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Best Swift Poems

Below are the all-time best Swift poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of swift poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Chimney Swift
My precious chimney swift
Envy alone
Has named you so mundane
Tethered to the slightest pause
Amid your life upon the wing
Describing you as drab
Cigar shaped
And flying like a...

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Categories: swift, appreciation, bird, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swift, the Rills
swift, swift, the rills do run
          swift, from high the mountain
     ...

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Categories: swift, analogy, appreciation, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Date With Taylor Swift
"I loooove Taylor Swift. I'm a devoted Swiftie." 
"GAAA! Why didn't you tell me that on the first date?" 
"Excuse me?"
"Look, I'm a classic rock...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: swift, humor,
Form: Narrative




Premium Member When Swift, Bird of Hermes, Its Last Flight Takes
When Swift, "Bird of Hermes", Its Last Flight Takes

When swift "Bird of Hermes" its fast flight takes
path through nether worlds, its tall broken stones
phantom from...

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Categories: swift, appreciation, art, humanity, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How To Stop Swift and Stealthy Time That Brings Death
How to stop swift and stealthy time that brings death?
Must we think only of victories, not defeats
and deny that all we posses will be lost...

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Categories: swift, death, history, life, philosophy,
Form: Carpe Diem
Swift
Ever flying, never ceasing, ever soaring, speed increasing,
Two sharp scythes by your side,
Leaving land behind

Journeying over land and sea,
Flying high, flying free,
Super speed, velocity,
Hawking prey...

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Categories: swift, bird, flying, nature, sky,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Swift Be Your Return -- Chris Green, Poetic Friend
A poet comes; a poet goes
  There are many of us now
    You know  

Yet at times one leaves
 ...

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Categories: swift, how i feel, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Swift
White rapids rushing for the falls,
Morgan horses loosed from their stalls,
From fragrant sunsets to nightfalls,
Songbirds answering southern calls.

Precious moments of golden hours,
Butterflies midst cherry flowers,
Rainbow's...

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Categories: swift, bird, color, flower, nature,
Form: Lay
The Swift
Swift, fleet, written be
This poem flies here from me
Just before I leave....

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Categories: swift, allegory, how i feel,
Form: Haiku
Ode To Taylor Swift and the Car Park Incident
Ode to Taylor Swift and the Car Park Incident

Today I saw the most ridiculous thing 
Taylor Swift existing backwards from a car park 
So she...

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Categories: swift, celebrity, humor, satire,
Form: Ode
Premium Member So Swift the Days Will Pass
Up on the hill I found my joy
on grass of green and gold
I would roll down when a young boy
for I was fast and bold.

Oh...

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Categories: swift, adventure, childhood, freedom, time,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift's
priorities could sell for a dime,
for his greatest wish
was to be big and small, all at the same time.



NOTE: Jonathan Swift was the author...

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Categories: swift, humorous,
Form: Clerihew
The Swift Arno Rushes Strong.
The River Arno.
Trees at the edges.
The Ponte Vecchio-Old Bridge....

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Categories: swift, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Swift Jaguar
Spots,
swift feet.
a jaguar runs;
silent hunter,
leaps.
...

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Categories: swift, animal, cat, poems, poetry,
Form: Lanterne
Premium Member Taylor Swift She Is Not
Rants do not make great songs
Rosanne Barr I am sorry to say
not so great in a thong
when you sell no tickets
you have no show

Unless you...

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Categories: swift, analogy, funny, integrity, mental
Form: Cinquain

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