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Best West Wind Poems

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This Song Is For My Mother
This song is for my mother
Let her hear me cry
I couldn’t bring myself to write it
‘Til this darkened day arrived
A song about old promises 
Made...

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Categories: west wind, angst, death, dedication, depression,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley,  Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist,...

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Categories: west wind, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
The First of Many Smiles
Robins sing joyfully to the morning sun,

hidden behind the pale white summer flowers,

up in that old basswood tree out back

Splish splash splish 

 sounds of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: west wind, love,
Form: Free verse
Afraid To Be - Ode To Emily
The day goes -- 
     but I do not 
The west wind blows 
     and I am...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: west wind, allegory, irony, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Daydream
Up with sun

at the crack of the dawn

Bluebirds are playing

and singing sweet songs

Two deer are feeding

on the edge of the field

The west wind is blowing

all...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: west wind, dream, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Invention of Zero
Zero.
By which nothing is divided.
No zero
no negative
no opposite
no hope
no Adam, no apple, no marriage, no morning.
No mirror
no knowledge
no God, no soul, no ear lobe, no...

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Categories: west wind, father, future, home, hope,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Zephyr's Magic
Zephyr’s Magic

I feel the delight of Zephyr’s Magic,
As I walk in nighttime mist majestic.  

This West wind caresses my very soul,
As I walk earful...

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Categories: west wind, allegory, dream, imagery, journey,
Form: Heroic Couplet
A Lunatic Lady
In the harvested field near the canal,
she roams with a mind slid from its rail.
Her muddy skirt and brownish hairs 
flutter in the salty wind...

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Categories: west wind, sad,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Me and My Bike
Beneath a perpetual sky
Longing to perceive nature’s sigh,
In lanes of sparkling morning dew
Before ‘Draughton village’ we view.

Thunder lightning hoarfrost and hail
Sunbaked days when coasting the...

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Categories: west wind, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Call Me Home
You are the river running through 
unfathomable greens
glassy yellows 
down in the core of the river
flicker lightness on top
You increase me…swell me…impregnate without word or...

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Categories: west wind, first love, life, love,
Form: Free verse
The Trail of the Dying Sun
The trail of the dying sun
told me of your tears
and the west wind
brought me your name

The river spoke
of all our fears
the ocean
felt the same

The earth...

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Categories: west wind, death, life, nature, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Sound of the Stream
Stream
at night
sings softly
age old music
to quiet the cry
of  this day's little child
lost while the west wind  moans   
Restoring  calm from...

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Categories: west wind, hope, life
Form: Etheree
Comfort and Content
Day after day the waning of spring,
Burst into summer with blossoming;
The lark is singing wild with glee,
High on a branch of a hawthorn tree;
And daisies...

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Categories: west wind, life, heart, night, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Wheat Field With Cypresses
effervescent swirling clouds
in turquoise summer skies
float like flocks of fair sheeps
in far away exuberant fields

beneath are cyclopean cypresses
touching celestial bosom
in deep periwinkle and corn flower
whilst...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: west wind, appreciation, art, nature,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member All Yours
Speak to me gently, my love.
as gentle as the whisper
of the west wind
touching winter twigs. 

Embrace me tightly , my love 
like a misty cloud
embosoming the...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: west wind, devotion, true love,
Form: Free verse

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