Swallow Poems - Poems about Swallow

Bitter truth descends, Hard to take, the medicine, Acceptance dawns slow. ©bfa051725 ...

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When the time comes for the earth to swallow me, do not cover me with just old garments, but lay upon me a quilt woven from poems, from the bleeding verses that flowed through my veins, stitched from the letters that were both witness and burden. Let not a single word remain. Let no one ever read them, let no one knock...

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With our separation in progress, I feel the need to digress, And the subject of marriage address, Before I leave this address. I think my conclusion sound, And not out of bound, With no need to turn around, When my wife is around. When one partner becomes a willing slave, The other half will one day decide it is time to cave, And do without...

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This is the story in which I die and come back to life I thought it was over I felt powerless, purposeless but I of course discovered the opposite side of the coin I gave up, almost from the highest roof I’ve had in this city I could have flung myself I didn’t do it, I couldn’t be like he was Instead I was brave I called a number...

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Untitled Swallowed by the waves that birthed me, I shout at the moon as broken winged angels drag me by my bleeding feet. The scars that mark my skin are all shades of blue. They carry stories I whisper into the angry winds that sweep them back to me. The sleeping world crumbles under the weight of my...

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In the darkness of my room, I tell myself to swallow sadness like a venom, but my body is a vessel, an amphora for all of it, the rage, the grief, the longing, they sit in my throat, unmoving, and I think maybe I am not meant to be happy all the time, maybe my heart is built to...

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as speaking the truth mostly, haters encrease in your life secretly. as some people cannot swallow the truth, as it can stop them to breath....

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Own my pleasure, claim it for yourself; In a million little ways; Taste ...

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The time had come For the swallows to leave Travelling to South Africa Over the Pyrenees One chick in particular Was not ready to go Despite being urged by its siblings In a to-and-fro Into the stable Its mother flew “Tswit-tswit,” it sang There was one thing to do Using her claws She picked up her chick What she was about to commence Would make...

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I don't know if there's a way to describe spinning whilst still Reverse vertigo, maybe I'm still whilst spinning But what if pieces of me flew away Centrifugal forces dictate that happens I don't know what I'm left with after the spin Only that which is loose can disperse To be left with the deeply entrenched I'd be a spinning advocate if...

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We are alone.. A hard pill to swallow Perhaps..yet Alone..ends the lonesome Separation which will not Heal without that pill......

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From the chartreuse scene to a dusty bronze land. This the sky’s calling for their wings to soar, to disband. The sun is their shadow, they bathe in her honey-stained glory. Under the silence of the stars, they never surrender their flight story. The days are long, they travel beyond all rhyme or reason This is their journey, in life...

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HARD TO SWALLOW Last summer I bought an ice cream But although the taste was supreme While eating my cornet I swallowed a hornet When I think about it I scream...

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The young giraffe ate a hot red pepper The poor animal felt like a leper. The spicy fruit was too hot and it took Her long to digest for some greens to hook. The zoo keeper called it a Giraffe Park. Ostriches buried their heads in the dark. The ostrich wanted to say I'm sorry, Took too long for its neck just...

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When you stay with granddad, it seems life isn’t quite always a dream; some lessons are hard, like eating Swiss chard in order to get some ice cream!...

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