Swung Poems - Poems about Swung

... they built a ballpark over my bones, laid asphalt like a priest's last lie— no headstone, no name, just beer guts and baseball caps spilling nacho cheese where I once bled. I was twenty-thr......

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...Your car fishtailed in the slush that was already beginning to freeze, as if you couldn’t wait to get away after dropping me off at the library on Christmas Eve. I had just started readi......

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...It was past midnight in my college bed above the shuttered café— the whole town in a hush so complete I could hear my own breath and quiet it, when a crystalline voice floated in through the......

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...we met for no reason in lonely park where we happened to be, both there at the same, time for no real reason, just an accident really, that happenstance yen-ed to sublime. we both heard the ......

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...1. "I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..." E.E. Cummings You gave to me your heart when we were young. On stars we danced, and on the moon we swung. Unfa......

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...[Verse 1] We were hidin’ out where the lights ran low, You were talkin’ soft, just takin’ it slow. But I was somewhere else in my mind, Caught up in a face I’d left behind. That sideways grin,......

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... Tarzan Boy, with a jungle's loud call, Tried learning to waltz at a ball. He swung from the lights, And gave everyone frights, "This 'dancing' is no fun at all!" ©bfa031925 ......

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...The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two, with but an inning left to play. And when Cooney fell at first, and Barrows met the same, A hush of sorrow......

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... A lone petal unfurls not a bloom, not a flower, no use to bees, as one decrepit. It's on its knees trying to please all alone. It's an echo of a question, yet to be asked. It's a pose......

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...Walked in through those gates, the legends foretold/ valley of death? Try a circus of old/ The baddest dude charged, Timber! Came the call/ He fell like a Jenga tower, five stories tall/ A gang r......

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...was the whiskey and the jazz playing On too many black nights with too Many lonely women and not a poem Between them How many times can you run From the shadow of the voices that Surround you......

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......With that he went to a small chest, retrieved a bound-up scroll, and her eyes went quite wide with shock when the thing was unrolled, ’twas her emancipation, and he’d signed it with his name, “......

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...Just because someone isn’t wearing a bandage or shows no outward sign of illness doesn’t mean that they are not. Quote by poet. Sam lived two doors down and kept to himself, some thought hi......

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...Long ago, there were the halcyon days we once knew when we were young - gone like dollar matinees when from tree branches we swung. I remembered the dire words of song, that said changes in ......

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... Pardon me, sir But your fly is unzipped Deeply offended The ‘sir’ offered To sock me in the lip I responded in kind We swung at the same time ......

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