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Best Whiffs Poems


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 ink 
The only sign of life are whiffs of breath

I stand transfixed beneath the sky, 
to rest my mind with...

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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 old pair of getaway feet gives 
a different walk of life 
to an old pair of thrown-away shoes
two sizes too...

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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, as if tenor of music,
Swaying blades of grass shimmying moods of winds,
Sounding lyrics esoteric echoing voice of spring;

Humming softly to...

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Categories: whiffs, bird, joy, spring,
Form: Free verse

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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 
zest of zephyr, 
to tailor-stitch a tapestry;
       buttoned with zeal, 
   ...

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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 presence in ambiance of golden dawn.

Nary a cloud foreshadows my blue sky of tomorrow
As primrose emotions evoke blossoms of meadows;
In...

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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 blooms impart
As silken petals unfold, lip-synching your heart.

Upon arched trellis dazzles honey-gold royal rose
Forming vibrant arc of winsome welcome-pose,
Charming realm...

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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, heightening my grief, poking fun 
Defyingly I step out in glinting rays of the dawning golden sun.

Refusing to surrender when...

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Categories: whiffs, angst, endurance, feelings,
Form: Couplet
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 planned momentous moment, ordering fate, shaping survival

  surf wave crests on a rising tide of change
  present of...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whiffs, children, family, love, tribute,
Form: Verse
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 relentlessly chase me down
My infatuations.. still, I can't hide
A fierce hurricane, you surround
Until this dreamer takes a ride...
Come on, let's...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whiffs, longing, love, passion, poems,
Form: Lyric
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 around a frozen trunk with boughs gleaming
like crystal tassels. Nippy a fir which quavers through
whiffs of glacial air : the...

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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 mind away…
and in twilight’s dimming,
a music box of rain songs
frolics in slow, slow motion
through whiffs of a lengthened day,
discarding hours...

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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 or so
mingling with a hint of moulder on the breeze.

The apple peelings still lay on newspapers 
on the counter, deep...

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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 of gold
were clipped by silver shears 
of an ascending pearlescent moon
         ...

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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 of pink hyacinth muse your smile
Awakening you from rosy dreams gleaming in your eyes;
Oh, the splendor of spring floats on...

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Categories: whiffs, garden, imagery, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Pile of Wood Chips
From life to vivaciousness
wood chips will nourish with nutrients' fix.
Ah... whiffs of fresh pine sift as temperature rises,
steam swirling from this pile higher than I.
Should I climb upon it and slide down,
I could drown in the sweet smelling heat.
Woodland bits would grip garments like embellishments,
pokes...

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Categories: whiffs, childhood, environment, happy, life,
Form: Free verse

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