Long Swallow Poems
Long Swallow Poems. Below are the most popular long Swallow by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Swallow poems by poem length and keyword.
Falling Into Place: Solace SolitudeLet me take a little sip
Of your blessed, breathtaking brilliance that will numb...
This pain I have in this heart of stone
The voices in my head won't leave me alone
I thought I was on my own,...
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Categories:
swallow, deep, desire,
Form:
Lyric
The Hotel CaretakerHow unparticular the day had particularly been,
On March the third of two-thousand and eighteen,
For the caretaker at an historic Adirondack Inn,
Had lacked company, and therefore, dopamine.
‘Twas Sunday when all the guests had fled,
From either...
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Categories:
swallow, death, grief, introspection, march, mystery, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Below the Horizon - Shallow ShameAgony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...
Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...
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Categories:
swallow, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form:
Free verse
Matsuo Basho Haiku TranslationsThe first soft snow:
leaves of the awed jonquil
bow low
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
Come, investigate loneliness!
a solitary leaf
clings to the Kiri tree
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
The cheerful-chirping cricket
contends gray...
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Categories:
swallow, animal, butterfly, death, earth, life, nature, seasons,
Form:
Haiku
Matsuo Basho Haiku Translations IiDusk-gliding swallow,
please spare my small friends
flitting among the flowers!
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
A bee emerging
from deep within the peony's hairy recesses
flies off, sated
—Matsuo Basho translation by Michael R. Burch
That dying cricket,...
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Categories:
swallow, autumn, death, life, seasons, spring, summer, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Salvation of a Formalist, An Ode To EntropySalvation of a Formalist, an Ode to Entropy
by Michael R. Burch
Entropy?
God's universal decree
That I get to be
Disorderly?
Suddenly
My erstwhile boxed-in verse is free?
Wheeeeee!
Eternal Currents
by Michael R. Burch
How can I write and not be true
to the rhythm...
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Categories:
swallow, humor, humorous, light, nonsense, satire, write, writing,
Form:
Light Verse
Sonnets Xlii-LiSonnets XLII-LI
Distances
by Michael R. Burch
Moonbeams on water?
the reflected light
of a halcyon star
now drowning in night...
So your memories are.
Footprints on beaches
now flooding with water;
the small, broken ribcage
of some primitive slaughter...
So near, yet so far.
A Surfeit of...
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Categories:
swallow, bereavement, death, death of a friend, funeral,
Form:
Sonnet
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
swallow, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Caregiving Stories ContinuedWounded Sacred Dementia
My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.
My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...
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Categories:
swallow, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
No God of Mine - 2021 Edit[This poem 'No God Of Mine' was seemingly confounding readers as
to its meaning. Ordinarily, if I felt a poem wasn't cutting it, I'd delete
it, but on this occasion, I've been asked to explain it... so here goes.]
By...
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Categories:
swallow, evil, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Mario William Vitale Latest WritingsThe language and images of Mario Vitale's poetry are so closely bound to the natural cycles of seasons, of generations, of the body's functioning, that is surprising to realize how many of his poems deal...
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Categories:
swallow, art,
Form:
Free verse
Just -- Trust Me - 1st Half Text Plus Full AudioHere's the deal, folks...
This is, as indicated, the 2nd HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. Due to Poetry Soup's file-size limitations, this piece had to be posted in 2 parts.
...
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Categories:
swallow, car, funny, humor,
Form:
Narrative
Give Me a Second To Breathe Part 1Verse 1: Nothing's in my way today
I'm finally getting my way
Glitter sprays in the air
We are on the bridge of without-a-care,
No longer in despair
You fed me vibrant love, my starlit sky above
You...
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Categories:
swallow, angst, desire,
Form:
Lyric
My AlphabetA a big A little a
What words start with the letter A
...
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Categories:
swallow, children, kindergarten, preschool,
Form:
Abecedarian
ProcrastinationThe invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...
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Categories:
swallow, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, work,
Form:
Free verse
ProcrastinationThe invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...
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Categories:
swallow, dedication, destiny, dream, fear, happiness, success, work,
Form:
Free verse
Strange Creatures and the Forest of Egregore
“Strange Creatures and The Forest of Egregore”
Where do we go -
when our rosebuds
stop still in the cold,
unwanted,
along the unopened road?
we walk into the
forest alone,
there we meet
strange creatures -
some say
they...
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Categories:
swallow, dark, light, love, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Worming the Cat and DogOnce again it’s Saturday; the day when footy reigns supreme.
The Dogs are up against the Cats, the premier favoured team,
but I’ve got no doubts the mighty Dogs will surely cope with that.
I couldn’t think of...
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Categories:
swallow, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Catonita Strikes - Part Two: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from
‘CATONITA STRIKES - PART ONE’
A Freezer Mice adventure
When no-one was around they did the finger-clicking thing
And grew to human size in time for what the day might bring
Their guns were charged and ready and...
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Categories:
swallow, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Things That Stuff My MindExhausted, yet I can't sleep
So glad that I don't want to weep
You're living your epic life
While mine cuts like a knife
Under the horizon,
I see the reflection of the sun
Over the rainbow,
I see a...
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Categories:
swallow, deep, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
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Categories:
swallow, change,
Form:
Free verse
Principal ClownHe walks around with his nose pointing upward in the air
With calculating eyes that are so fearful, mouth moving from side to side and a tongue that keeps twisting around the things that are profound....
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Categories:
swallow, break up, business, community, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Last Trap of ZulaikhaZulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird,
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?
Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...
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Categories:
swallow, dream,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
I'Ve Got To GoI’m on my way, I’ve got to go
(the reasons why you’ll never know),
whisked away in winter’s winds, your sleeping sighs remind me.
And I’ll ramble where I please,
sometimes slipping to my knees,
phantom memories a’ chasing close...
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Categories:
swallow, cute, farewell,
Form:
Rhyme
Ground Level Entry
"Ground Level Entry"
“She fits the bill”,
they say it
insouciantly
visions of being
carried in the beak
of a bilious pelican
where it builds
its rudimentary nest,
it uses sticks and debris
no stones, yet,
from irreverence
thrown at it
no higher...
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Categories:
swallow, muse,
Form:
Narrative