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Swiftness Poems - Poems about Swiftness

Premium MemberThe Pirates of Wales

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The Challenge ~ The Milford Haven Harbor shielded Wales
from pirates making merchant ships their prey.
Her ports have cradled many from the gales
and swaddled sailors as her pirates pla...
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Categories: swiftness, adventure,
Form: Sonnet

The Wrong Train

...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
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Categories: swiftness, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberBONDED STIFF

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BONDED STIFF

Our love knows no swiftness;
It's tied and bowed in stiffness:-

Oh, our love is no played game; 
Rather, it's an everlasting bond attained:-

May our love ever be as if a R...
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Categories: swiftness, analogy, beauty, how i
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberBorn For This

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I’m  born a stream with winter’s thaw.
On swiftness from steep slopes I draw.
Beneath the sun, I gather steam.
With winter’s thaw, I’m born a stream.

I warmer grow as on I run.
I gather stea...
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Categories: swiftness, river,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberConnecting the dots, signs of the times part one Q and A

...Q  What God A Minute's? theme song has been circulating inside of my mind?

A  Hallelujah, I will meet you in the rapture, I will meet you in the middle of the air.

Q  Do you think that the Holy...
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Categories: swiftness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose



Twenty Brief Springs

...Take advantage of those non enduring things,
they are similar in swiftness to evanescent time:
it's the cleverest thief stealing your last dime,
who saves in an amber jar copper pennies?

Does y...
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Categories: swiftness, allusion, anger, anxiety, beauty,
Form: Rhyme

The Bustle of Time

...A new day dawns,  
I’m welcomed into its embrace,
I journey its length and breadth,  
I search its depth.  
Time is in motion,
It reaches the end of its journey,  
Its continuum collapses.

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Categories: swiftness, inspirational, time,
Form: Free verse

Had I But Only Different Parent's

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My dearest,
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Had I been born to different parents, three lives would have spun differently, like threads redirected on the loom of fate.
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Perhaps I would have been bold enough to step fr...
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Categories: swiftness, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhose Words are these Really

...I read my words and laugh
For are they mine……..really?
They manipulate themselves into my typing hands
Before I can decipher whose words they are.
They come fast and hard.
My fingers are clickin...
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Categories: swiftness, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLight that lights all lights

...Line of Inquiry:
 “we look for that light eternal  
that does not come and go 
the screen upon which life plays 
cognised in staid stillness slow” - Unseeking Seeker



Let there be light
An...
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Categories: swiftness, bible, christian,
Form: Terza Rima

Premium MemberRudolph's Broken Leg

...Santa's reindeer were in preparation,
training for the big occasion,
getting themselves in top condition
for their Christmas Eve expedition.

But on this particular Christmas,
Rudolph was exper...
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Categories: swiftness, christmas, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Hopeless Movements

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At dawn, when the sky smiles...
I bow, pray at length to seek.
If true, as God would have me;
At it, my swiftness should awake hope.

Where there seems none, my styles...
Possibly without r...
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Categories: swiftness, adventure, africa, confidence, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Their Last Moment Of Glory

...This uncompromising Sunday
has agreed to let us enjoy
what is left of a boring day
as we ardently seek the brief presence
of a radiant sunset resembling red clay,
attesting the inevitable eviden...
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Categories: swiftness, america, beach, death, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Their Last Moment Of Glory

...This uncompromising Sunday
has agreed to let us enjoy
what is left of a boring day
as we ardently seek the brief presence
of a radiant sunset resembling red clay,
attesting the inevitable eviden...
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Categories: swiftness, america, beach, death, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLike A Thousand Fires Affirmations

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 Like A Thousand Fires I Blaze Inwards and Radiate in a Solar Explosion of 
 Light. I AM The Sun Up High, Scintillating like Stardust in the Night Sky. My 
 Eyes gleam like Sapphire, my Heart pul...
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Categories: swiftness, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

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