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Best Whiffs Poems

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Premium Member Alabaster Night
Untroubled is the quiet night
How peaceful is a world that glimmers white
Frost and moonlight have whipped a silver glaze
And silhouettes of trees are black as...

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Categories: whiffs, nature, planet, sea,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: whiffs, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Voice of Spring
“and the birds twitter like whispering violins”
Quote by – Constance La France

Whiffs of fragrant breeze propagate tranquility
Kissing delicate roses, blushing amber beauty,
Rustling leaves of willows,...

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Categories: whiffs, bird, joy, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member swirling seven-stars
Life is never a planned ride
      on a magical carpet,
that awakens jasmine
dreams lost in the brisk air.
We weave our own...

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Categories: whiffs, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member These Arms Long To Hold You
Sensuous allures float in pulchritude of white swan
Upon your lotus pond, arousing visions of romance
As I see you there where pink blossoms dance
And kiss your...

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Categories: whiffs, love,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme



Premium Member Rose Garden
Rose blossoms divine~ splendor exuding delight,
Ebullient is their stance, colorful is their profile,
Ecstatically they rise, flaunting exuberant smile;
Grandeur flower-bouquets charming your sight
Lauding scented whiffs fragrant...

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Categories: whiffs, garden, imagery, rose,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Life Encounters Opaque Space
When gusty winds blow, riling my troubled dawn in gelid woes
Squall of my throes dissipates in scented whiffs of budding rose.

As brazen fog shrouds mind,...

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Categories: whiffs, angst, endurance, feelings,
Form: Couplet
The Writer's Secret
Long ago.. in my youthful days
You took me, and showed me how
I never got over that first daze
What you did to me, and even now

You...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whiffs, longing, love, passion, poems,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Love Off-Sprung
futures cavort below the horizon
  an expectant dawn glows, duly announcing the first born arrival
  tomorrow then forward smiles, feeling good
  half...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whiffs, children, family, love, tribute,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Evergreen
/I\
~a branch
snuggles  it tight,
messing ivory ringlets
while beneath the orchard,
grayish cones on  iced moonlight rips.
Winter now bears her dry  skin, as children 
romp...

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Categories: whiffs, image, tree,
Form: Shape
Premium Member With Fondness
My dear Beloved,

Night owl hoots at me again
beneath a ramp of clouds,
like cozy pillow to my moon 
pinching this letter with anticipation
to tuck my ruffled...

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Categories: whiffs, absence, love,
Form: Free verse
Autumn Pie
Apple pie, fresh from the oven
cools on a rack, whiffs of cinnamon-nutmeg
aroma rise through the pastry vent
then drifts out through
the kitchen window opened an inch...

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Categories: whiffs, autumn, food,
Form: Free verse
How Sweet the Bloom of Love
Enchanted was I with a cloying scent...
whiffs of wild magnolia
mingled with the woodsy tang
of her lemon verbena perfuming the air
Like Samson's strength, the sun's threads...

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Categories: whiffs, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Splendor of Nature
Glinting glimpse of amber delight, golden dawn arrives
Enchanted by the symphonious chorus of robins’ voice
As yellow daffodils swing, lilting winds in ruby sunrise
When scented whiffs...

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Categories: whiffs, garden, imagery, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Borders
ice coated fence posts

      punctuate the snowy trail…

          frosty whiffs of...

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Categories: whiffs, nature,
Form: Haiku

Book: Reflection on the Important Things