Swallows Poems - Poems about Swallows

Barn Swallows

swallows'
cobalt blue glistens 
as they dart catching insects
at dawn against foggy creek rise
freedom to be alive

Before the Rain

The swallows fly too low
The rain is soon to fall
This time, when time goes slow
I’m waiting for your call
And I can wait as long
As my days will come and go
And I don’t think it’s wrong
Though maybe I don’t know
Which fairytale to read
What character to choose
I’m blooming from a seed
You watered with your hose
Don’t take me

In the night that swallows distances with a rustle of wings

In the night that swallows distances with a rustle of wings,
I let myself be carried over the vast expanse of whispering dreams,
Seeking the holy light in the webs of destiny,
On the edge of this abyss of melancholy that envelops me.
I stand on the shore of thoughts, like a castaway of my own consciousness,
And gaze into

Paisley Swallows

That one lost their tongue
somewhere along the way
long ago, the sound,
doesn’t come out the same
anymore, so they roll it up 
like a carpet containing 
a nakedly dead body
of blunt words 
like unplucked violins
untuned to how it all 
really works 
begging to be heard,
and the flowery prose, 
purple and bruised 
like over-ripe fruit
teeth rottingly sugary sweet,

Love Swallows Hate

as love swallows hate
folks of different colours
 smile, & Angels clap hands 

August 28/2023

Songs of Summer Swallows

I hear serenading songs of summer swallows
and ruffling feathers of roosting starlings.
I catch the sweet scent of heirloom roses 
that have not yet budded upon the bush.
All these things I know have been given to me
as surely as I see you standing before my eyes.

Like a Bevy of Swallows

Like a bevy of swallows released from a fountain
    the pageantry of a balloon race set in the mountains

  A throng of graduates hurling blue caps in the air 
    ~ so, too, passion's first kiss in a fairy-tale affair

Day Light Burst Swallows Up the Night-

Challenge the Oh wrath of day;
Corner light brilliancy to swallow the dark;
All I see, never be;
This the distance height of the day sunlight;
Swallows up the darkness whole;
the nights no more the night is gone away;
Sparrows and Robins nestled in  branches as they sway;
Day light burst shallows up the night;

6/20/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr

swallows hiku

swallows' offspring
 
            leave their nest soaring . . .

                        sky is a playground

Barn Swallows

Spring tramples the detachment of cold
          it heals a winter's damaged heart
Buds peddle new beauty as trees poke
          roots from defrosted ground

Barn swallows swoop in the cool air 
        

Poultry In a Dish So Round It Makes the Swallows Go Down

S and P

Receding towards grassy plains, fizzing with the sparks produced from unnatural synthesizers. I am tired, letting out an engulfing yawn. My ship, torn and withered as it may be, is uniquely mine. I have never doubted this once, though I have twice; I will not get into that. 

What I will get into

Nesting Swallows

After winged flight at dusk the swallows rest
I hear their chirping inside my tallest chimney
Where they have found their perfect nest.

The swallows of late do not think me friendly
For chilly air has prompted the fireplace lighted
Without intention to treat the nesting birds unkindly.

Held off as long I could to keep the swallows unindicted
Even while the

Swallows

the swallows soaring
close under dark storm nimbus
while others cower

9 December 2019

Swallows

Swallows
- for the morphologically inclined

No sheep 
to bumble about alone
weighed down 
with individuality
upon the ground
we surge 
in sweet 
and singing swiftness
across the sky
shape-shifting 
all as one
to sculpt the bright 
and empty air
with wings of light

Swallows Houses Whole

Since the earth buried my home
in a sinkhole
I’ve shown signs of psychosis;
feeling out of touch with reality.
One day without warning the ground opened
and my house sank
like a derelict ship
pummeled by waves of dirt.
At first it seemed an illusion!
For It slowly tilted
lost leverage
and slid down
a steep bevel of loose earth
until all that was left
was a fragment

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