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Swats Poems - Poems about Swats

Premium Member AFT THE STORM
...aft’ the storm’s the cure the salt licks his face though trenches’s formed as foam settles down will his Tessie rest in his windward eyes will she lay on his treasure chest hearing the e......

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Categories: swats, longing, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unassailable Purity
...It's the look of anticipation in a preschoolers eyes as he holds your hand near the playground gazing in skies. It's the prolonged kiss when the preacher says to the couple side by side “I prono......

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Categories: swats, cute,
Form: Couplet



This Should Not Be Happening In 2023
...Forget being an anarchist Forget being a feminist Forget being anti racist Her body is swaying to the sound of music A man holds her waist and they dance His fingers go lower She swats them a......

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Categories: swats, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nothing Moves the Moon
...The customs men shake their heads and watch the women enter Mexico. Three with skirts, white socks, one with jeans and proper blouse. Seventeen, eighteen just out of Concord Academy in a blac......

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Categories: swats, mom, moon, war,
Form: Free verse
The Good Old Days Not For Contest
...Taking your sisters skates taring them apart nailing them to wood skating to the park Selling homing pigeons For fifty cents waiting for their return Then, selling them once again My fir......

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Categories: swats, old,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Bear and the Ballerina
...grizzly grazing a meadow pretending not to notice the dancer wind shifting-it stands horribly- tall sniffs the air pivots nonchalantly methodically swaggers appetite enhanced moment ignited b......

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Categories: swats, anti bullying, nature,
Form: Free verse
No Flies On Me
...No Flies on Me What is it that makes these creatures so hated With an image in life that’s always berated Could it be their allure to the dung and decay Where their babies are born, what more c......

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Categories: swats, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Silky Kitty
... I brush for fifteen minutes my kitty, as she growls, wiggles and struggles and swats; all I want to do is make her pretty, I just need to get rid of a few knots. Oh, all that she......

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Categories: swats, care, cat,
Form: Sonnet
Oh Yes I Can See
...To detect a nuance of a sound, of a voice, quickly learnt if blind, the nuance of facial expression aid the sighted, eyes, silent voices, yet for all that can see, there are those who a......

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Categories: swats, nature,
Form: Verse
I, Said the Fly
... I said the fly, "Have the need to pry, my best point of view is your ceiling. There I can spot any swats your concealing. Us flies still can not understand why, you humans find swatting......

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Categories: swats, nonsense,
Form: Personification
Premium Member My Wild Cat
...I have a loving, smart, Bengal wild cat Many different behaviors he shows He is strong and very dominant at that He hates to be told what to do, he knows So much, that sometimes when I turn aro......

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Categories: swats, cat,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Lady
...My small cute kitty cat is a lady. How delicately she creeps along the bed! As if to beg my pardon, she apprehensively proceeds until, finding the spot she prefers, she settles, ......

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Categories: swats, cat, , cute,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Snakes and Hummingbirds
...To love, agapic and/or erotic, is a positive economic-political relational choice to trust whomever and whatever is our Other right now with open caring empathy, even when we may feel like withd......

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Categories: swats, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member ''soft and Silky''
... I brush for fifteen minutes my kitty, as she growls, wiggles and struggles and swats; all I want to do is make her pretty, I just need to get rid of a few knots. Oh, all that she......

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Categories: swats, cat,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Senryu Series - Broken
...reaching for new heights I climb a step stool -- feline eyes watch perched up high cat swats my reaching hand -- a step backwards a scream resounds -- the floor breaks my fall and also my......

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Categories: swats, cat, hurt, pain,
Form: Senryu

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