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Swabbing Poems - Poems about Swabbing


Premium MemberEnjoy The Good Days

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True happiness resides within each of us
We alone are responsible for our own well being
It is so easy to blame external forces, people, or events
But the bottom line is, we're the one...
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Categories: swabbing, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDownpour

...With minds like crystal prisms, they shatter light into every spectrum of possibility, foreseeing storms before the first cloud, hearts bruised by premonitions whispered on the wind. Yet, they dance ...
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Categories: swabbing, appreciation, friendship, love, rain,
Form: Free verse



Swabbing My Nose

...Swab
inside 
my nose
presses, swirls. Twinges,
twitches, runs like it’s bleeding.
I wait in lobby, till rest home screener
smiles. “Negative! Good to go!”
Grandmother, I only
do this
for 
y...
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Categories: swabbing, grandparents,
Form: Fibonacci

I Had a Sweater

...I had a sweater
By Richard Rix

I had a sweater
Made from all the colors I know
From family red to traveling green 
And a future yellow that would glow

I had a sweater
Made from memories an...
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Categories: swabbing, 10th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberExperiencing Technical Difficulties

...I've never twitted on Tweeter
nor am I an Instagrammarian
I've searched on Goggle
but cannot find MyFace on the interweb
I ask "how do I find the North Star?"
and get 4,460,000,000 hits, mostly ...
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Categories: swabbing, technology,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberTrust Dust Withstand Death

...All that we accomplish for ourselves perish with us; all that we do for others and the realm endures. Fear of the path leads to fear of death. A person who is truly alive is prepared f...
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Categories: swabbing, absence, allusion, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Brachiosaurus On the Interweb

...I've never twitted on Tweeter
                nor am I an Instagrammarian
                I've searched on Goggle
                but cannot find MyFace
                I ask it "how do I change ...
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Categories: swabbing, age, nature, sunshine, technology,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPirate In Arm Chair Only

...Pirate
Bold fierce
Swabbing, looting, fighting
Ship, flag, chair, remote
Sitting, yawning, sleeping
Lethargic, immobile
Gamer...
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Categories: swabbing, addiction,
Form: Ninette

Taste the Ooze

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Speaking perfectly clear,
let’s be Frank:
Put the Zappa down — 
Don’t even remotely think
about changing the subject
Swapping, swabbing another
into your wax-filled ears
Why does yo...
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Categories: swabbing, corruption, humorous, parody, truth,
Form: Light Verse

Woke Up This Morning a Pirate

...Shiver me timbers
What's going on
I was dressed as a pirate 
When I woke up this morn

I looked in the mirror
And let out an Arrrr....
I came equipped an eye patch
And a swash buckling Scar
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Categories: swabbing, funny, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Dikless Concert Date

...Practioner of cons, grifts, & rips.  
  Swabbing a deck on a sinking ships
Inexorable in persistence
 lacking all patience  
Or any social boundary

LIE TO ‘GET’ then ‘GONE’ 
                I...
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Categories: swabbing, friend, friendship, hate, memory,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberEnjoy the Good Days

...True happiness resides within each of us

We alone are responsible for our own well being

It is so easy to blame external forces, people, or events

But the bottom line is, we're the o...
...
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Categories: swabbing, happiness,
Form: Narrative

Driving In the Rain

...My car is really a boat.
I've tightened down the main mast,
And I'm swabbing the deck,
Staring at the plank,
Contemplating who to push.

In dreams, boats symbolize the body
As water does for l...
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Categories: swabbing, funny, happiness, natural disasters
Form: Free verse

Excused

...A quiet man,
a good man.
An exquisite  artist
in 
watercolor.
Self taught.

As a sailor,
he was excused
from chipping paint, 
swabbing decks,
or peeling spuds
by lighting up
when the Chi...
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Categories: swabbing, allegory, art, death, health,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things