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Swill Down Poems - Poems about Swill Down


White Lies
...that smile hides a hundred truths inside white lies lined up like tombstones cleaned nightly, scrubbing away the shame spoken and guilt grinded daily, stained with coffee and wine swallowed to s......

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Categories: swill down, analogy,
Form: Free verse
I Wish I Was the Wizard
...I wish I was a tin man Out there cutting wood; I'd rely upon the lube can To keep my elbows good. All day I'd task and toil Until it's time for tea, And then I'd take a squirt of oil To keep m......

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Categories: swill down, courage,
Form: Rhyme



Lollipop Series- What I Love
...Mommy deemed the three-year-old me as an honour Said that I should become a doctor Stethoscope and thermometer are in her gift bag To spark the zeal in me, she set to wave a green flag. Dadd......

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Categories: swill down, birthday, boy, child, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Kyoto Proto, So What
...(The Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty signed in December 1997, commits member states to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. The United States is the only First World nation not to rati......

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Categories: swill down, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Colcannon
...We broke bread at dawn Cold and shivering Faces dirty, hearts weary the kettle boiling over a dying fire tea meant to soothe our bones and joints aching a bubbling soup hits our nauseous bellies and......

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Categories: swill down, horse, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse




Book: Reflection on the Important Things