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Swell Up Poems - Poems about Swell Up

What It’s Like Without You
...Knots in my stomach never untied I feel them tighten more and more each time tightness in my chest inside and out tears as they are swell up in my eyes waiting to be released Trapped in a l......

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Categories: swell up, 9th grade, dad, death,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member Envious Emerald Eyes
...Envious emerald eyes eat everything they see Seeking soulful meals sinning repenting reinventing Youth is no excuse for the babies are truthful Your selfishness serves only you yet Can be viewed ......

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Categories: swell up, art, poetry,
Form: Free verse



NO RETURN
...From the moment You met him Til the moment He left me behind You wondered That one is wonky Wayward, away from the norm Isolated, uncontrolled Willful without a cause A free radical Wh......

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Categories: swell up, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let My People Shine
...At sixteen People's Bible Church sent me from rural Michigan farm lands to Moody Bible Institute in siren-screaming Chicago Church fathers assumed, despite curious evidence to the contrary, ......

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Categories: swell up, health, integrity, muse, music,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The boy who can't feel
...Beware the young bastard that was birthed here by sin, The silver haired boy beneath large piles of bricks... Beware, beware, the young boy named Cage. Beware, beware, he can't feel a thing. ......

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Categories: swell up, dark, fantasy, silence, symbolism,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Makin Rice Krispy Treats
...' Twas entangled in marshmallows. Trying to make rice Krispie's. That could share with goodfellows. Maybe should have tried Swiss cheese. A system tried to develop. Waxed paper did......

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Categories: swell up, food,
Form: Other
Premium Member Trinidad
... I Remember when days were long and all de children do is play, or how de burnin sun hot like fire and snow cone all melt away when I was jus a lad in Trinida......

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Categories: swell up, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Mouse Is Coming
...The joyful merry exuberant Christmas mouse is coming! The Christmas mouse is coming! The Christmas mouse is coming! I thought my aunt was daffy; she has never been fond of mice. This is differen......

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Categories: swell up, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Still Running
...I'm still running from the spell God cast now Why can't I be free from all this evil? Poison swell up my optic, medieval Elixirs mend emotions for a stay A night high is better than a nightmare ......

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Categories: swell up, art, bible, black african
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Scents of Sweet Honeysuckle
...Scents of sweet honeysuckle swell up through the lush Over-grown path to the old cemetery at Spy Rock Hill, there, Fresh-cut flowers have decayed like piles of dead tree brush. Scents of sweet ho......

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Categories: swell up, flower, memory,
Form: Triolet
Tragedy of Man
...All the subtle poking and trying Only helps swell up the underlying A jibe here and there every opportune while Ambush and surprise in style A fight whose medium blows can be felt Escalating to ......

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Categories: swell up, africa, men,
Form: Rhyme
Kaiper
...I can't go to school, so now I'm dumb dumb. You don't want to know of what I will become. I stay home all day and I sit on my bum. My parents won't enroll me. They say, "You see, um.... Making su......

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Categories: swell up, class, dad, kindergarten, mom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Hot Christmas Date
...‘Twas the night before Christmas As I was getting ready for my hot date Putting on sexy lace, hoping he’s not late Hanging mistletoe and smiling as I wait I hear his car pull in, he’s now at my......

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Categories: swell up, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
How Do You Tell Your Beautiful Child
...^How do you tell your beautiful child? That you watched play and run so wild. You promised to love and to protect, To teach them kindness and respect. The closer that awful day draws near, You......

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Categories: swell up, cancer, deep, emotions, father
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member You Would Know For Sure
...I have spent my whole life loving others, but receiving very little love in return. There were a few times when I thought that the person I was with loved me, but time always had a way of chang......

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Categories: swell up, cute, emotions,
Form: Narrative

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