Swills Poems

The House of Lords

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Bored of deplored 

Hordes of frauds

On abhorred company boards

Who applaud flawed

Seats stored…for cheats

Apply or buy on the fly

Enjoy till they die


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Categories: swills, political,
Form: Rhyme

Land of My Fathers

...Growing up in a mining town was great
playing on the coal tips
Coming home black as the firegrate
But everything was dusty from the pits
The black mountains and smoke filled sky
The way of life ...
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Categories: swills, childhood, education, growing up,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberCrap Format

...Long wanders across hills
Expiring - Three of my steps were one of my Dad's 
Halting will

Refuelling near
Banks brandished fennell freely had 
Revered

Herb young
Stung by green glad 
Tong...
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Categories: swills, childhood, father daughter, memory,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA 'Chicken' One Can Milk

...A ‘Chicken’ One Can Milk!

A ‘Chicken’ One Can Milk!
 
Known fact, Hindus believe that no cow should get eaten,
that milk is enough, and their flesh should not sweeten
o...
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Categories: swills, humor, religion, science,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhisper To Me--

...Adverse noncompliance
Midst the calms so quiet
A hush of  flutters quiet quick's
Whispers to me
Come 
Whisper to me calm quietly
Bomb booms the swills of a sound barrier
Hush looms swe...
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Categories: swills, analogy, appreciation, dream, how
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberQuietus

...In a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent 
a martyr wades - 
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain
alas the thirsting self-absorbed swamp
distills and swills her stewed sil...
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Categories: swills, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse

Pencraft

...I'll write of things lamentable like poor shipwrecked loves,
Tempest-tossed by bestial winds behind unfeeling storms;
Ripped apart by the furious middles of swift-gusting winds,
Voyaging to dream-...
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Categories: swills, art,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Sixth Lake

...Deep within the wooded thick of a coniferous forest's vascular limbs,
A chorus of loons cry in mosaic croons which echo from where they swim.

They swim in a lake, the sixth of eight; a link in a ...
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Categories: swills, imagery, nature, water,
Form: Couplet

The Banker and the Bastard

...Born to different fathers they were never that close
But their mother insisted they keep in touch
They never had much in common apart from the love for their Mum
One was drawn by the magnetism of ...
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Categories: swills, addiction, brother, care, career,
Form: Light Verse

Five Chastushka

...The rich 
Are resentful
Of the poor
Feel 
They have to 
Pay more
Taxes 
Then the poor
Hence hide
Their
Money 
Yet still 
Salute their 
Nations 
Flag
And show 
Hunger for wars
It is p...
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Categories: swills, art, baby, baptism, baseball,
Form: Chastushka

Premium MemberTrembles and Thrills

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There's an active young lady who swills
every drop that adventure's cup spills.
If it's filled to the brim,
she will start at the rim
and swim down til she's in ...
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Categories: swills, adventure, courage, fun,
Form: Limerick

Long Is the Road That Lies Ahead

...Long the road that lies ahead

Three mice with a block of cheese and a thick slice of bread
To travel in green pastures and meet lots of animals of which some are friendly and some may eat you for...
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Categories: swills, art,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberA Willow Tree

...Someday I'd like to wander free
like butterfly, like bumblebee,
perhaps to plant a willow tree
beside the silent solemn sea,

before these things exist no more,
from mountain top to shifting sh...
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Categories: swills, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Red Sun

...Rising red Sun ball of fire
                                                gleaming reddish reflection
                                                 a crown of two avalanches
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Categories: swills, sun,
Form: Dodoitsu

Alcohell

...Vodka swills my belly with fire
It makes my heart pound
It makes my veins itch

Nasty thoughts swirl round
What kind of woman thinks this?
What kind of girl does this?

Fingers itch for a blade
A riv...
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Categories: swills, angst, fear, recovery from...,
Form: Verse

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