Best Swooshed Poems
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 handed over a fragment of shimmering red ribbon
I still remember ......
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Categories:
swooshed, endurance, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Yellow Sapphire
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Onyx of darkness crumbled beneath my bed,
I lit a bead in fiery scarlet hues on a novel white canvas
A fire enraged in the hollows of anxieties
......
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Categories:
swooshed, hope, night,
Form:
Free verse
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 mist and......
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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 or foul,
but not for long could she stick with any.
......
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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 heart
But yet so far way
You s......
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Categories:
swooshed, beautiful, wisdom, youth,
Form:
Narrative
Mary Skit
...Mary Skit was full of hot air
She was a balloon to be fair
She ate turnip
......
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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 Apollo's tool
He swooshed open his drool I forgot how to......
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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 perfected how to push people out of your life, just like you had seen every......
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Categories:
swooshed, beauty, death, fire, hurt,
Form:
Narrative
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 it flow
The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed......
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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 tried his best
to understand my ......
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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. Snap......
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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 herd swooshed past your shoulder.
They stepped on the tables ......
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Categories:
swooshed, adventure, animals, life, nature,
Form:
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 riding the chariot of whirlpools swooshed everything in ......
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Categories:
swooshed, hope, joy, peace, symbolism,
Form:
Haibun
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 foundation fallen
......
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Categories:
swooshed, child, storm,
Form:
Free verse
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 they seemed out......
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Categories:
swooshed, adventure, dream,
Form:
Free verse