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Best Swop Poems

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


Premium Member Amuse Pursuits 3
One by one
They come and go;
Bus-stop blues


On the way out,
Smile as you go;
Embrace forgetfulness


Surge of passion
No need to feel;
Go with the flow


Bedtime stories
We swop tales;
Laugh...

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Categories: swop, conflict,
Form: Haiku



Santa Is a Yorkshire Man
To stop the myth going around that Santa is a Scotsman, a huge hit on the radio here. So fo those that believe this is...

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Categories: swop, funny, christmas, christmas, eve,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If I Could Change the World
Sometimes I don't switch on TV, the radio stays dumb
and finishing a newspaper can leave me feeling numb.
What is it with this world of ours,...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swop, environment, humor, world,
Form: Rhyme
Get Back Up
Assimilate your view
To match the status quo,
Consensus starts to skew
Hypocrisy on show,
Now you seem the clown
The eager willing pup,
It’s not the beating down
But how you...

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Categories: swop, inspirational, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Black Poison
Destroyer ~ Poet
Contest Name	5TH POEM ON THE SOUP..
POISON! 1st first.
I was coming up from Tamworth, riding on a tired horse. 
Past Barraba we wandered north,...

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Categories: swop, adventure, cowboy-western, horse, river,
Form: Ballad



Seventeen and Willy's Wings
A Son ~ far away ~ too far
South Dakota ~ now his Wedding Anniversary, "Seventeen"
here in Nebraska, the Midwest
time evolves ~ into space!

Miles and miles...

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Categories: swop, parody, pets, son,
Form: Monorhyme
Books a Resource Part 1
Book is the only stop
Where all halt from top
For knowledge or whop
Of all sort and thoughts slop.
Though it clear drains prop
For teacher or for carhop.
They...

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Categories: swop, books,
Form: Monorhyme
Wanderlust
I travel to quench my thirst
To break away from everything I know
In an attempt to meet a different sun

And to finally feel the snow

I travel...

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Categories: swop, appreciation, earth, freedom, how
Form: Rhyme
Sanmati My Inspiration
Sanmati, my messenger, is no more a milksop.
Ardent though is she never will yawp.
Nagging sometimes though in some shop.
Merrily walks in crowd alone till atop.
Amends...

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Categories: swop, daughter,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Lost Her Mum
Lost her mum at thirteen
Worse news there’s never been.
Her youth alone
No mum to phone.
Dad tried his best
Once mum was put to rest.
It’s not the same
She...

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Categories: swop, death, loss, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Governments
If I was God
I would be angry with the Government
you fight and you bicker
and you get nothing done

Look at England 
trying to get out of...

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Categories: swop, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
Pigging
enthralled forr noww

ineptta jazza bop   the stomp    "she" 2is a sheep  she said
      ...

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Categories: swop, birth,
Form: Free verse
An African Tale
I am Urundi, the daughter of a king,
     I want to tell you a story about my destiny.
   ...

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Categories: swop, africa, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Rest Of The Story Part Two
One often tries to set things back,
to fix and sort without the knack,
HUMPTY DUMPTY comes to mind,
don’t be silly, rash or blind,
but looking round as...

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Categories: swop, care, character, courage, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Entitled
I can't believe your audacity
Well actually!
Your so consumed with rapcisty
The bling life has blinded you
You can't even see what's Infront of you

Who even are you?...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swop, august, corruption, integrity, money,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs