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
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
The LabradorIf 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
Titanium QuillI 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
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
Tissue Boxlike 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
A Kept WomanDream-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
Categories:
swollen, beach, lust, moon, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
I the Mirror - With a Major Contribution By Joseph May - Dramatic Free Versean 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
The Last Love Letter To the WestI 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....~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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?
IronbarHe 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
Desert DreamingA 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
Abandon Dead Trails and Thy Sybarite LustAbandon 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 TurnStanding 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
I Forgive YouYou 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