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Best Swollen Poems

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


Premium Member I Wore Your Skin
~I wore your skin~

Brother, I wore your skin last night
Nothing but friction, blood -dry ink
Announcing a crush "Silence by the Sky!"
Integrity denied, endangered enemy

Brother, I...

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Categories: swollen, anger, bullying, dark, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Labrador
If I wasn't there,
the rain swollen clouds
would have still dumped 
their dark weight over the bay
and through a gaping tear,
let down a curtain of sunlight
to...

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Categories: swollen, care, creation, dog, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: swollen, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Orchid Oxymorons
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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Categories: swollen, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tissue Box
like visitors from outer space
they came with tears, and lined the sidewalk
long in face, and arms embracing
some (I have no inkling) who
they were or why...

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Categories: swollen, child, cry, daughter, grief,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: swollen, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sway of the Summer Moon
The summer moon was swollen, blue
          A flaw that girl knew thru-and-thru
    ...

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Categories: swollen, beach, lust, moon, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I the Mirror - With a Major Contribution By Joseph May - Dramatic Free Verse
an impression of the world
stands before me
Left is right, and right is wrong, 
and the mirror reflects a melancholy song.

i the mirror
not 
the babbling brook,
or
the...

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Categories: swollen, conflict, dark, depression, grief,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Last Love Letter To the West
I can't recall the day you left
 Empty words going west

~To The West Coast~

My love, my sweet love -- my soulmate
I will cherish our time,...

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Categories: swollen, deep, feelings, heart, leaving,
Form: Free verse
....The Title ^fight....
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Leaning against the ropes, eyes swollen half closed

Its been a long fight....

Blood dripping from a dislocated jaw

Body beaten and bruised; taking a few more blows

Crowd...

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Categories: swollen, faith, love, passion, time
Form: I do not know?
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: swollen, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desert Dreaming
A violent scene lay before me
Huddled in death, there’s Ella, Mary-belle, everywhere I could see
Swollen tongues, sunken eyes, frail bodies strewn in the hot powdery...

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Categories: swollen, anxiety, nature, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abandon Dead Trails and Thy Sybarite Lust
Abandon Dead Trails And Thy Sybarite Lust

If Nature's earthen-fires thy bosom holds
and thy heart's countenance mind's eye thus sees;
life serves best those adventurously bold,
walking worn...

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Categories: swollen, appreciation, art, autumn, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Each Day Takes Its Turn
Standing firm 
we live 
we give 
we take 
we learn 
we strive to make sure 
each day enlightens us 
and brightens us
even as light fades...

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Categories: swollen, black african american, day,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member I Forgive You
You lost my life.
     Sharp as a knife...
     You lost a lot of things.
     Your memory in my heart
     Still sings...

Today...

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Categories: swollen, abuse, father, father son,
Form: Lyric

Book: Shattered Sighs