Long Switchback Poems
Long Switchback Poems. Below are the most popular long Switchback by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Switchback poems by poem length and keyword.
Trifolium Pollinated Courtesy BombusTrifolium pollinated courtesy bombus
Before landscapers mow swaths
across undulating waves of clover
(the father/daughter team
usually cut grass every Tuesday)
bumblebees alight from one to another flower.
Meanwhile, I lie splayed
mid morning June 28th, 2022
with stomach upon natural carpeting
quietly basking...
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Categories:
switchback, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, color, creation, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Why Spoiled Misses PrincessWhy spoiled misses princess...
never wishes to awaken from pleasant snooze
Appellation (with trailing switchback
and/or additional colorful turns
of phrases) emphasizing assigned
nom de plume "princess goldilocks"
hardly flattering compliment
gently aforementioned sobriquet mocks,
jabs, and stings painful as botox
analogous when the...
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Categories:
switchback, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anti
Form:
Free verse
My Coloring BookWe loaded up for a Sunday drive
The Ozark Mountains were alive
Wild dogwoods of pink and white
Every shade of green in sight
Blooming jonquils and daffodils
Woodpeckers, blue jays, and whippoorwills
Even though the painting was unfinished
Nature's bounty was...
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Categories:
switchback, appreciation, daffodils, family, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Jokes On YouThe jokes on you
Flit
As we walk home from the party
The atmosphere declines
Just you and i alone again
There’s nowhere left to hide
In and out of consciousness
We always wear a different face
Whatever we...
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Categories:
switchback, confusion, introspection, night, day, me, night,
Form:
I do not know?
Somethin's Bound To GiveAnother switchback under mountain crossed, (*)
far below blue and violet spires bloom.
Undiscovered shady valley river flows lost,
rippling in pride of madeira's plume.
Turned my back to a harsh southern wind,
reach those dizzying heights again.
No finer place...
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Categories:
switchback, adventure, beauty, flower, heart, mountains, passion, river,
Form:
Rhyme
Distance Lends Enchantment“Distance lends enchantment...”
They say distance lends enchantment and true love
weathers all seasons; but, sometimes I wonder
whether the distance becomes obscured by changing
winds and billowing clouds.
And what is distance anyway? True, it’s the
long way home,...
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Categories:
switchback, emotions, feelings, imagery, life, lost love, metaphor,
Form:
Blank verse
Long Distance RunnersWe don’t run the way we used to
ten kilometers pounding
hard through switchback trails
to beat the twilight
Twenty-odd years ago
you wanted marriage
kids and a life
any life
away from your parents
but nothing of marriage, held...
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Categories:
switchback, life
Form:
Free verse