Get Your Premium Membership

Best Whirlpools Poems

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


Little Fire
I witness you fading away,
The winds blow frantically
They are against us, as all are

Little fire, rise in my cupped hands
Be it my life I shield...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, courage, death, fire, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Butterflies
They flutter and hover
And float on the breeze.
They shiver and shimmer
And weaken the knees.
Fickle and fragile,
They tickle and tease.
Fleeting and flimsy,
Deceptively free.  

These frivolous...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stars of Clarity
Written: November 19, 2023, For Ink Empress Contest

The garden of the world has no limits except in your mind. Its presence is more beautiful than...

Read more of this work...
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: whirlpools, analogy, appreciation, beauty, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Ocean of Sorrow
Since you left I seem to drift
Sorrow's current, very swift
Pulling me beyond yesterday's
Searing pain of velvet stingrays.

In this vast deceiving ocean
I drown in waves of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, introspection, loss, sadocean,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Coral Garden
Under 
                       ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, beauty, fish, health, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Faces of Loneliness-Win
Loitering lonely in a crowd in London
Separate, apart, different from the rest
Because of change of culture and taste
Can’t relate or fit in their world within.

In...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chartered Dreams
The raft of life with chartered dreams,
                  ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, angst, hope, life, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Words of Love
Words of love have many spills, harboring heartbreaks in their chills,
Birds of song upon yonder hills, singing sorrows amongst the daffodils…

We get lost within adoration,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, betrayal, conflict, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Fire From Far
You're in love-plight and sing for me each night,
As though abandoned by the savage world;
On the kingsize bed, here, we spouses fight,
In whirlpools of nightmares,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Lonely
My Mother, like many saints, is compassionate,
Though lion-like, my father is considerate;
Like banyan tree, my family is well-branched out,
Grandmas, Grandpa, Uncles, Aunts - all are...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, life, lonely, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Sometimes Love Is Not Enough
They say love conquers all, I can attest that is not true
For my heart lies broken, terribly battered and blue
I loved him with all my...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Mighty Kern (The End of Many Dreams)
You’re not real deep as rivers go
You’re really not that wide
When it comes to my feelings of you
They’re feelings I just can’t hide

Through giant boulders...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, death, family, life, loss,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Haiku 96
Haiku 96
	
	
	woodland stream
	whirlpools tying water 
	into smoke rings...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, nature,
Form: Haiku
Water's Life, and Seems Alive
Waves on the rocks 
a'crashing
In it human feet go 
splashing
And elsewhere in the 
swollen river
'gator tails go thrashing
Water may be stagnant 
or it may be...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, water,
Form: Rhyme
In Praise of My Beloved
(THIS POEM IS FOR THE CONTEST - BEAUTY)

Oh my beloved!
Golden gulmohars bloom in abundance
where your dainty feet dance in delight.
The whiff of our love drifts...

Read more of this work...
Categories: whirlpools, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things