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Best Tornado Poems

Below are the all-time best Tornado poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of tornado poems written by PoetrySoup members


F-5 Tornado
The warm temperature drops outdoors,
    And first drops of fresh rain sprinkle.
      The thunder claps right above...

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Categories: tornado, natural disastersrain, flying, rain,
Form: Concrete



Premium Member Tornado
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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Categories: tornado, storm, wind,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornado, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Regret
Why I did it, I don’t know
Tornado of regret tortures my heart

On a moonless night, he approached 
Limping toward me as I pumped gas
Why was...

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Categories: tornado, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Today's Weather Forecast: Severe Wind Warning
Due to growing Nimbus clouds of oppression
an area of low pressure has been building
Rest assured, it won't lead to bouts of depression
but rumblings of thunder...

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Categories: tornado, humorous, wind,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Wind
When it left the Arctic it was as a wild angry wind
that stormed its way across the ice bound Arctic ocean.
Blowing the snow clad icebergs...

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Categories: tornado, nature, wind,
Form: Personification
Premium Member I Think of You - a Horrendous Night - 0
I Think Of You - A Horrendous Night (Part 0)

Two a.m....
I open my window 

...a crack,

the dark is blinding.

It is a severe cold outside 
a...

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Categories: tornado, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 8 Little Egypts
Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in...

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Categories: tornado, easter, humanity, words,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member One More Rosey Trip
I'm off on the beaten path
with Little Rosey in my grasp

There's palm fronds like a giant clock,
twenty hands instead of two
And there's the honeysuckle bush
that...

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Categories: tornado, child, childhood, cute love,
Form: Narrative
The Dream
From the mouth of the ocean and the eye of the wave
You erupt in my being and leap from my grave;
A lover so gloomy, yet...

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Categories: tornado, love, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loosening the Air Bag
Slipping into my silver-gray SUV
Nicknamed  " Sly Buster Cruiser”
I speed off down the rocky, off-highway road.
Twisting and reeling like my wired mind,
windows down, sunroof...

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Categories: tornado, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And Then I Opened That Door- For Comp
(For Competition 'And then I opened THAT door', sponsor- John Lawless)


My relationship had broken down, when love ran out of gas
so down life's dark and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tornado, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Man From Duluth
There once was a man from Duluth
whose habit was spinning the truth.
He had told the same tale
(every day without fail;
'twas getting quite long in the...

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Categories: tornado, drink, humor, word play,
Form: Limerick
The Concealed Anguish
Take my letter to her, O Messenger!
Yes, totally washed are its words and phrases 
A deed of my flooding eyes I couldn’t deter
The tornado of...

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Categories: tornado, allegory, devotion, lost loveheart,
Form: Rhyme
A Sword of the Heavens Did Glean
A sword of the heavens did glean

From railings and arbors 
of dead thorn and bramble,
where ghostly reminders remain

Fall droplets of blood ‘pon
a crimson embroider
 left...

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Categories: tornado, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs