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Best Swishes Poems

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


Premium Member Nature Sounds
The wind against the trees make a rustling
A sound unlike any other around
The rubbing of the limbs craft a bustling
It’s a subtle music which brings...

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Categories: swishes, life, nature, sound,
Form: Quatern



Melody of Sadness
A saddening song swishes subtly in the bitter breeze, 

Mad mournful music meets me everywhere I move, 

Like a dolorous dirge drumming through the dark;...

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Categories: swishes, music, sad, war,
Form: Verse
Premium Member To a Starfish
A tinge of gold revealed in sunset's blink
upon its face, caressed by foamed bubbles--
marvelous starfish, draped in pearl and pink,
lucent as  fluid rails of...

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Categories: swishes, animal, beautiful, creation,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Little Sandpiper
Little piper, little piper ...
   Oh how fast you skip away,
 As the morning tide crawls in to taste the beach -
Briny swishes...

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Categories: swishes, animal, appreciation, beach, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Like Peter Pan and Tinker Bell Nursery Rhyme
Hand in hand two sprites on a magic flight      
with wings of crystal glass and fairy light 
they flew, inside...

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Categories: swishes, appreciation, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Other Side
My child, a baptism took place when you jumped into the river for my sake—Ringo

Just like her favorite character Alice, she dresses
A young girl named...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swishes, child, christian, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Spirit Grass
spirit grass

wind wanders through 
invisible bison graze
raise dust devils that flirt with larks
buzzing insects in the air
swirl dip rise into the sun

swishes almost whispers
play around...

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Categories: swishes, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Acquiescence
'I think I know why the ocean flows'


When I watch the tides send spume and surf onto the poets' swaying shore

Caress the silken sand embrace...

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Categories: swishes, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Echo In Seashells
The seashore is seldom silent,
never mourning nor forlorn,
for relentless waves 
called on the roll, roar in.

The play's cast of waves
cheered on by the wind,
stand up,...

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Categories: swishes, beach, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Egads and Little Fishes
“Egads and little fishes”
Reminds me of my dear old mum
Covering her head uttering this phrase
Thunder made her come undone

Terrified by each electrical storm
Dear mum would...

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Categories: swishes, humorous, mom, mum,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Islands In Time
Sand swishes between toes, pulls you toward peace
the palms fanning you, slowly, like a lover feeding grapes.

Birds peek shyly from the understory, sometimes hover
and chirp-nag...

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Categories: swishes, beach, leaving, life, time,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Night Light Madness Pantoum
Night's grassy fields furrowed beneath starry bait,
calls us to cast ourselves upon the straw,
above the Pointillist's daubs spark a hungry slate
to entice our soul while...

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Categories: swishes, spacehope, morning, stars,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member No Tigers Home In Africa
No Tigers At Home In Africa 


Walking my tiger home alone I’m sure walking at last

home from home and beyond when I travel too fast

In...

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Categories: swishes, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
My Imaginary Restaurant
My Imaginary Restaurant


Welcome here all if customized hospitality is in your needs
My Restaurant- “Skyline Swishes” it’s name crystal board reads
Its a see-through double globe with...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swishes, food, kids, happy, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
The Fox
You might see me in the back streets
By the light of the full moon
With my look refined and cunning
I will almost make you swoon
Don't treat...

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Categories: swishes, animal, urban,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs