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Swale Poems - Poems about Swale

Moorland Ponies
...There are wild horses in the heather; their neighing follows the wake of hewing wind-wraiths. The ponies are hardy and stout, they go in and out of the clouds, slip through swale and dingle. ......

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Categories: swale, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Return To Peace
...The dice are cast. You watch them As they tumble slowly away, into the swale Where you rush to search for them. But as you push away the sharp blades There are only stones, wiped clean of numbe......

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Categories: swale, confusion, emotions, imagination, peace,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Railroaded
... Design obscures Divine Railroaded by a petulant narrative Observe the perfection of a creation undone Injection deserving celebration by the hallowed of darkness On every point, a bu......

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Categories: swale, environment, humanity, science, society,
Form: Free verse
The Tops
...up a steep and narrow road reach the tops wilderness reclaims a verge of wintery snags land juts and tilts hauls out lays treeless clumps and hags pitch up stricken soil heap above the mir......

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Categories: swale, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Change
...Waking to that familiar fabric of dawn, pink-hued  Hewn from the previous black quilted night It dawns on me: At a time, it shall prevail  upon us all, the unwelcome blessing of suffering And ......

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Categories: swale, break up, change,
Form: Free verse



Frog Legs
...You may not know I have the worlds biggest toe I also have a gigantic frown The biggest frown ever seen around I dropped a slimy creek stone and it went splat And flattened my great toe quite ......

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Categories: swale, animal, food, pain,
Form: Rhyme
The Unplanned Journey
...THE UNPLANNED JOURNEY by JOHN M. ARRIBAS I had a great breakfast gave a nice tip to the girl I was late, had to swerve to avoid hitting a squirrel I was really lucky when I crossed the......

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Categories: swale, allegory, allusion, death, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
The Captain
...He sat all alone, drinking jim beam and coke Looking out as the waves crashed ashore He kept to himself, drinking jim beam and coke As the storm winds would batter the door He'd only come......

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Categories: swale, america, bereavement, child, dad,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Winter Sun
...Upon this yearly powdered dale, where leafless birch in talon-ed stance come begging in their circumstance, the snowflakes fell in silent veil as thick as densely woven cloth to gale a new ye......

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Categories: swale, snow, sun, winter,
Form: Rhyme
Days of the Year
...The days of the year has quickly flown by collecting aspects of serenity in the clouds, for passing storms to stir the tremulous sky, and try to make futility multiply in floods. But from un......

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Categories: swale, birthday, blessing, celebration, cheer
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stone
...The tale below was carved one night upon the stone, by candlelight ...most won’t believe, but some just might .........most won’t believe, but some just might Prefa......

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Categories: swale, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form: Ballad
A Tale of Survival
...A naive grasshopper spun in the death web of a starving wolf spider, Providing hours of facination and wonder to the curious child He too must learn survival of the fittest the laws and rules his ......

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Categories: swale, childhood, growing up, child,
Form: Free verse
Sizes Matter
..."sizes matter" chirped the hatter before popping the size 8 and 1/4 on his head and jumping theatrically into his bed hat and clothes all snuggled into dreams "things aren't always what they seem" ......

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Categories: swale, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Free Land
...Beyond the paved two-lane with its solid centerline, and bounded by NO TRESPASS signs; beyond the turn-off onto gravel and the last barking dog who keeps pace with my hubcap; to a landing wh......

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Categories: swale, nature
Form: Free verse
More Human
...There's a gift that man has, that's uniquely our own, not in fishes, nor birds, nor beasts that do roam. And we doubt that in Heaven, where matter is not, that Angels can touch, this wet little do......

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Categories: swale, introspection, life, nature,
Form: Ballad

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