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Swains Poems - Poems about Swains

Pretty Paradox
...We are two flames, Colliding and clashing, Eroding our names, Each other, slashing. Merging miraculously, In some eternal timeline, Vowing velvety love variously, Flowing and floating as fi......

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Categories: swains, beautiful, beauty, deep, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member March in the Mild Tropics
... March in the Mild Tropics Seeing the sun shining for the first time Just a few days before the Ides of......

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Categories: swains, birthday, march, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Protection of Nature
...“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Albert Einstein Protection of Nature Erelong on t......

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Categories: swains, appreciation, beauty, environment, nature,
Form: Sonnet
She Stood
...transfixed watching fish and fauna sauntered eyes darting to her bipedal crank species nearly gone The fish of stars slutters across the glass Crabs eyeballed sidelined Horses of the sea can......

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Categories: swains, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spinster Ruth
...There was once an old spinster named Ruth Who was renowned for stretching the truth "Tho' many young swains wooed me, I could have married" said she, ......

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Categories: swains, humorous, marriage,
Form: Limerick



Fate of Mankind
...Fate Of Mankind... (this prognosticator ordains, which if came to pass no brains) necessary to impress any goo goo dolls, nor swains!) Cited in crosshairs of thermonuclear warfare quite a......

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Categories: swains, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Lay of Sir Donald
...The Lay of Sir Donald (Or: Le Chanson de Donald) An orange man – of red and trailing tie, Small hands, and copious twitter-feed – sing I! Most staunch ’gainst Saracen and Mede is he, Bare-ar......

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Categories: swains, funny, political,
Form: Political Verse
Who Is Tokollo
...Who is Tokollo ? what is he ? That all our swains commend him ? holy,smart and ravishing is he; the heaven such grace did lend him, that he might be admired be. Is he fair as he is holy ? ......

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Categories: swains, cute love,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Corn Huskin' Bee Circa 1892
...In November when frost was on the punkin and corn was stacked in shocks, And the snows began to fall and geese flew southward in V-shaped flocks, 'Twas time to gather in the corn for a huskin' bee ......

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Categories: swains, humorous, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alone
...Guess which star I am looking at and there let your gaze and mind dwell, So if our bodies cannot lie together at least our minds will! For sweetly as the flesh of swains and maids repose in a ......

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Categories: swains, loneliness, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Steamboat Is A-Comin'
..."Steamboat is a-comin' 'round the bend!" My! Oh my! The wonders it might portend, As it stopped by sleepy towns along the Missisip', Dodgin' stumps and wayward rafts on its monthly New Awlins trip......

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Categories: swains, boat, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
The Swains
...THE SWAINS Under cumulus clouds, grew cauliflowers. He planted them with love because I adorn them when they were harvested to the table of healthy man, my husband; sons; and brothers. A......

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Categories: swains, appreciation, farm, good morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unbearable Beauty In Brown
...Unbearable beauty in brown Was Lily the toast of the town. She had such a fine air With her brown auburn hair As she danced in brown velvet gown. The swains were swooning for her. A few fisticuffs d......

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Categories: swains, betrayal,
Form: Light Verse
No More Pain
...Tired going here and there, Tired of being aware! Sick of building useless hopes, Sick of being on unstable slopes! Vexed facing disappointment, Vexed keeping perseverant! Done carrying on, Done bein......

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Categories: swains, adventure, age, confusion, courage,
Form: ABC
I Only Eat Worms On Wormday
...WORLD BORE ONE I don’t know very much at all But I know oak trees grow strong and tall I don’t know why I sometimes stumble and fall I know what I have, what I want and that which I need And t......

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Categories: swains, peaceme,
Form: Quatrain

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