Best Sills Poems
As Father Is To His Daughter...Passing through framed windows like ours,
I recall your tales of reckless war and lost friends
that burned your innocence at 21... and though
you claimed flashes of courage, moist eyes
po......
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Categories:
sills, father, introspection, words,
Form:
Free verse
A Miracle...Where the sound of the wind whistled through the cracks in the walls and the door-sills where pots collected rain beneath a leaky roof where some drops ping-ponged on the empty soup cans resting on ......
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Categories:
sills, childhood, life,
Form:
Haibun
If I Were a Flower...A blossom I’ll be on the wreaths for peace
An offering to deity to feed world’s hungry
I’ll be the garden on every troubled street
Preening as gleefully as exuberant tulips
Swaying with spring in......
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Categories:
sills, flower, friendship, love,
Form:
Personification
Quietude and Boom...I decorate a grotto for you, Mama
where orchids and holy images
embellish this special place and day,
that saintly icons guard you there
as if they beg me to be released
from years of gu......
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Categories:
sills, devotion, mother daughter, sound,
Form:
Free verse
Threshold of Madness...The cold hand of Winter swiftly approaches
Its breath etches frost on my windowpanes
Nearer my threshold, Death now encroaches
Blood is slowly chilling inside my frail veins
Reaper's wild win......
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Categories:
sills, death, fear,
Form:
Terzanelle
Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library...Toddlers' Exploration:
Cardboard drum and a thunderous beast
With playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide to dreams just out of reach
Soaring through tales of barny......
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Categories:
sills, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
-farewell My Beautiful Being-...to all who know and love,
and who may not know at all,
i have told tales of adoring loss
and romance utterly grand-
building walls with broken sills,
falling apart at the seams t......
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Categories:
sills, appreciation, goodbye, happiness, inspiration,
Form:
Verse
Spring Sonata...
Dream catchers chime in the wind,
like soft tones of a xylophone.
Melodic melancholic rain,
is free flowing,
but morning birds still arrive,
sitting on wet window sills,
singing about their d......
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Categories:
sills, metaphor, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Summer's Zephyr...Zephyrus, the god of the wind from the west
Gently blows where the lily grows
He is springtime's welcome guest
In early summer he whispers to the rose
As she sways in his warm caress
He g......
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Categories:
sills, mythology, nature, wind,
Form:
Terzanelle
I Recall Mockingbirds Singing To Me...I Recall Mockingbirds Singing To Me
My life now so far away in the past
resting back in that glowing red sunset;
in lost memories where dreams always last
wishing for lost time, I can never get......
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Categories:
sills, bird, blessing, creation, imagery,
Form:
Sonnet
The Sting of Nettled Showers...To the sound of pelting rain, she woke in early morning
Upon the tattered tin roof, it rhythmically pitter pattered
No sunlight peeked through clouds on daylight's dawning
She thought of him a......
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Categories:
sills, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Memorial Day...Most of us play, our lives like a game
Both ends of our candle, consumed by the flame
Choosing a curtain, buying a vowel
Planning tomorrow, forsaking the now
In days gone by, not so long ago
We ......
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Categories:
sills, america, appreciation, blessing, memorial
Form:
Rhyme
Small Gifts Quilted With Love...Somewhere in the Appalachian Hills quilted with love
there are cottages and curtains clothes on sills, quilted with love.
Up high in deep where electric wires don't reach where night is dark
and......
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Categories:
sills,
Form:
Ghazal
Newspaper...The paper lay flat
on a low reading table,
yet thick in it's pages,
a days worth of fable.
Our library bright with it's
rays to it's sills
and the paper bleached white
with a grey side of gills.
......
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Categories:
sills, on writing and words,
Form:
Couplet
Bougainvillea...A thousand dots of bulbs flutter wildly
exploding into my summer’s redness
to gather awed murmur upon these lips,
my amazement tossed beyond open sills—
How I watch you glitter from a dance
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Categories:
sills, dedication, flower,
Form:
Free verse