Short Swiped Poems

a thing of beauty
is a joy forever swiped
from eudora



* #12 angel card series...

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With a flip of the wrist
  the stripe he swiped

Just like that
  his identity wiped...

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Side swiped,
Devoted to the cause.
Foundational affects 
Facilitate
Hope.



By: Sabina Nicole...

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I was hoping to find a new lover
I would find one one way or another
For online romance
I lowered my pants 
And quickly swiped left on my mother...

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tiny kitten
swiped the air
opened her paw
nothing there

tried again
other paw
opened slowly
naught, it saw

smacked her lips
then meowed
curled up to sleep
bent, not bowed...

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Beauty exists in spite of the news
Majority of us are still hard-working dudes
The current scum at the top
Will be swiped with a mop
Wiped clean until finally we uproot...

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Gone are the summer days
 Golden leaves shedding tears
  Gust of wind swiped them all
   Gloomy are mute flowers 
    Grieving are the bare trees 
     Glow of my garden lost
      Gate of life closed so soon


14 Dec, 2016....

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A golden fortune
lingers along the patterns
of my palm; a opiate suave
the mere touch; a picturesque
symbolic of greed and dishonor
thousands of lips taste
swiped corporate rhinestones

By Glenn McCrary

© 2012 Glenn McCrary (All rights reserved)...

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The oldest version dates from Tom Thumbs' 1744 songbook. Modern versions keeping with times, caused 'Mistress' to go dark. 'Cockle' is a seashell.

Mistress Mary sang like canary,
When they surround her stronghold,
Swiped silver bells, hid pearly shells, 
And pretties weigh all in gold....

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Writing is like a runaway wagon...
I start with a destination in mind,
suddenly, thoughts topside take charge.
As my piece is posted, I withdraw the reins.
What I wrote is misinterpreted at will
by a reader who takes off on his own.
And the upshot is: mission blitzed -
my little-read wagon is side-swiped. 

written: April 10, 2019...

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Being happy is found deep within ourselves...
It can't be bought or found on a empty shelve...
Nor can it be copied or stolen from another smile...
It has to be built from the bottom up with a loving style...
When it comes around hold it tight with respect and care...
It can easily be swiped away from a life not fair...



inspired by P.D....

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There lay the body,
Of a broken solider,
The explosion swiped him clean,
His slow breaths,
Breathing in the murky air,
All that was left,
Of that poor man,
Was body, leg and arm,
He had a wife and 2 kids,
But now no more,
I still hear his laugh,
Of jokes once betold,
No more laughs for awhile,
The D-Day had struck.


16/7/10
10:10am...

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Listen to poem:

Gray skys backer to the tears; said; to a clearly ominous canvas
Millions of misty dots; swiped right; and left; truncated by this
Blades; so sharply cutting them; from left to right
Driving you away; after all, guiding was by headlight;
The destinations worth; is much more than the journey
To have said goodbye; would have been; privileged to me...

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I give myself as a leaf
Starved in shine dress nude
Caterpillar chest swiped in vein
Swim in drops as deep as green

I give myself as a sky 
Cloud sparkle lit forests in shade
Winds dance in airy packets
Color arches as music in rhyme

I give myself nevertheless
No name,no deed, no pain
Dove nests to home close
Eagle hatches in high cliff...

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When hauling a load,
I rarely explode,
but I have to share a gripe.
Since you wouldn't yield,
I'm out in the field;
you ignored the double stripe.

Apology’s owed;
your eyes left the road
deciding which way to swipe.
I mean, what the heck,
your choice caused a wreck;
I sure hope that he’s your type!

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An Alouette that doesn't really fit either contest...

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To who do I write this? 
To what god's feet do I carry my load
and demand a refund?
Is my poetry just cries of lonely entity
and just like me
it's swiped off from the canvas?
To who do I do this
in this mortal fury of mine,
in hope a stain that I leave behind?
Perhaps one lost poem with faded words,
and the beginning of my name
something
in this cruel morning of nothing....

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The sadness inside me clings to me like glue
I saw the love
I felt it
I saw the detachment
I felt it
I saw the avoidance
I felt it
but I love her
She felt it
It hurts to see it sabotage 
Love
To be swiped away like a teardrop falling down
Splinter fragments of Love 
Painfully Piercing my soul
A slow death comes to me
As without love
I am no more 
Blackness absorbs my soul...

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Life of smile glitter in thundering sky
nameless being started in womb
crystal rays swiped laughter first breath 
billions or seven days who will be the judge 
Ball of fire stay the same.

Unknown pieces gathered unrevealed
smoothing each color mends self being
daring elude  winds rain stars  outburst
thought respect given as birth  dull and clear
Seed  in  wrap flood till crush mutate again...

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Her profile said she’s auburn
So I right swiped my phone
Her hair ablaze like autumn 
I guess I should’ve known

I've always been attracted
To hair so flaming red
My love must be enacted 
We rushed upstairs to bed

She liked to leave the light on
But red was not her tone
The truth came out in what I call
The Goldilocks Zone




6 April 2021

Contest: The Goldilocks Zone
Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco...

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Our land has been barren, cleaned and swiped 
 The voices cry out loud, millions of years they have wiped
The darkest place on earth, thousands of years we have roam
This land six feet under our home sweet home

For those shall be brought who swept this land
They must be crucified, suppressed more than they can withstand 
Scream they must, in pain they must run
The empty spaces in hell must be filed with human...

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The Heist of the Kidney Beans

By Elton Camp

In Pascagoula, Mississippi a burglar did grab
Several times from the drug store some Lortab
The Fred’s store manager very angrily griped
Although Lortab was the only thing he swiped 

The pharmacist decided he would make a decoy
So a funny trick was what he decided to employ
Thief came but the pharmacist wanted to throttle
He found only kidney beans in the Lorbab bottle

(Note:  true story)...

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She was blessed with one baby
Truly best part of her life
Shared custody with her ex

Simply took her breath away
He was growing up so fast
Little darling with big heart

Dad’s unsafe tires and black ice
Was all it took to return
Her lil’ angel to heaven

No number of told you so’s
Would ever change the outcome
In a daze she walks about
With a big black gaping hole
Where her heart used to once beat



AP: 2nd place 2020

Posted on May 14, 2018...

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Just swiped my card
I can hear footsteps all around
Plates and cups banging 
A tray falls on the ground

In, 
out, 
corner, 
behind you
Meals over,
Bring ice cream
You just have to

No ice to scoop
Appetizers are cold
Kitchen is backed up
Sometimes it gets so old

Your new so they'll test you
Try to cheat you out of tips, 
This “co-worker”..not quite legit

One might have pulled a fast one
But a mistake only happens once
Next time you need food run
Your on your own son...

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We swiped left, then swiped right. Mostly out of curiosity or just to get through another boring night.

I swiped left, you swiped right. It can be that way or the other way around.

I swiped left and you also swiped left. Now we can never meet in person or maybe that’s just our fate.

I swiped right and you also swiped right. I guess we made the right decision, is my assumption precise?

Yeah! So maybe we met on Tinder, but  someday I hope to put a ring on your finger....

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Remember those verses
that embarrassed the eyes
and amber glowed the cheek
as to melt the sky expanding
The grunt leapfrogs the groans
were unsaid day words
were bit into shoulder
time just got so older
The autumn wind swiped
the summer sonnets in it arms
Slowly words are br  o ke n d
_______________________o
_______________________w
________________________n
Questions now a buzzing sound
but with choice if given
my last word
Too would be it
my final response ability...

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