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Swales Poems - Poems about Swales


Premium Member Lessons of Life
...As fortunes wax and wane In life’s large swells and swales, We try to ponder and remain The person who, in youth, prevailed. But our youthful views have changed, And our existing needs do ......

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Categories: swales, fate, growing up, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Lies Ahead
...What lies ahead, I do not know, But I will confidently go Along this rough and tumble trail O’er mountain pass, dank, boggy swales, To scale the heights, be brought down low. Though ‘twas orda......

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Categories: swales, journey,
Form: Rondeau



At Sea Ii
...At Sea II The start of an ocean voyage starts like life; fresh and new And best served with a brew The shoreline disappearing from view and star bright Replacing the street lights fading fast......

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Categories: swales, adventure, inspirational, sea, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Skink's Tail
...The man who took the tail of a skink Is safe from the chocolate mink He stopped on foot to breathe to think The man who took the tail of a skink He gained the powers of the magical skink He gr......

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Categories: swales, animal, longing, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Revived
...Surrounding self with shells of snails, You lie on warming shifting sand Sifting through your open hand, Adrift with tidal rifted swales. Charting ebbs and flows of sun, Wisps of clouds revea......

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Categories: swales, beach, endurance, introspection, ocean,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium Member Adrift With the Summer Breeze
...It was a fortnight and two days ago when my spirit set adrift with the summer breeze; wandering the four corners of this earth trying hard my curiosity to please. Searching out the very meaning......

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Categories: swales, love, romantic, summer,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Beaches Breached and Broached
...Beaches are where breaches adorn like brooches Waves curl up to breach the surface of sea, Then break, plunging headstrong to broach on shore. Wales and dolphins breach off the beach with spit and......

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Categories: swales, beach,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Blue Dishes Stuck To the King
...From high above and down below Bewitching winds from Hades blow That spread the river’s current thin And drown with love unsinkable men; Around they swirl and whisper lies Of fabled lands wher......

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Categories: swales, daughter, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Modern Love Story
...In scratchy swales emitting Clorox gas, Matador houseflies cross paralyzed eyes; A kaleidoscope scene where jagged glass Cracks beneath footsteps of love’s promised lies; Forgotten by choice th......

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Categories: swales, loneliness, lost,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Freedom's Call
...Far across the hills and dales, Ringing o'er the rills and swales: Ever nearer, ever louder; Ever dearer, gaining power. Drawing hearts and minds to one; Once sounded out, and once begun Men ca......

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Categories: swales, america, courage, freedom, soldier,
Form: Acrostic
A Man of Green
...A Man of Green (Valentine’s Day) Blast breathed, bob booted, fiercely tramping, he sweeps down upon the land, hard browed, frozen white, bellowing, Rude Boreas, the prince of winter, rages, t......

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Categories: swales, valentines day,
Form: Blank verse
Round and Round As Round We Go
...The world cannot hate you but Me, it hates because I speak in that, it's evil ? Yet yourself they shall also despise; for I have lifted you from her crib making you Mine although their words smooth a......

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Categories: swales, art, baby, cancer,
Form: I do not know?
Faith, Moved This Mountain
...Never wishing to wade into too much drama As her ambulance rushes by; wailing and why.. Should one catch this spindrift adrift amid, their Churning sea these swales, of ocean tide miseries ? Zeph......

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Categories: swales, art, baby, cancer, love,
Form: I do not know?
I Wish We Had Our Own Trails
...I wish that I just had my own road— I wish that I had my own trail— I wish the stories hadn’t been told ‘Bout how there’s now no range to sail. It seems that all the land is now fenced And the......

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Categories: swales, cowboy-western, introspection, nostalgia, sad,
Form: Cowboy Poetry

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