Best Cliffs Poems
A Real Cliffhanger
It was tranquil sultry August, and the birds were singing,
The insects were all buzzing, and toad frogs were springing.
And I was deep in the mountains, taking snapshots of nature;
For I felt I was a good photographer, though only an amateur.
A few of my best photographs, were winners of local contests,
Which encouraged and inspired me, to...
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Categories:
cliffs, adventure, bird, devotion, fantasy,
Form:
Couplet
The White Cliffs of Dover
Vera Lynn's, "There'll Be Bluebirds Over, The White Cliffs Of Dover",
Keeps streaming through my brain like a wafting zephyr over and over!
'Tis a poignant reminder of sad and cheerless days during World War Two,
Yet, the Cliffs themselves were a beacon of hope when things were looking blue.
What a beautiful sight for weary bomber crews returning...
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Categories:
cliffs, wargod, world, day, god,
Form:
Rhyme
The White Cliffs
Toes curled around the white sharp edge
Head peering over the steep slope
Down down down falls the cliff
Yet up up up soars my hope
The rippling wind, the crashing waves
White foam against white cliffs- so grand
Furthermore a white sky dropping white snow
A white dress, and a white rose in hand...
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Categories:
cliffs, life, nature, peace,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetics Poem, Red River Gorge, Ky
Poetics Poem, Red River Gorge, KY
I traipse the course of a forking, rambling stream
Barefoot from the rounded top of one small boulder
To another, the slashing strikes of cold water
Startling my every careful leap, place to place,
Landing with deep, short gasps, yet wordless
In an utter joy of intense sensation over sun-sprinkled
Spots so bright against the...
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Categories:
cliffs, christian, metaphor, nature, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Cliffs of Moher
Straight faced craggy cliffs
God's presence evident here
Breathtaking splendor....
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Categories:
cliffs, beauty
Form:
Haiku
Concrete Cliffs
No form, no organization, no verse.
A crescendo followed by silence and screams.
A wooden home locked inside of a concrete tome,
With a world collapsing while we keep relapsing
And again the past resurges; what we bury tends not to stay that way,
After all, the piper must have his pay.
A dark closet and we’ve seen fit to rot...
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Categories:
cliffs, fear, introspection, people, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Cliffs of Dover
Cliffs of Dover
© Ben Burton
Leah, lovely Leah, looking good and well tonight
As you walk the Cliffs of Dover with a faint, but regal, smile
And paint your wistful dreams on the facing's chalky white
The Cliffs of Dover plan to keep you for a while
On seven years since nature's wrath came blowing
To channel spirits in salt water...
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Categories:
cliffs, allegory,
Form:
Ballad
The Snowy Cliffs With Bouffant Boulders
Even before the arrival of the first snows, so brilliantly candid,
we climbed mounts less dangerous than the Alps's;
and we proudly chalked it up to our experience.
Now the snowy cliffs with bouffant boulders,
have lost their captious and so beatific image,
and quite too often we got pinched by burdock,
distracted by the robins chattering on a coarse...
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Categories:
cliffs, adventure, dedication, devotion, family,
Form:
Ottava rima
Categories:
cliffs, fantasy, life, nature, on
Form:
Tanka
Cliffs of Dover Horn Haiku
Cliffs of Dover Horn Haiku
This is kind of about North Korea.
Play death on demand
Thing is getting out of hand
And was poorly planned.
His name was Say Who
Accepted their point of view
Was killed that is true.
So who may be next?
Causing us to be perplexed
Sent message of text.
North has no clover
So should do a flyover
But Cliffs of Dover?
James...
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Categories:
cliffs, allegory, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Haiku
Grey Haired Old Man
There once came a grey haired old man.
Or am I mistaken was it rather a ma'am?
Nevertheless he big brought gifts
And climbed big cliffs
To deliver them to his little fans....
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Categories:
cliffs, christmas, funny, humor,
Form:
Limerick
The Cliffs and the Gorge
The Cliffs and The Gorge.
Chance upon chance-- lover to lover,
The truest love discarded—lost romance,
Never either again found another
Two seek the self-same love forever asunder
The hollow hearts hath much pain,
Never again, never again, to replace the crossed-star love flame
And in the weening half-full hearts replaced,
A great black chasm carved worn from the scars...
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Categories:
cliffs, destiny, lost, love,
Form:
Villanelle
Lithium - El
Lithium keeps me current
On river raft sans torrent
Dreaming by cloud tufted sky
Scoring rustic lullaby
Hands caressing cool water
Passing coarse cliffs which totter
Lithium keeps me current...
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Categories:
cliffs, earth, sky, water,
Form:
Haiku
By the Chalk-White Cliffs
By the chalk-white cliffs of Dover
Where the English country ends
There we watch the ferries going over
Some in some out, the usual wend
In our youthful common blithe
There we sat on cliff-grass wasting
Wasting time and never hasting
On the meadows reaped by scythe
So meet us here one day my friend
When your meadows also end
With a scythe to...
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Categories:
cliffs, allegory, deathday,
Form:
Imbibing the Cliffs Enthrall
Heart
Pulse throbbing, breathlessly imbibing the cliff’s enthrall. The crashing of momentous waves against the bolder rocks. The passionate heaving of whisking foam and the swollen coolness of seaside air.
Mind
Blown, for I am not a fisherman, nor reside near the cliffs. What is a haven and harbor to many is a far-fetched tale to me, but...
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Categories:
cliffs, emotions, sea,
Form:
Prose Poetry