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Storm Poems | Examples of Storm Poetry

Storm Poems - Examples of all types of storm poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for storm.
Premium Member Just Clouds
Just Clouds They seem just ordinary fill for a background, a fuzzy white or gray that doesn't grab the eye and distract from the more deserving stuff like trees, sweeping ocean views and mountain lakes. Clouds lack a clean line. They seldom get...Read the rest...
Categories: sky, storm, sunset,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The melancholy Of This Mysty Rain
I hang on the small umbrella, but I fail; a whirlwind snatches it away, it's more violent than a hungry eagle swooping down to catch its prey... all is in shambles, it scares the beagle that finds shelter in a...Read the rest...
Categories: storm, death, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Melancholy Of This Misty Rain
I hang on the small umbrella, but I fail; a whirlwind snatches it away, it's more violent than a hungry eagle swooping down to catch its prey... all is in shambles, it scares the beagle that finds shelter in a...Read the rest...
Categories: storm, death, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sea Shanty
2. "over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge Wailing wind amid strongest ocean storm Night falls swiftly on tumultuous scene Sailors aware for they have been well-warned This is their...Read the rest...
Categories: ocean, sea, storm,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Underneath Starry Nights
"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, the breakers roar ... Samual Taylor Coleridge My love, we'll meet at eight as we agreed, A storm was near, the lighthouse sent its flash. Would be our...Read the rest...
Categories: love, night, storm, wind,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Storms Will Pass
"over the waters blue the night winds sigh, The breakers roar... " Samual Taylor Coleridge "Over the waters blue the night winds sigh The breakers roar..." Waves collapse before my eyes. I catch my...Read the rest...
Categories: metaphor, sea, storm,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member I See in Violet
May's tempest doth rumble, I think she took my bait, her violet respire, reciprocates my elate, while the raindrops weave, in hallucinations, that speak to my fate. ...Read the rest...
Categories: storm, deep, fate, magic, nature,
Form: Lyric
Winded
I’m sitting on my lawn chair Outside the night is cool I hear the trees swaying The breeze chills my skin It knocks on my hippocampus Am I here or where it blows? Breeze, you are timeless From queens to...Read the rest...
Categories: storm, childhood, night, nostalgia, star,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member trees breeze - please
sat one night back in the fifties... on a window sill and watched... hurricane hazel snap a large tree... across the road in the morning... we walked about a hundred yards... on the sidewalk torn by uprooted... trees and washed out by heavy rains... an unforgot-ton of 3d memory ease... stan...Read the rest...
Categories: addiction, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tornado
A lovely day, the eighth of May, with sunshine and light breeze You could not tell, that all’s not well and we felt safe at ease A little blip, a video clip, showed damage way out west But...Read the rest...
Categories: storm, anxiety, appreciation, endurance, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Storm Swept Through
I often write about the ocean. I went to see a museum exhibit, yesterday, “Dutch Art in a Global Age.” The paintings of sailboats on the sea caught my attention. Breathtaking and romantic, admired them...Read the rest...
Categories: art, sea, storm,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Field Day
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ thunder rumbles as leaves become water slides for the baby droplets ...Read the rest...
Categories: rain, storm,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member The Burden of Being
All day the wind has tormented the trees, causing branches to whip and bend. There is an anger let loose, loud in its haste to rip and destroy what is vulnerable. Spider webs woven last night are torn, flowers are plucked of petals...Read the rest...
Categories: humanity, life, self, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Thunder Advance
Black and white rainbow with tornado eyes spinning spotting hard on a lightning bolt; Such electricity in a slow dance; Rhythm picks up with the darkening skies lingering on finger tip’s gentle jolt; Detonation of pomp and circumstance...Read the rest...
Categories: storm, emotions, feelings, lust, nature,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Premium Member Symphonies Of Destruction
The wind blows, wails and cries Her strength, her rage, on an upward rise The sky that was clear now is black Her vengeance, her fury unfolds to attack. Lands tremble, crack and bends Destroying all what now offends Spirals of...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, storm,
Form: Rhyme

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