Long Swipes Poems
Long Swipes Poems. Below are the most popular long Swipes by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Swipes poems by poem length and keyword.
Mad Molly ShawThis is the story of mad Molly Shaw
She might be mad now but she wasn’t before
she came home to find her man dead on the floor
She lay down her bible and let out a roar...
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Categories:
swipes, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Marat and Charlotte 2Act 2. A dark, empty stage.
Marat
(standing up)
It's all a blur. It’s all a little dizzy.
I just have dreamed a scary dream as if
two vagabond philosophers robbed me
and killed. I must admit it's a...
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Categories:
swipes, death, love,
Form:
Blank verse
What happened to my sex drive?What happened to my sex drive?
(sung – in a round pussy willow warble - to the tune of --
Oh Where Oh Where has my little dog gone).
Once pronounced libido of mine
took kamikaze nose...
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Categories:
swipes, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
Barnabas Oral's Sightless GameHe plays throughout the house at night
a braille touch for his lack of sight
and dreams of all the crippled things
with broken legs and shattered wings.
The bandage on his wounded eyes
will be there...
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Categories:
swipes, dark, games, humorous, psychological, scary,
Form:
Rhyme
Everyday American IrritationsGROGGY BEDHEAD NO COFFEE SHUT THE BLINDS .... PRESIDENTIAL NO GOOD CHOICES TELIVISION SIGNAL GLITCH SMEAR ART CAMPAIGN... LATE NIGHT REHEATED RERUN RETWEEKED RETWEETED MORNING NEWS?....
MORE RAIN TOO HOT BROKEN LEFT WINDSHIELD WIPER.... SAME OLD...
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Categories:
swipes, america, anxiety, celebrity, conflict, confusion, corruption, culture,
Form:
Blitz
The Fear7/19/2019
This darkness is all I know,
a widow's wardrobe of funeral clothes.
It hangs curtained under my eyes,
the seed inside me grows allowing the little girl I was to die.
Insomniac sleep walking down the streets,...
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Categories:
swipes, death, fear, god, introspection, my child, poverty,
Form:
Rhyme
Cross Species AwarenessCross Species Awareness
Beneath a calm ocean, man watches a shark.
They are same in size, but one has advantage.
Man is wearing a wet suit and long swim fins.
Shark is naked and is not bearing its teeth.
Water...
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Categories:
swipes, adventure, animal, environment, fish, nature, ocean, sea,
Form:
Sestina
ArmageddonTurned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end,...
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Categories:
swipes, christmas, war,
Form:
Rhyme
ArmageddonTurned on the TV to see what they'd say
There's crowds in the streets all around the UK
Shelves being ransacked at Tesco all day
It's happening too in the U S of A
My TV depicting an end,...
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Categories:
swipes, christmas, december, western,
Form:
Rhyme
Seashore: the Tiger and the FishYou're a tiger in the jungle, elusive, strong and free;
I'd wondered how I'd meet you, for I live in the sea.
And though I'd dreamt that one day soon I'd be no more alone,
That it is...
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Categories:
swipes, animal, fish, i love you, longing, tiger,
Form:
Couplet
The Last Time Part 3She counts the seconds while she's standing there…
1.
2..
3...
14….
15...
….
...
..
.
Slowly, she opens her eyes, staring at the floor, too scared.
She glances at her shoes, one is half off, they're both scratched up and untied.
She says it's okay,...
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Categories:
swipes, anger, angst, fear, girl, how i feel,
Form:
I do not know?
God Weeps Through MeI stood beyond the stars,
past the birth-cries of galaxies,
and turned my gaze to Earth—
and I wept.
Not with the tears of man,
but with the sorrow of God.
For what I beheld was not creation,
but corruption dressed in...
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Categories:
swipes, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
What Happened To My Sex Drive(sung – in a round pussy willow warble - to the tune of --
Oh Where Oh Where has my little dog gone)
With a flam boy hunt deft jais nais sais quois
firm lickey split...
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Categories:
swipes, age, appreciation, blessing, color, emotions, fate, irony,
Form:
I do not know?
