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Best Swooshed Poems

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


Red Penance
Under the shade of that proliferous maple tree we'd named
  I'd given you a piece of my naive exuberant heart
   when I...

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Categories: swooshed, endurance, hope,
Form: Free verse



Yellow Sapphire
          Onyx of darkness crumbled beneath my bed,
        ...

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Categories: swooshed, hope, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waterfalls, Rivers and Drought
WATERFALLS, RIVERS AND DROUGHT

The frenzied forces of cold, icy streams
detonate explosively on the rocks below.
Their rapid currents wreak havoc 
on logjams caught in crevasses beneath
the...

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Categories: swooshed, creation, earth, environment, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Dinosaur Limericks
Miss Velociraptor knew she was scary,
she’d be rich if for each scream she had a penny.
She tried her best not to growl,
not to chase, beat...

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Categories: swooshed, animal,
Form: Limerick
The Woods
The twisted trees swayed
as the wind swooshed in the night sky
The gates intertwined with vines
that blossomed the thorns of time.
How they come so close
To your...

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Categories: swooshed, beautiful, wisdom, youth,
Form: Narrative



Mary Skit
Mary Skit was full of hot air
                  ...

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Categories: swooshed, fun, funny,
Form: Limerick
Petermannchen Handed Me Over His Bunch of Key
Petermännchen handed me over his bunch of key
Hugged me and sent me to the east Aegean sea
There I found a bold golden bull
He was chewing...

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Categories: swooshed, fun, funny,
Form: Limerick
Flickering Flame
Dear, ice cold hands:
You came from a place of hurt and evil. You were used to people walking in and out of your life. You...

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Categories: swooshed, beauty, death, fire, hurt,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Undertow
The Undertow


The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let...

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Categories: swooshed, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire,
Form: Verse
Ruby Showers
I spent my day shopping for rubies.
Shades of magenta, crimson, maroon
sparkling in the ocean of my options
as stars which would make me swoon.

The old manager...

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Categories: swooshed, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Sans Scribbling Scrolling, Scrounging Scrunching, Scrying Scribe Section Seventy
Sirens sounded secretly securing source. Strait sacks swooshed scamps scaling sensitive sentries (simply spayed seals) surveying surrounding staked spy sotted sham semicircular slipshod shelter. Snappy,...

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Categories: swooshed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Pachyderm Grip
I know you love Korean food and dine on the 
other sweet side of the world
I wonder if you toppled clean over
when the runaway circus...

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Categories: swooshed, adventure, animals, life, nature,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Tantrum
TANTRUM

a perfect storm of tears as her teeny feet stomped,
and her voice roared ferociously,
surprising stoic parents.

in full-blown hurricane style,
     her entire...

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Categories: swooshed, child, storm,
Form: Free verse
A Drop of Sacrifice
For a long time, the northern sea unleashed fear in the hearts of the residents living close to the coastline. The hazardous hurricanes of war...

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Categories: swooshed, hope, joy, peace, symbolism,
Form: Haibun
Interstellar Reverie
Sipping aromatic coffee on my duty break 
I glanced beyond the hazy vapors
outside toward the isolated runway;
under moonlit sky giant aircraft at standstill.

Despondent like me...

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Categories: swooshed, adventure, dream,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things