Approaches Poems | Examples

Winter Approaches

winter approaches
snowflakes tumble from the sky-
a sprinkle of white

As brisk breezes scatter leaves around,
Autumn colors confetti the ground.

Winter winds howl through barren branches
blowing off any remaining leaves.

Mother Nature is in transition;
stripping the scenery yet again.
The naked trees are in remission;
till Spring showers, water them with rain,
and green canopies, supplant the plain.

It is bruited abroad

There is rumour..Speculation? that old clause 
Has left this station..? And an earthly king is sickening
Is there poision.? Or just nothing? the world stage plays
Seem deserted?? Are their fortunes being introverted?
How about gatesy?  Heard of him lately.?? Is scoros on
The way out.?? I'll like to beleive.' I'td be one good shout!
Are they picking off the gallery? Of devils spawn? Could
That be.? Well some are over eighty.' Trudeau won't get
Back again to fifty.' We know death is
Not a maybe.! God (will call in every sinner) for in hell
They'll not be winners.!!

When night approaches

As the evening grew colder,
The skies became darker
As flashes of lightning and peals of thunder
Awoke the sleeping man.
As he stared around in wonder,
The once noisy world had returned to its silence.
As he gazed at the dark clouds,
They slowly paved way for the stars to fill the night sky,
The moon at it's finest shining brightly.
He took a final look at the night sky and thanked nature for it's view.

Winter Approaches

Gold
leaves
flutter
to the ground
Winter approaches ~
Maple tree branches are naked,
awaiting gloomy graphite clouds to clothe them with snow
They languish in stoic stasis, deciduous and disrobed until budding in spring

As Night Approaches

when the sun is swallowed by the ocean
how i long to see your face
and pray the moon will rise



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Submitted on July 6, 2022 for contest A BRIAN STRAND PREMIER CHOICE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND

Originally posted on July 3, 2022

Fear Approaches

Buzzing of a …..drone?
Are we being invaded?
Punishment deserved for not helping the Ukrainians more?
I hold my breath as I wait.
Fear approaches.

Another Groundhog Day Approaches

Is everybody ready for that lying little rodent
to crawl out of his hole and predict an early Spring.
It doesn't matter what that liar says.
He's not a meteorologist, he doesn't know a thing.

Groundhogs are the center of attention,
expected to predict the next six weeks.
You might as well just flip a coin
because " he doesn't know of what he speaks".

I think this year we should ignore them.
Find something else to keep us amused.
Pretend you don't care what they predict.
Let their little egos finally get bruised.

I'm tired of these groundhog's promises, 
be it Winter or Spring on which we rely.
Every year they make their predictions
and every year they damn well lie.

Autumn Approaches, Haiku

Running in the grass,
               The kitten ran with joyful sass,
               Birds flew south, en masse!


 
                          8/27/2021
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               * Rhymed Haiku

As Our Lord Approaches

12/25,  ***As Our Lord Approaches
          (Written to pray blessings for my poet friends)


Our O Holy Lord does’t mind what day it is.
See the children skip-dance beside him.  Their
Arms and smiles flying into the air in  a rising
Melody the Holy Spirit has composed for their

Approach to gathered crowds on this any day
That he comes to stand among us with outstretched
Arms.  Do look closer to see the young people in 
Revival singing up praises to heaven, with cheering.

Then, sight how the seniors, after lives long on
Trials sway silently, so filled with ecstasy and all
Thanksgivings, it is their tears that sing for their 
Exclaiming souls.  As words and voices, too, are lost.

Not Christmas or Ester alone surges with our souls,
But these any days rise in Alleluia’s!  Our Love, of God, 
Like the  mountains en masse: bows, melts, 
Moved to burst from our cores launched into Grace!

********.       **********.          **********.        *********
(C) sally Young Eslinger 12/25/20
All thanks to God!

Storm Approaches

Dark clouds gather
	high overhead
bright lightning flashes
	deep thunder roars

growing wind does
	blow about me here
catching up my clothes
	tugging at me

cold hard drops
	of rain hits me
bringing quick shills
	as I would flee

squall line approaches
	with drenching rain
and lightning that
	comes crashing down

I look for shelter
	where I can be
keeping me safely
	from raging storm

trees promise shelter
	and call there to me
beneath them lurks the danger
	does the lightning does bring

with fear I tremble
	and cast about my eyes
seeking for the shelter
	to save me from the storm

September Approaches

Fall
Embrace
With decay
Slowly replaced
Youth slipping away
Hanging in a dark mood
This painting misunderstood
Like the touch of a stranger's hand
Suddenly there's a change in the wind







8/24/19

A Storm Approaches

Approaching from the West
on so subtle a breeze,
a storm threatens the air.
Distant thunder resounds.
Might I grow fearful
as a darkening shade is draped
across clear skies I know so well?

One Success Approaches

M-oiling
A-scent
R-equires
I-mpressive
C-ourage
E-mploying
L-aborious

L-ife
O-nce
S-uccess
A-pproaches

Topic: Birthday of Maricel Losa (November 02) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

The Day Approaches

welcome to my western age
when gallows are in a rage
it's in the turning of the page
sought through the tears in your eyes

seek the flames of gratitude
sheltered far too in the mood
the thought of a miracle mile
a smile from a lonesome child

getting a bit wild

It Approaches

As the 
singularity 
draws near,
I look on with 
trepidation.
What lies
beyond
i do not know.
I think back
to my youth.
Days in the 
backyard 
hot summer days
watching the ants
scurry around,
hearing 
the birds 
signing in the trees.
Feeling the hot 
summer breeze
caressing my face.
Just memories
of a simpler
time.
All gone now.
As I'm wrapped in
technology.
Facing a
unknown future 
as the 
singularity 
envelopes.

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