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Swop Poems - Poems about Swop

Premium MemberMaternal Instincts

...The crow dived in one full swop
A chick to be picked for lunch for her chick's
So the mother hen in a daring response 
fluttered her wings to meet the crow in mid air
To redeem her chick's
This ...
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Categories: swop, adventure, anti bullying, devotion,
Form: Free verse

The Battle

...Pikes held high,
Flags fill the sky,
Drummer boys sound the beat,
Musket men are on their feet.

White smoke swirls, ram down the ball really hard,
Pour in the gunpowder to make the charge.

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Categories: swop, anxiety, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberThe Rest Of The Story Part Two

...One often tries to set things back,
to fix and sort without the knack,
HUMPTY DUMPTY comes to mind,
don’t be silly, rash or blind,
but looking round as best one can,
for stuff alike a top class ...
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Categories: swop, care, character, courage, deep,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Rest Of The Story

...One often tries to get things back,
to fix and sort without the knack,
HUMPTY DUMPTY comes to mind,
don’t be silly, rash or blind,
but looking hard as best one can,
for stuff alike a top class p...
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Categories: swop, care, deep, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Plea For Awesome Phrase

...On a shattered pebble beach my kernel,
becomes this dervish dancing to the maniacal symbol rash tune,
of inchoate monsoon grass beat timpani,
that’s dimly frowned on by sonic virtuoso,
but terms ...
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Categories: swop, care, character, color, creation,
Form: Free verse



Entitled

...I can't believe your audacity
Well actually!
Your so consumed with rapcisty
The bling life has blinded you
You can't even see what's Infront of you

Who even are you?  
I don't even know you!
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Categories: swop, august, corruption, integrity, money,
Form: Rhyme

An African Tale

...I am Urundi, the daughter of a king,
     I want to tell you a story about my destiny.
    The king wanted a son, but mother had me.
    She devised a plan before she would be hang.

    She swo...
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Categories: swop, africa, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme

Pigging

...enthralled forr noww

ineptta jazza bop   the stomp    "she" 2is a sheep  she said
       the.traces
  pearls plentyful made in skyy/  scuffed
/landscapes/embraces/ invented  /fluxes
rendetion ...
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Categories: swop, birth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLost Her Mum

...Lost her mum at thirteen
Worse news there’s never been.
Her youth alone
No mum to phone.
Dad tried his best
Once mum was put to rest.
It’s not the same
She still felt the pain.
No mum when we...
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Categories: swop, death, loss, mother,
Form: Rhyme

Governments

...If I was God
I would be angry with the Government
you fight and you bicker
and you get nothing done

Look at England 
trying to get out of a contract
you want your leaders to be effective
the...
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Categories: swop, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative

Wanderlust

...I travel to quench my thirst
To break away from everything I know
In an attempt to meet a different sun

And to finally feel the snow

I travel to swop my language
And taste the life you live
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Categories: swop, appreciation, earth, freedom, how
Form: Rhyme

Sanmati My Inspiration

...Sanmati, my messenger, is no more a milksop.
Ardent though is she never will yawp.
Nagging sometimes though in some shop.
Merrily walks in crowd alone till atop.
Amends her needs; tackles one wit...
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Categories: swop, daughter,
Form: Monorhyme

Books a Resource Part 1

...Book is the only stop
Where all halt from top
For knowledge or whop
Of all sort and thoughts slop.
Though it clear drains prop
For teacher or for carhop.
They are vaguely clear lop
Whenever re...
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Categories: swop, books,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberIf I Could Change the World

...Sometimes I don't switch on TV, the radio stays dumb
and finishing a newspaper can leave me feeling numb.
What is it with this world of ours, where did it all go wrong?
How could the higher-ups el...
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Categories: swop, environment, humor, world,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAmuse Pursuits 3

...One by one
They come and go;
Bus-stop blues


On the way out,
Smile as you go;
Embrace forgetfulness


Surge of passion
No need to feel;
Go with the flow


Bedtime stories
We swop tal...
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Categories: swop, conflict,
Form: Haiku

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