Best Ominously Poems

Torrential rain, blinding wind howling, 
Dark heavy clouds ominously scowling,
Brilliant radiant light of electric flashes,
Following the lightning, defiant crashes,

Loudest blasts make brave men cower,
Thunder so...

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Last time it rained was in April.
                  ...

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On a walk after the worst of the Sandy storm
I slogged down the still dampening
Green grass valley rutted between
The moldering fences of the shadowed alley....

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I enjoyed an almost idyllic childhood. This was marred only at the age of ten by my circumcision, a cruel and primitive custom among my...

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Daffodils of gold wind their way through heaven's green pastures 
As angels whisper through the meadows of my mind 
Fragrance forgotten through the passing years...

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Chalk is the magic of blackboards, sports fields and
little girl's sidewalk games of Hop-Scotch.
How many equations and statements, measured lines, and boxes
do you imagine have...

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Snow draped folds like loose Cashmere curtains cover the evergreen boughs
pining for the lengthening days of each succeeding sunrise,
reticent to see the cold of night...

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*Image of Julius Caesar by QDT.

The Ides of March

Spun spells pummel our Earth ... as a Sun scanned absence swallow,
vacuumed blues taxes light once deemed...

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Looming ...

The possibility of crisis
          Life-as-you-now-know-it-ending crisis
         ...

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The ground rumbles, ominously, I'm on the steep side of a Mississippi River Bluff, mid-August, gathering bursting crimson red trophies of Staghorn Sumac for my...

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Summer beauty died when you forsook me.
Now autumn returns with all its wistful glory.
Leaves change their greenish hues	
into brown, russet, or golden themes,
a kaleidoscope of...

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Winter’s Journey  (Part 2)



The Mother Bear pounds her paws 
in agitation from left to right 
as the floating ice shelf melts through 
the many...

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Clinging to sunny Bognors regal
skirts
At his Majesties most royal verges
The readied hand thrusts upon the 
lever,
And, shuddering, She forward lurches.

Clanking ominously over diesel fueled
growls,
Expediency, they...

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Daffodils of gold wind their way through heaven's green pastures 
As angels whisper through the meadows of my mind 
Fragrance forgotten through the passing years...

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Three cousins played a “game’ of war
A map of Europe spread across the floor
No adults there to keep the score
As each of them wanted more...

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