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Best Swopped Poems

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


Gender Swopped
If you're a straight person
Looking for a companion
You have to do your homework
To see what you're getting 
Because, some men are women
And some women are...

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© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swopped, gender, people,
Form: Free verse



Unspoken Words Viii - Credit Love
I don't want to start with those cliché things but please believe me when I say I don't know what love is, I'm just trying...

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Categories: swopped, love, trust, women, youth,
Form: Free verse
And God Still Sits
It was first all, beautiful
And the plain blue sky spanned on either sides
With snow-white flakes drifting religiously
Over light-green steeples into a land
Beyond what my bulgy...

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Categories: swopped, africa,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Campfire Tales
Sitting round the
campfire
the men told each
other tales
as the night went on
each one
became more
elaborate by turn

Tales of whoopers
that got away
a few night time bed
stories
of this and...

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Categories: swopped, native american, night,
Form: Light Verse
The Magical Bridge
Once opan a time me and my friend were thinking about the legend about the old footbridge
		
	    We came acroos a river...

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Categories: swopped, candy, flying,
Form: Free verse



Killing Me Again
“KILLING ME AGAIN”

Once again there is none that may see
anguish and hurt deep inside;
With sparkling tears I’m killing my fears
Removing all shame I try to...

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Categories: swopped, introspection, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Rodger Beadmore
Rodger Beadmore
While a droving out near Bollon at about the forty mile, (1950s)
just a following sheep through the lime bushes dense. 
Moving down the stock...

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Categories: swopped, adventureold, old,
Form: Rhyme
Swopping Positions
The oldest patriarch in the close family 
Wise, historic, brave and a quiet shroud of dominance
I grew, I matured, I aged
He shrunk, he slowed, he...

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Categories: swopped, family, grandfather,
Form: Narrative
New Friends,Full Circle
The friends im with now soften the craving to drink
Had enough of the alcohol the smell and the stink
As i write down these words my...

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Categories: swopped, health, imagination, recovery from...,
Form: Rhyme
Winding Down
Babbling talk of unknown words
Striking precious objects with damaging knocks
Deep cuddles to obtain wishes
Swopped roles for flying trains and planes on tracks
Familiar noises for new...

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Categories: swopped, child,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Premium Member In the Bin
Time for a de-clutter , make some room
in drawers and shelves,
Feng Shui folk swear that it makes
one feel good about oneself.
These trainers from my glory...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swopped, age, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Daylight Freedom Quest
I slide and  heave with brittle bones
along this pitch black tunnel , 
twisting, rolling, writhing  in  a sea of  tar.
Vapors hot...

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Categories: swopped, age, art, character, courage,
Form: Imagism
Star Struck Voyage
Christopher Columbus,
Swopped his compass for a rhombus,
Embarked upon new shores with ‘Ooh arrs,’
That knocked America out with fifty stars

5/12/22

A Brian Strand Choice Poetry Contest
Form: Clerihew

Sponsor:...

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© W J Clarke  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swopped, adventure, america, travel,
Form: Clerihew
Birds and Seeds
I received a bag of mystery seeds in the mail
I didn't know what to do with them so,
I took them outside to be sorted out
When...

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© Daisy Ward  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swopped, animal, bird, conflict, environment,
Form: Free verse
Oh See Dee
Whilst pensive and serene
and seated on the loo 
contentedly having 
my morning number two 
my serenity was shaken
torn asunder
by a massive mistake 
a terrible blunder
someone...

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Categories: swopped, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

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