Viral Venture CapitalistWith clicks and tweets, the bright world at his feet,
Dressed with glimmer, he dances to the beat.
His tweets fly fast, in hope they trend and hatch,
Likes or swipes, trying to find a match.
Living the sad,...
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Categories:
swipes, 12th grade, career, emotions, growth,
Form:
Rhyme
There Is No Escape From the House of the DeadIn a barren apocalyptic landscape,
under a withered, bare, and grossly malformed weeping willow tree.
Lies a lone stone which reads: There is no escape From the house of the dead.
The stone, in pristine state, stands as...
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Categories:
swipes, black love, death, desire, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Mark of the PantherINTRODUCTION: Hold all applause to the end
Erasing all challengers by moon of night.
Mark of the PANTHER with claws lock jaws
Branding its territory with swift swipes.
He stalks the jungle
Polite stealth steps, rip raw
He crept
He...
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Categories:
swipes, adventure, africa, animal, cat, day,
Form:
Free verse
Shadows of Terror - Lion KillAs the light dims and dances on the horizon
A menace stirs from its slumber, slinks from the shadows.
The game move to and fro, staying sit means certain death.
The eyes of death blink with certain deadly...
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Categories:
swipes, adventure, journey, nature, travel, visionary, death, cry,
Form:
Blank verse
Sea of Broken DreamsSea of Broken Dreams
By Kevin Robey
July 1, 2013
He felt the surge of a soul compromised
Seeing the way out of this insanity
Found the razor to unveil his disguise
Pierced his heart that she once set free
The...
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Categories:
swipes, depression, drug,
Form:
Rhyme
KnowshowKnowshow
All nodes firing all the time
Shine on—the glare focusing the hacks
Everything shown
Everything known
Metamalice is good to go
It’s the Knowshow
The devolving snarkyskanks are trickling it to the remember-whens
Viral krankdaddies are upsiding leveraged retro to the never-thens
Bouce...
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Categories:
swipes, political, urban
Form:
Free verse
Old HouseSo swiftly our passage brief,
Our old house looks lonely sad;
Now like a stranger I grief
Upon the place once most glad.
Just way back when we lived here,
Yet now we know sad refrains;
There is a space for...
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Categories:
swipes, devotion,
Form:
Quatrain
FreakazoidThere's a bird in my head
and it's freaking me out
because it won't stop chirping.
All I can envision
are plastic dolls
smoking cigarettes in the panic room
and talking about boys
The bird keeps chirping.
I'm trying to...
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Categories:
swipes, confusion, death, world, bird, bird, me,
Form:
Free verse
Amidst the Firing Rain, a Blaze the SunBreathing the air of a fallen cloud,
The dust got stuck in the back of her throat,
Adelaine, whence have you come?
High up above from the stratosphere,
I saw you like a tear in the open sky,
Fiery clawed...
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Categories:
swipes, absence, anxiety, depression, goodbye,
Form:
Ballad
Healing HeatT’was on a coolish summer night
Amidst dusk creatures howling
Fullest moon in all its might
Essence of darkness prowling
Life was going on despite
The smell of death still lurking
Hooting owls returned from flight
Whilst bustling fast foods working
The...
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Categories:
swipes, animals, death, inspirational, life, loss, nature, sad,
Form:
I do not know?
The Top of the StairsSpiraling into misty dark
twisting invitation to rise above
what awaits at the top of the stairs
wispy sighs slinky down on steps
one . . .
and more
confining moldy walls press
closer
little explosions of panic
skitter...
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Categories:
swipes, devotion, faith, hope, imagination, inspirational, introspection, love,
Form:
Epic
Baton RulerHE FLOW PROMISES IN FAVOUR OF PEOPLE.
BUT THE TIME WAS TO EARN VOTES FROM PEOPLE.
HE WAS AGAINST THE BRUTE AND ABUSIVE ACTIONS.
WAS NOT HAP BUT NOURISH HIS IMAGE FOR THE NASTY ELECTIONS.
PROGRESS AND PEACE...
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Categories:
swipes, community, conflict, confusion, depression, fate, fear, words,
Form:
ABC