Long Swooshed Poems

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Flickering Flame

Dear, ice cold hands:
You came from a place of hurt and evil. You were used to people walking in and out of your life. You perfected how to push people out of your life, just...

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Categories: swooshed, beauty, death, fire, hurt, lost love, sad
Form: Narrative


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The Undertow

The Undertow


The two could feel the undertow
Pull at them both - then let them go
He wondered if she could know
Or sense it too and let it flow

The undertow in the fast-running tide
Ebbed and flowed at...

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Categories: swooshed, anxiety, conflict, confusion, desire, emotions,
Form: Verse

Interstellar Reverie

Sipping aromatic coffee on my duty break 
I glanced beyond the hazy vapors
outside toward the isolated runway;
under moonlit sky giant aircraft at standstill.

Despondent like me they seemed outside,
Inside my zestful mind seemed free,
While I wondered...

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Categories: swooshed, adventure, dream,
Form: Free verse

Red Penance

Under the shade of that proliferous maple tree we'd named
  I'd given you a piece of my naive exuberant heart
   when I handed over a fragment of shimmering red ribbon
  ...

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Categories: swooshed, endurance, hope,
Form: Free verse

A Drop of Sacrifice

For a long time, the northern sea unleashed fear in the hearts of the residents living close to the coastline. The hazardous hurricanes of war riding the chariot of whirlpools swooshed everything in their vicinity...

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Categories: swooshed, hope, joy, peace, symbolism,
Form: Haibun


Ruby Showers

I spent my day shopping for rubies.
Shades of magenta, crimson, maroon
sparkling in the ocean of my options
as stars which would make me swoon.

The old manager tried his best
to understand my specific details,
yet I couldn't explain...

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Categories: swooshed, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
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Waterfalls, Rivers and Drought

WATERFALLS, RIVERS AND DROUGHT

The frenzied forces of cold, icy streams
detonate explosively on the rocks below.
Their rapid currents wreak havoc 
on logjams caught in crevasses beneath
the mist and rainbowed spray.

We blink in awe to see this
spectacular...

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Categories: swooshed, creation, earth, environment, mountains, natural disasters, river,
Form: Free verse

Dinosaur Limericks

Miss Velociraptor knew she was scary,
she’d be rich if for each scream she had a penny.
She tried her best not to growl,
not to chase, beat or foul,
but not for long could she stick with any.

Mr...

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Categories: swooshed, animal,
Form: Limerick

Yellow Sapphire

          Onyx of darkness crumbled beneath my bed,
               I lit a bead...

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Categories: swooshed, hope, night,
Form: Free verse

Sans Scribbling Scrolling, Scrounging Scrunching, Scrying Scribe Section Seventy

Sirens sounded secretly securing source. Strait sacks swooshed scamps scaling sensitive sentries (simply spayed seals) surveying surrounding staked spy sotted sham semicircular slipshod shelter. Snappy, Snippy, Snoopy suited Skyhawks surprisingly swooped somnambulant senseless scriveners. Sargent...

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Categories: swooshed, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form: Epic
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Tantrum

TANTRUM

a perfect storm of tears as her teeny feet stomped,
and her voice roared ferociously,
surprising stoic parents.

in full-blown hurricane style,
     her entire foundation fallen
        ...

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Categories: swooshed, child, storm,
Form: Free verse

Pachyderm Grip

I know you love Korean food and dine on the 
other sweet side of the world
I wonder if you toppled clean over
when the runaway circus herd swooshed past your shoulder.
They stepped on the tables like...

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Categories: swooshed, adventure, animals, life, nature, places, time,
Form: I do not know?

My Thoughts

My thoughts, they swirl, like dried up grass
Everywhere on breezes- 
No sense, too many on the move
Swooshing through my mind.

I just can’t focus on the why
You had to go with him.
I thought we would be...

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Categories: swooshed, love,
Form: Free verse
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my paint apron

my paint apron has so many colors
it looks like a fascinating Miro design
splotches, dabs and finger tips of paints
blues, reds, oranges, silvers, a bit of blue

they are blended beautifully
put onto this apron one at a...

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Categories: swooshed, art,
Form: Free verse
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