Best Tempestuous Poems

Rest yourself here where water lies calm
    still, you could fly
              to perch on tempestuous cloudy bank
    perhaps to remain
              safety a foreign...

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Time and tide again waits for no man
tempest-tossed upon life’s billow
The hull or the dinghy
Serves as a fortress
Though steady on its keel
Knocked his wits and sense
As he vacillates between levity and despair
Caused by his unbridled folly
He rakes the moon from out of the sea
A gust of air blew
It tethered him to flee
All you see is...

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Walls explode, windows crash
Lightning in the middle, ceremoniously mash
the safety of my core, the distressed world of my being
that has given me a reality, gazing into the sky, seeing
the truth written in heavenly bodies and locked in a celestial
dance.

Wandering through the maze of triumph and defeat
Playing tug-of-war with every soul I meet
Straddling between two worlds,...

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Seething skies like bloodshot eyes,
wailing gales assailing through canyon ~ 
weeping fits, ember storm cries
bristling tears with random abandon.

East to west, unwanted guests,
downsloping dire breeds with fire
fueling fest of fiery crests
aborning hells of unholy spire.

Santa Ana merciless winds breathing
capricious firebrands kindle tinder teething.


Susan Ashley
December 26, 2017


~ Tenth Place ~
10 Lines, 5 Words: Rhyme - Premiere...

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There is a calm across the waters,
The sky tis sullen and laden,
As the heavens pail with discolour.
The sea bestills with anticipation,
Birds fleeing , seeking, haven.
A silence begins to fall, as the tempest, draws near.
Clouds begin to stir , as a shuffling rumble is heard .
A gentle zephyr lulls across the the sea,
Tis the beginning.
Slowly it...

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“You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.” By Rumi

A voyage from known to unknown…
From familiar to unfamiliar,
This universe, a mystifying puzzle,
How much we are able to decipher!

Childhood to adulthood…
Life's long journey,
Ebbs and flows of a movement
Towards meaning,...

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Captured in twinkling apricot diamonds dappling cosmoses

& ocean's tumultuous roar of foaming cerulean furor,

prolific winds that howl & soar atop empurpled elevations

mid streams that pierce meadows of extravagant greenness,

thunder that splits the skies, nourishing the promise of an

exalted burnt umber earth spinning in tempestuous regnant

surrendering wildflowers wherefrom mysteries shade the trees,

magenta and sapphire sunsets 'tween...

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"The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul."

       
                                 A beautiful path I travelled,
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Two tropical waves
Spoil outdoor activities
In the same weekend 














8-5-2016...

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Boiling blackness rolls over the hillside                                                 ...

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I sailed the tempestuous sea

The squally water threatening to drown me

As I follow the stars hoping they will guide me home

Shouting at the wind

'Don't assail me!' 'Lord please save me! '

As I sailed this tempestuous sea.

I rode the high waves

Plunged down in the dips

The rain lashed hard just as if we're a whip

The water lashed...

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A TEMPESTUOUS SPELL

Walking rapidly, yet pensively along the waters edge,
A shallow wave tickled my toes, and seductively
Crossed my path, caressing my feet, almost enticingly
Inviting, yet alerting me this was Africa’s sea, I should hedge
My bets, for ignoring it I would pay a high fee, yet, I took
A few more steps deeper into this captivating, frothing...

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.                     The air is so humid
                 As the storm rages outside
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A hurricane on a tear
Mother nature's furious rage
Tempestuous relationships
Just as disastrous


Date written and posted: 10/08/2018...

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In the silences of twilight, I merge with the colors of a tempestuous dream,
Spirits whistling through galaxies of shattered darkness,
I speak with the passion of falling stars, a symphony of souls,
In a cascade of golden whispers, in the heart of the crimson night.
I have been the guide of shadows, the medium for lost hearts,
Trying to...

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