Best Clement Poems
Thwarted...clement moons lose glow...
sun rises dries dewy tears
heart of mist broken
© Harry J Horsman 2023......
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Categories:
clement, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Moon Dance...Once upon a time so brightly
I had this compulsion to dance
Just holding you oh so tightly;
In thoughts of romantic perchance
Realistic dreams of nuance.
Your silver beam of love the lure
Bathe......
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Categories:
clement, love,
Form:
Dizain
That's Poetry...When tongue is silent, but muse is chanting - that's poetry.
When we write what the heart has been asking - that's poetry.
As dawn's hues glisten golden rays, in blue, bronze, orange skies,
......
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Categories:
clement, poetry, poets,
Form:
Ghazal
Sunshine Is My Pot of Gold...Clement weather is often just my dream.
I don’t mind wispy white clouds way up high,
or marshmallow ones topped with whipping cream.
Alas, brooding nimbus are drawing nigh,
I yearn fo......
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Categories:
clement, weather,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)
Cat...Charming cheerful chemist chummy classic clement capacious
Aesthetic affable agile alchemist alert ambitious ascetic
Terrific teacher thankful thoughtful tranquil trusty telepathic
* I l......
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Categories:
clement, cat,
Form:
Acrostic
Season of Splendor...Spring arrived, softer than the paling dawn
Wildflowers flourished across verdant hills
Bees were swarming, lush grass covered my lawn
in the season of splendor, as God wills
Glints of gol......
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Categories:
clement, spring,
Form:
Sonnet
Evening Song...meadow obeys the fragrant breeze
caressing the waves encircling love
sweet scent of the passion
while a clement moon rises.
© Harry J Horsman 2014......
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Categories:
clement, love,
Form:
Verse
Power Cut...Under clement moon
sits a night owl with pen...
her prey poetry.
© Harry J Horsman 2012
Dedicated to Andrea Dietrich......
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Categories:
clement, friendship,
Form:
Senryu
Pursuit...A clement breeze brushing over skin,
A salty scent breathed deep.
Eyes closed, waves heard below,
A muffled crashing,
A cool, gentle spray.
Eyes open, ebony ocean,
Stippled with touches of moon......
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Categories:
clement, hope, imagination, life, loss,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
I Am...chaos, am i ... all that is not understood
poison, am i ... once on your lips, the taste of ruin
callow, am i ... a child's heart that beats erotic
obsessed, am i ... as the black coal s......
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Categories:
clement, introspection,
Form:
List
Enchanted By This Lovely Clement Day...Enchanted by this lovely clement day
while writing poems like Calliope -
I wish in springtime I could ever stay.
To see the sun come up above the bay
as shadows of the pre-dawn quic......
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Categories:
clement, spring,
Form:
Villanelle
Stroke-A-Back...“Stroke-a-back
stroke-a-back
someone’s going to touch you
in a moment from now,
I’ll draw the snake
but I won’t end it.”
The old gas ligh......
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Categories:
clement, remember,
Form:
Rhyme
Bah, Humbug...Ah, the glorious damned winter
and the inviting
gray chill in the air.
I meander
ever
so
slowly
past lawns
strewn
with a cluttered array
of pagan snow zombies -
staring blankly,
as ......
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Categories:
clement, introspectionchristmas, snow, christmas, snow,
Form:
Free verse
Twas the Night Before Christmas In the Dispatch Center...A very touching version of Clement Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. A warm tribute to all dispatchers & police officers everywhere.
T’was the night before Christmas, and all throug......
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Categories:
clement, christmas, family, fun, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Dawn...clement moon...loses glow...sun rises
rose greets dawn...reassures...tears dewy
heart of mist...broken by...dawn chorus
rising sun...in shadows...dry stone wall
© Harry J Horsman 2013......
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Categories:
clement, nature,
Form:
Haiku