Long Swap quatrain Poems

(this is a type of quatrain called Swap Quatrain,
wherein the fourth line of each stanza
is actually the first line, just swapped around)

Another Time, long long ago,
there was no Rain; there was no Snow.
No reason was...

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Perhaps in a row they sit on their chair.
At their small object they all like to stare.
In an upside down world, the room’s silence grows.
They sit on their chair, perhaps in a row.

With both thumbs...

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Written in Free Verse

There's a star with my name written on it
I wrote it, so that's how I know
Came to me in a dream one starry night
Instant star of night I become.

In filigree lace I...

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How Poetry Began, such plots you tell!
A Tale Of Fire And Ice you wrote so well
Poor Peter Pumpkin bid a sad adieu
Pink Cherry Blossoms was your first haiku
You Echo, Silent Still - love's dream come...

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3.
"Dead leaves lay still until the wind takes them
         here and there:  even the last flower is withered:
        ...

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You cower at my rebel yell
Envisioning hot flames of hell
I’ll cast on you a wicked spell
Before your plea for life I quell
My rebel yell, hot flames of hell

You tremble at my vicious might
As you are...

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"And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins" (Mark 11:25)


The air was still, the morning misty cold,
and birds were...

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~Patrick Swayze: A Great Actor~ 
(Swap Quatrain) 


He stole many hearts, for long time 
In "Dirty Dancing" have a good time. 
With "North 'n South" I couldn't part. 
For long time, he stole many hearts....

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(a swap quatrain poem)

My greatest love – a man divine
will always be my valentine.
I tragic tale I tell you of
a man divine –my greatest love.

I’d had to leave another man.
No one I knew was crueller...

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~Tribute to Patrick Swayze: A Great Actor~
 (Swap Quatrain)


 He stole many hearts for long time
 In 'Dirty Dancing' have a good time.
 With 'North 'n South' I couldn't part
 For long time, he stole...

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Form: swap quatrain/senyru utilised for experimental haibun
Inspired by a photograph from the performance piece: "To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain" by Zhang Huan

"Beyond the mountain, there are mountains" 
Traditional Chinese Proverb

stop and analyse,...

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Stars shimmer in the quiet night
Erasing the laughter of sun’s light
Twinkling a rhythm in the glimmer
In the quiet night, stars shimmer

Dreams sigh in poetry and prose
Written verses, hearts do compose
Rhymes who’ll inspire and imply
In poetry...

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These are the days we’re all paying more
than what our health care should be paying for.
Prices go up but my check the same stays.
We’re all paying more; these are the days!

These are the days for...

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(Swap Quatrain) 


He stole many hearts for long time 
In "Dirty Dancing" have a good time. 
With "North 'n South" I couldn't part. 
For long time, he stole many hearts. 

We watched him dancing and...

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Always we’d  break up. We’d get back together,
passion-thirsting in hot summer’s weather.
We’d quench our desires from love’s brimming cup.
We’d get back together; always we’d break up.

Not long would it last, and around the fall,
you...

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"Babies are bits of stardust 
                     blown from the hand of God."

  ...

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Burning yearning, all consuming,
stymying heart’s love from blooming,
discerning not dark fears churning
all consuming, burning yearning.

Fire of desire, spawned by ego
propelled by thoughts, we don’t let go,
till we tire when our plans backfire,
spawned by ego, fire...

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Inside the chamber of one's heart, there's at least a pint of goodness,
So do not hesitate to show someone some brave acts of kindness,
Whether life for one is so tough that it could break his...

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Look to the sky to witness morning glory
As rising vision writes an amorous story
Painting cosmic canvas delightfully spry
To witness morning glory, look to the sky

Listen to the birds for message they heard
As the horizon lit-up...

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That passion’s night, to make me sigh,
my love  seized several beams from sky
and shaped a ring of moonstone bright.
To make me sigh that passion’s night.

My darling beau, to make me smile,
then star-shine stole so...

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She hid the pain behind a smile 
as she walked slowly down the aisle.
Her doubts she struggled to restrain 
behind a smile she hid the pain.

Their chosen song the organ played,
She looked divine in gold...

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**Swap Quatrain**

Each stanza in this poem must be four lines where the first line is reversed in the
fourth line. Rhyming pattern AABB, CCDD, and so on.

"Sweetheart"

I have so much to say, she has done so...

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My Amber dear, awake to me. 
My madrigal has melody
in trills of the gold finch that you hear.
Awake to me, my Amber dear!

It’s dawn.  Arise, my angel sweet.
Put golden slippers on your feet.
We’ll follow...

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A soft whisper, across the room
I watched her shake out the old broom
Please come over to me mister
Across the room, a soft whisper

I walked her way, she smiled at me
In her presence I felt so...

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Spied a red robin, hopping on the grassy mead
Tilting its head this side and that, looking for feed
Knew her young ones were waiting eager to grab in
Hopping on the grassy mead, spied a red robin

I...

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