Best Swollen Poems

skeptical swollen soles
tracing dark toes
on vying veins
of tactic trains:
lofty lousy limbs
etched in ink

drastic dances dripping
on seeps scrunching
in jumpy jolly

mystic melody birthed
embroidered with will
virtuoso concerto crunching

sumptuous soles stretching
la-de-da limbs lurching.
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She looked at the mirror
She took in her swollen eyes
Puffy from last night's tears
Swollen eyes
Reflecting her swollen heart
Swollen from too much scar tissue
Swollen from the surge of emotions
That had expanded its walls to near breaking

She listlessly dabbed at her eyes with some water
Eyes that had...

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two swollen rivers
convergence deeply hidden
surface knows them not


(May 6th, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin)


(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Luke’s lips are swollen
 He doesn’t look that great
 It must be an allergic reaction
 To something that he ate

 Luke’s lips are swollen
 It’s pretty hard to ignore
 It can’t be the nuts he scoffed down
 As he has had loads of them before

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A heart swells,
oozing with love,
having fulfilled, re-fulfilled
and over-fulfilled obligation.
But the mind now weakens 
from the weight of this swollen heart
and the pressure must be released 
before it explodes.
As they engage in battle;
mind versus heart,
one resists the power of love,
the other embraces balance 
and they become...

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broken family trees
words fly like wasp on a hot breeze
dark lucidities

By Robb A. Kopp...

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I've seen a picture of a book
caught in a flood from the past
and marveled at what the view
revealed to me, the reader

The book, arced and curved to
its center, like a ship's bow
darkened with abandonment, and 
white crystals grown from pages' edge

Words crystalized from every
line written,...

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The sting of a wasp
Smacked me hard on the eyelid
Can't get rid of itch
Swollen,  scrape is so awful
Wasp drove me nuts; I can't blink


Written: August 23, 2021


A Buggy Tanka Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser...

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stomach is swollen
his first meal in two fulls weeks
life breathes in his eyes...

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My big mouth
earned me a black eye
When I got into a foolish fight,
in the school cafeteria,
over a disputed last piece of pie
Came home and tried to hide
behind dark sunglasses
To my parents, I uncharacteristically lied
Such is the fate I suffer now,
puffed up with swollen pride...

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words forth coming--...

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Swollen by your love and affection you said you loved me well, I guess you showed your love everyday cause everyday I would swell

It hurts inside to see the man that I once knew for taste, but every morning when I get up I see...

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Spear Well Used and Swollen


So green the grass on hidden hill
 open vista views another thrill
Naked the splendor shone then rose
 swift the shock when love chose

Romance set the fair morning scene
 she a tramp yet once was a queen
Her knight in love with a...

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Time, night, and sleep, I could not tell,
For down on the bathroom tiles, I fell
I hit my head but not so bad,
My hand, my muse screeched “are you mad, 
What have you done”, confused, in pain
I looked, down at our hand, a monster 
Glared at...

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