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Swarthy Poems - Poems about Swarthy

Changing Tack
...Enrolling as a pirate is much harder than it seems, You’ll need to speak in present tense and chase your wildest dreams. Well, once you’ve trained a parrot and been measured for your hook, You ha......

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Categories: swarthy, anger, boat, endurance, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Drawn From Water
...Hear ye all, henceforth, Let it be proclaimed, the first five books are synchronously known as The Pentateuch. Leading faiths acclaimed to be Christian and Jewish drawn from stone. Claimed author......

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Categories: swarthy, analogy, appreciation, bible, dedication,
Form: Sonnet



Get It
...It keeps calling, And you keep calling it. The more you think and feel, the more you see how perfectly you both fit. That thing... That beautiful thing you have to get. So be wise and ignore ......

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Categories: swarthy, beautiful, confidence, creation, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Some Banking Hanky Panky
...A sweet young bank teller named Doris Had a crush on her co-worker, Boris. But one day while at work The young clerk went berserk When she caught Boris banging the manager, Morris. Doris' secr......

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Categories: swarthy, humor,
Form: Light Verse
MAGNIFICATION
...Close up, on the smooth couth meretricious pod, vibrantly violating my optics violently, even through the microscope. Its swarthy stare is maliciously resplendent and evoked from parsimony. ......

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Categories: swarthy, adventure, extended metaphor, flower,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love's Blind Eye
...Love always thinks it's chosen well, Discerns no qualities to criticize. In the loved one all is loveable, And defects become virtues in a lover's eyes. To speak, or write, or sing of love, A lo......

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Categories: swarthy, love,
Form: Rhyme
Groundhog Day - Thursday, February 2nd 2023
...The date of the celebration (the second day of February) coincides with medieval feast of Candlemas, and its pre-Christian predecessor, Imbolc, a day also rich in folklore. An old Scottish pro......

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Categories: swarthy, 12th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Rampant and Endemic Police Brutality
...Rampant and endemic police brutality... flourishes against United States citizens of color going on three years post George Floyd short lived heightened awareness when #blacklivesmatter in......

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Categories: swarthy, absence, abuse, africa, anger,
Form: Free verse
Not His People, Part I
...When Enrique came too, his head aching, and his memory scrambled royally, he found himself firmly tied to a chair, his eyes were bleary, it was hard to see. Something…a man, was standing before......

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Categories: swarthy, america, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Narrative
The Talk Before the Walk
..."The talk before the walk" Love Caution Make me understand how you are able to break my heart before dating you? You took my breath away and l know ours beat in sync we are a rhythm constructed......

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Categories: swarthy, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Coloring Smiling Faces Donned With Faux Missing Teeth,
...Coloring smiling faces donned with faux missing teeth, and waxing poetic lip schtick adorned with moustaches Swarthy, spooky, scary carved pumpkin faces thickly materialized out of thin air a......

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Categories: swarthy, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Rhyme
Blaze of Glory
...(for Sally) Sally, swarthy mare of a serene plain Clad in habiliments of nubile grace Whose name is the opium That soothes the tremor of restive hearts. Like the full moon that adorns the night,......

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Categories: swarthy, crush, hyperbole, love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ghost Train Seven
...Ghost train seven was right on time. I had put on the track one lone dime. It was crushed in half, which amazed Ted, my friend. He could see and hear no train, in the end. Here is the dime for ......

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Categories: swarthy, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mirror
...The Mirror When I look in the mirror I don’t see me, I see who I used to be. A little lost girl that was so abused and so misused, so ashamed of who she was, so helpless and so selfless. Yet som......

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Categories: swarthy, change, child abuse, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Devils Hue
...I saw it longing for sovereignty and cynical toward chastity I heard it unleash a perpetual claim Let the swarthy be disdain Subtle while shape-shifting our Constitution toward heavy discontent I......

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Categories: swarthy, black african american, character,
Form: Rhyme

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