Best Sweeping Poems
Below are the all-time best Sweeping poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sweeping poems written by PoetrySoup members
GrandpaThe old man sat with eyes closed, dozing in his chair
Until a little voice he heard say “Grandpa, are you there”.
He gazed upon a little...
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Categories:
sweeping, childhood, loss, sadold, child,
Form:
Couplet
On the Other Side of Cobblestone Streetsto my kindred soul
...i know you are out there
somewhere on the other side
across cobblestone streets
that scorn my feet, like hearts
on the pathways and wrong turns
of...
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Categories:
sweeping, destiny, dream, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Interview with the Wind“Air becomes wind when it’s agitated.” Lucretius
“Thank you for joining me in the studio today,” Mr. Zephyr.
“Glad to be here, Bob. Thank you for...
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Categories:
sweeping, wind,
Form:
Personification
Amidst the Darkened Veils'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment
the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...
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Categories:
sweeping, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Recording/Re-Playing/Recording/Re-PlayingThe farm
and the porch light hums
the sound of another
orange dawn.
Burnt up – crisp
...
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Categories:
sweeping, life, people, philosophy, time,
Form:
Free verse
The TurningThe year has finally yawned and turned
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging
Enforcement of the...
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Categories:
sweeping, celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...
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Categories:
sweeping, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Travel Light - a Goodnight LullabyTravel light, my dear; softly go
beyond the night’s each black shadow
to another plane. Out of sight
exists a realm of such delight
you may find relief from...
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Categories:
sweeping, dream, Lullaby,
Form:
Rondeau
To the Singing LarkOh! How like you, I long to be a singing lark
Who in the blue firmament like a tiny speck
Remains invisible, drowning the air in music...
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Categories:
sweeping, appreciation, bird, music, song,
Form:
Rhyme
We'Ll Always Have San Andreas-rearranging the stars-
How could we agree to separation?
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've...
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Categories:
sweeping, depression, relationship, sad love,
Form:
Alliteration
Here, Again: the Autumn EquinoxWritten for the Avebury Gorsedd, 24th September 2016
I wish you well...
I’m here, again…
Come riding in, upon the western wave
My hair all wove with...
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Categories:
sweeping, autumn, england, myth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Bard of GortSpringing free from glistening
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above
A distant lark now hangs in
Flight.
Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...
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Categories:
sweeping, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Memories In the SandIf ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...
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Categories:
sweeping, memory, missing you, passion,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
sweeping, age, autumn, life, nature,
Form:
Free verse
Wicked Web of Woes, Collaboration with Ink Empress“Wicked Web of Woes”
Is there a reason
to rhyme when
lifeless fingers
breathe toxic agony,
whilst disgraced
quill suffocates
from wildering
riddles swerving to
the stillness
of calcified air?...
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Categories:
sweeping, life,
Form:
Free verse