Best Flurries Poems
Jack Frost got me hustling
To clear my car of excess snow
Bare brown branches bustling
As frigid blue breeze blows
The forecast was right or wrong
As I sit in the car heating it up
On the radio red Christmas songs
Sing along makes freezing fun enough
I watch a parent play with child
Shaking tree to sprinkle white flurries
Warm eyes that twinkle as they smile
Despite chill no one really hurries
When it snows in the south
People take notice in awe gaze
Kids squeal with joy so loud
As they gather it in hands amazed
Purple panic shoppers raspberry react
Buying bread milk eggs in excess
We giggle at their inability to relax
And see snow days as God blessed
Despite the nights spent so cold
Someone who lacks winter heat
May be a poor homeless soul
Or you due to a car wreck on street
Snow in the south is a white dream
Everything seems to take it easy
Coffee tea and cocoa hot we drink
With warm hearts despite freezing
Categories:
flurries, america, appreciation, art, blue,
Form:
Rhyme
silence falls, flurries
damp whispers, sighs descending ~
breath embracing grace
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Categories:
flurries, silence, snow, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Diagonal snow
Glides effortless through
the countryside of the
Amputee windshield
For the passenger side
Has always had a reticent view
Steam rises loftily
From a topless treat
Of gas station coffee
That which further
Obfuscates the scene
Mousey and silent
Each flake falls
Like the wings of
An owl unhurried
Speckling the air
With flurries of tiny
Feathers
If snow is a blanket, is the
Earth a frightened child?
Is there a force, a specter
So haunting it summons
A crystal storm that beguiles,
Sure, a burden to some
But a spectacle for all.
High beams undress
The night, slipping away
Its silken onyx sundress
In its unblinking gaze I
Recall conversations with
Someone I no longer see
Hoping for fireplace romance
Surrounded in snow globe scenery
I try not to live
in the squall of regret
Even if every drop
Falls so softly, I must
Simply keep my foot
On the petal, and listen
To the engine’s counsel
Its kind whispering pistons.
Categories:
flurries, loneliness, memory, night, silence,
Form:
Free verse
words form in a flurry
bleeding saccharine too too much
all the crushed kaleidoscope colours
signature pastels and sparkling vibrants,
a tenderfoot cherry, with little of life yet to go by,
still art, that one is full to the brim with stitched up wisdom,
bleeds like watercolours across canvas melting messy hearts like chocolate,
la Ingénue’s cup overfloweth with abortions of sugary poésies
plumbed ripe and read, dripping black currents
legs wrapped around broomsticks of diamonds
Candide Diderot. ‘24
Categories:
flurries, allusion, color, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Flurries fondle trees
Trees pulse with felicity
Leaves frolic in sun
Categories:
flurries, nature, snow, winter,
Form:
Haiku
Where frosty flurries flourish
Sailing silver clouds stop,
Driving drips do nourish
Where would-be rains drop
Above a timbered tundra land
Laden lumber under showy snow,
Pretty piles of icy inches expand
Wild winter winds bellow below
A bathing beauty became the birch
And diamond bubbles graced her lap,
Sparkling clean, crested a new perch
Was on her head a shower cap
The pungent pine no longer evergreen
With cones of vanilla like ice cream,
Veiled in volumes of a scene serene
Frosty flurries flourish a January dream.
Categories:
flurries, january, nature, snow, storm,
Form:
Alliteration
As Sol slips off of the Earth's edge,
twilight slowly morphs into night.
And Autumn colors disappear
as dusk dims all remaining light.
Wildlife shivers in frigid winds,
contemplating the coming snow.
And dusk smears the horizon red
as crimson rivers ebb and flow.
Hoar-frost clouds, like paper towels,
expunge all traces of blue skies.
And darkness darkens the heavens
till the stars twinkle like fireflies.
Squirrels gather up acorns to
stash in final preparation.
And flurries of flakes hail Winter
in joyous anticipation.
Fall's horn of Cornucopia
gives way to empty fields of muck.
And Autumn’s beauty slips away,
much like the last migrating duck.
(Quatrain)
9/15/2015
Categories:
flurries, autumn, beautiful, earth, imagery,
Form:
Quatrain
A dull day began
With the snow flurries falling
It spread to the ground
Covering slowly the ground
All over the ground snow spread
Categories:
flurries, dark, day, snow,
Form:
Tanka
Gently cascading from the sky,
Snow flurries build up.
A lawn no longer green,
Blanketed with fluffy white tuff.
A dreary evening it seemed,
For it rained all day;
As cold and wintery breezes
Chill one to the bone.
Hooray for the warmth of a
fireplace,
To relax and stretch out before!
Read a book or go to bed?
But wait, take a look outside
‘fore you go, behold -
A White Blanket Of Snow!
Categories:
flurries, december, fantasy, imagery, literature,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The middle of May
and flurries! What's this I see?
Dandelion globes:
fine, feathery parachutes
distributed by the wind.
Categories:
flurries, nature
Form:
Tanka
This world seems silent outside,
noises in the streets don't collide,
when the flurries show their presence,
many voices are lost in this silence.
the nature, yet shows its best and bountiful
that teaches us a lesson of being beautiful.
Categories:
flurries, environment,
Form:
Rhyme
The day is dawning with a prediction of flurries
Nay nay I say, it's too early, I'm getting damn worried
The leaves haven't fallen
Not time for a slalom
It'll be here soon enough, it don't need to get hurried
Categories:
flurries, winter,
Form:
Limerick
flurries of snowflakes
seem to be lighter than air
defy gravity
flurries of snowflakes
living to float on the air
defy gravity
flurries of snowflakes
yearning to reach for the sky
defy gravity
Categories:
flurries, snow, wind, winter,
Form:
Haiku
This January
————————
Too cold now to snow —
Clouds flee with their flurries —
The birds crouch fluffed up
Categories:
flurries, beautiful, bird, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
The middle of May
and flurries! What's this I see?
Dandelion globes:
fine, feathery parachutes
distributed by the wind.
Categories:
flurries, nature
Form:
Tanka