Long Swerved Poems
Long Swerved Poems. Below are the most popular long Swerved by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Swerved poems by poem length and keyword.
Worming the Cat and Dog
Once 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:
swerved, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
Chapter 160 -- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The Incident with the ACCIDENT
Date: June 2051
11 am. Hot moment of Monday
Morning Molly entertained Dasheri
In the gymnasium while Holly busied
Herself preparing the family's large
Meal as she appreciated a hip hop
Song. She pressed...
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Categories:
swerved, angst, best friend, business, color, confidence, devotion,
Form:
Prose
Annulment Coming Up
I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, ‘cause we wouldn’t be alive,
but...
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Categories:
swerved, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
When I Consider Life Without You
When I Consider Life
As a baby, I was laying in my bassinet when a rifle bullet was shot through
our living room window and passed through right under my bassinet not hitting me.
...
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Categories:
swerved, blessing, dedication,
Form:
Narrative
When I Consider Life With You
When I Consider Life Without You
As a baby, I was laying in my bassinet when a rifle bullet was shot through our living room window and passed through right under my bassinet not hitting...
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Categories:
swerved, appreciation, blessing, devotion,
Form:
Narrative
Bodybusy
I've never considered myself nosy, I just care about people that's all,
The way gardeners care about roses, when colored leaves start to fall.
But like chaotically spattered sunsets, often things can get confused,
Like the times I...
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Categories:
swerved, care, fantasy, giving, heart, imagery, life, people,
Form:
Couplet
Sian
Sian, she sits in a lonely room,
Hugging at her knees
Should she go to London Town,
Or stay where her roads are clean?
Sian, she sits on a wooden chair,
She falls onto her knees
She longs to be in...
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Categories:
swerved, art, birth, courage, culture, dark,
Form:
Ballad
Without You
Since I was little you have been around me. My parents enjoyed you as well as their friends. You made the adults loud at the party full of joy and filled with sorrow come the...
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Categories:
swerved, imagery, innocence, introspection, journey, joy,
Form:
Free verse
Crash
We had been under its grip for days. The truck swerved from lane to lane as it sped through the dark. She was screaming mess of anger and pain. Our shattered pieces had always fit...
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Categories:
swerved, friend, i miss you, lost, love,
Form:
Free verse
In Land of Cockaigne
I was driving home late one cold Winters night
It was minus ten and the moon shone bright
Then in my car headlights a young girl I did see
I swerved hard to avoid her and hit a...
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Categories:
swerved, car, chocolate, fantasy, girl, recovery from,
Form:
Narrative
Dragon Meets Wolf Creek Pass
Dragon Meets Wolf Creek Pass
(Inspired by CW McCalls’ song ‘Wolf Creek Pass’)
On a trip to see Dragons’ friend Drag, way out… in Texas…
Crossing the plains, in a caravan filled with, all our little blessings.
Missouri...
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Categories:
swerved, adventure, fantasy, fun, funny, humorous, imagination, vacation,
Form:
Light Verse
Barnstorming Heart
49 years past; a puppy was bought, picked up out of his pen on a pet shop floor;
he had honey brown eyes & an inquisitive way. He grew to be so loyal and true, how...
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Categories:
swerved, adventure, memory, pets,
Form:
Rhyme
My Awakening
A far off memory that's like a scattered dream..
...a scattered dream that's like a far of memory..
..I want to line the pieces up...
Yours...
And mine
Let me tell you my story
As I traversed through the visions of...
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Categories:
swerved, birth, father, god, identity, memory, youth,
Form:
Free verse
Odyssey From Africa 3c4a
CHAPTER 3c continued
Till he happened to encounter
A much stronger river hunter
Hideous Jurassic lizard
Pulled him down with no returning
Other crocodiles converging
Made straight lines like silver arrows
Churned and twisted in the water
Then the other three turned...
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Categories:
swerved, adventure, africa, fantasy, history, mythology, science,
Form:
Narrative
Still Trying To Get Home Pt 1
It was a dark, foggy, rainy night and I was driving alone. It was several hours before
dawn. I had "no service" on my cell phone. Out here driving in the middle...
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Categories:
swerved, mystery, science, science fictiongirl, house, night, dark,
Form:
Free verse
Goodbye To You
I'm standing here; still; but the world I feel is spinning
For every action there is a reaction so when I lose you're winning
What's my purpose? I'm hurt by this; not knowing the reason I exist
Unsurpassable...
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Categories:
swerved, angst, happiness, hope, inspirational, lost love, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Scarlet Roses
"But when you showed me what happiness looked like, I shook harder, sobbed, wailed and bawled; tore at your clothes, your perfect, perfect face, and said, "This could never be mine."" - the poet.
It seems...
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Categories:
swerved, death, grief, hurt, loneliness, longing, loss, rose,
Form:
Elegy
Bird In Distress
There is no reason why i shouldn’t do it, i thought
come what may and what may not.
The grass is always greener on the other side
I wanted to explore , to go against...
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Categories:
swerved, adventure, death, fantasydeath, me, time, memory, dark,
Form:
Lyric
New Years Day 2016
Commodities calmly caressing. Calling carrots. Calling capers. Calamity is not an injested window wiper nor a window sill so dare to jump off a pinnacle to declare justice. Arachnid akmed. Duty done. Swerved to serve....
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Categories:
swerved, age, angel, new years day,
Form:
I do not know?
Odyssey From Africa 6c
CHAPTER 6 (continued, c)
Several of the primate children
Sat together in the branches
Of a tree; they did not notice
Danger silently approaching
Through the leaves a brown and yellow
Shiny scaly serpent slithered
Closer to the young gorillas
Eyes unblinking glimmered...
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Categories:
swerved, adventure, africa, imagination, mythology, nature, science,
Form:
Narrative
On a Dark, Dark Halloween Night
In a Dark, Dark room, on Halloween Night, when the fun was finally done.
When the veil between worlds is so very thin, after the sun had gone down.
We had gathered in front of the fireplace…...
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Categories:
swerved, absence, angst, anniversary, bereavement, child, halloween, joy,
Form:
Light Verse
Our Political Participation
I've come to say a few things about our political involvement,
Important is this because our future is on the edge of precipice,
And is dangerously tilting irreversibly towards enslavement,
If urgently not arrested we pay the...
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Categories:
swerved, allusion, anger, anxiety, motivation, political, power, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
The Last 4 Years and the Coming Decade 1
When the 21st century stepped into its third decade, the major tone of the world sharply switched. Internecine confrontation, cartelism and calumniation snaffled the high pitch, while comprehension, cooperation and cosmopolitanism, like ill-adapting burdens and...
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Categories:
swerved, america, international, introspection, political,
Form:
Prose
The Little Girl who learned to love Lightening
When Gabriella was 5 there was a terrifying storm.
She woke up and screamed as loud as she could.
No-one answered so she ran into her parent’s bedroom.
Her Mother and Father were hiding under the bed.
Gabriella crawled...
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Categories:
swerved, 10th grade,
Form:
Free verse
I'm a Soft-Lover Dude
I'm a soft-lover dude, something I have never tried to hide. I have always respected your mind. thoughts, and soul way before I ever wanted your body on my side.
You are so smart, so...
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Categories:
swerved, emotions, fantasy, feelings, how i feel, i
Form:
Rhyme