
What a memory trickling down my limbic system
Pure deep emotion released from a firing brain
Neurons transmitted untainted joy
A night dive at Stackpole Quay in...
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Categories:
swished, life,
Form:
Free verse
AFTER THE RAINA thousand drops pelted down,
from infinity to the dessicated ground,
soil,like a weary drunkard,
relished the sumptuous drink.
Maids of nature in dusty green gowns-
with lassitude in their...
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Categories:
swished, nature
Form:
Free verse
Viva Catalonia
his heraldic crest
a donger and yarbles rampant
upon a field of clover
it was a stone slab of course
donated by a few eggheads in exile
his...
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Categories:
swished, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Swishing Leaves
Leaves fell like confetti, upon an autumn bride
Swirling in their multitudes, across the countryside.
Along the path I walked they lay, some were ankle deep
I took...
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Categories:
swished, autumn, tree, wind,
Form:
Rhyme