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Best Swooping Poems


Swooping Season - Australian Magpie
When they warble in a gum tree,
graze for grubs amongst the grass,
if you’re walking down a path,
they will always let you pass.

But once there’s spring in the air,
there’s no need for an excuse,
walk into their territory,
hell’s certain to break loose.

Some will scream and try to...

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Categories: swooping, bird, nature,
Form: Lyric
Swooping Love
When love comes in fast

                   it knocks you down and holds you

               ...

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Categories: swooping, love
Form: Senryu
Swooping Vultures
surrounding failures
like swooping vultures
scan the landscape, all the world
around them, for
individuals who are
fighting, struggling, trying to
make a name for themselves,
in order to
hope for their failure,
hope with squinted “praying” eyes
that their imaginary friend in the sky
of choice,
will come & commit atrocities against
those of us who just...

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Categories: swooping, life, time,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Aerial Acrobats
I watched the birds from afar, they swooped, and they soared right up high, then straight toward the ground,
They made me dizzy, with the patterns they made in swirling circles going around and around,
It was all so fast like a hair-raising race, with each bird...

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Categories: swooping, bird, dance, flying, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry