Swallow Poems | Examples

Swallow Hollow

Detection of orbs, orbiting my eyes

Perfection absorbs, and I'm paralyzed 

Broken and brittle, split in the middle 

She spoke without tittle, spit out a riddle


Follow the hollow, to swallow the hollow

Wallow at every turn

Wallow and swallow, or sorrow tomorrow 

Follow or ever burn


Baited, deflated, fated not sated

Orbiting eyes would burn

Hated, degraded, fated not mated

Some boys will never learn

A Tough Pill to Swallow

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

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When the time comes for the earth to swallow me

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 on my grave,
asking, We found the one with the spoken name,
but it wasn't him—where should we search now?
Burn those pages to ashes.
Scatter them in the wind of forgetfulness,
just as the man who wrote them
was never anything more than a shadow.
For words are merely echoes of a dream
that never caught the light,
and I, the dreamer who wished to be,
was nothing but an echo
in the silent ocean of the unknown universe,
a wave lost in the sea of forgotten time.
Let only silence be my epitaph,
for in its stillness I will live on,
in the memory of those who heard,
not just listened.
And thus, I go to bury myself in the heavens,
to be a cloud that rains memories,
a dream wandering in the eternal sleep
of a world without remembrance.

words of wisdom that are hard to swallow

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 a slave every time they want to shave,
Or offer to help help clean up the cave,
Or cook a meal by themselves to give their slave time to rave,
As sooner or later the novelty of having a slave,
That is to busy for time to rave,
Will no longer be something they want to brave,
And if someone more equal in the neighborhood,
   too decides it is time to be brave?

So, if you think someone is starting to be your slave,
Be brave,
And let your feelings permeate the cave,
Leaving no room for doubt that your marriage you want to save,
And you want them as your equal in the cave,
As sooner or later there will be no room in your life for a slave,
Even a good looking willing slave.

In Which I Swallow My Last Breath

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 
told someone
got help

a three day
suspension
from the real world 
can be more helpful
than I knew

every cell in my body
heaved
I swallowed my last breath
learned
to sink into the emotion

deeper and deeper
and deeper I sank,
down through the ice cap
miles thick of the trauma I froze in
down, down
into the waters below
I learned every feeling is allowed

and once I learned that,
the process of completion
could begin

Swallow your words

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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 tongue, acid words pour
from my blazing chest, my breath sets the skies on fire.

Swollen flesh, aching bone. Kings and queens watch me walk over the line
that goes along their spines and leads nowhere 
Kvg

How Dangerous It is to swallow the Truth

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.

Swallow Me Butterfly Oddquain

               Own
         my pleasure,
   claim it for yourself;
 In a million little ways;
              Taste 
    my inhibition falling 
 like clothes to the floor;
           Swallow me 
             down.

Baby Swallow

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 it think quick

Over the orchard
This mother carried its chick 
As it was time to use
That age-old trick

Down the chick went 
As the mother let go 
Its new found talent
It was about to show

Out stretched its wings
In the nick of time 
Gliding over
The wild mountain thyme

A Hard Pill To Swallow

We are alone..

A hard pill to swallow

Perhaps..yet

Alone..ends the lonesome

Separation which will not

Heal without that pill...

Flight of the Swallow

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 and in season.
Fragile hearts drum on in tawny twilight.
From feathered soldiers by day, to winged spectres of night.

Come morning, they are ushered, ablaze by warm, crimson skies 
In earthly kingdoms below, they are but the envy of every land creature’s eyes.

The compass points north, over mountain and rooftop they climb.
Beyond sun kissed valleys and storm swept seas they glide.
This the tale of the swallow, for in every heart of one, they do lovingly sing.
A voyage of courage is what the swallow bird does bring.

Hard To Swallow

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

A Tale a Giraffe Took a Long Time To Swallow

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 to worry.

The ostrich and the giraffe meant to race.
They came neck to neck and both had great pace
Medals won. Giraffe needed a ladder.
Guard fell from a height, it did not matter.

A new male giraffe was brought to the zoo
Lovingly they twined their necks through and through.
Soon life took its course with a baby boy.
The ostrich buried its head with no joy.

Chard To Swallow

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!

As Cheery As a Yellow Swallow

Happy as this beautiful bird of nature,
Which can easily find its food.
Cheery as the bird of paradise,
Which gives hope to the destitute.

Darling, spring comes once a year,
Your beauty is sublime and inexplicable.
Come to my window before sunset,
Come visit me at the old barn.

Cheerful as a yellow swallow of the meadow,
The one who knows how to enjoy life,
And who can sing the heroic odes of yesteryear.

You, the bird of freedom and of a perpetual spring,
My heart and my soul crave for you, you are my happiness,
My lucky lady, and the sincere friend of my pretty flowers.

Copyright © June 5,2014 Logerie Hébert, All Rights Reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems

This is a translation of the poem Heureuse Comme L'Hirondelle by Hebert Logerie

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