Best Whisk Poems
O April...O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered
from the grasping earthen frost -
the past season of fanged nor’easters ......
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Categories:
whisk, appreciation, april, beauty, hope,
Form:
Free verse
Venus Gifts a Yarrow's Kiss...O, weeping willow shed your sorrow
on whispering breeze to soothe your grief
within whose breath's a healing yarrow
to whisk away tears upon your leaf.
Sweet rustling zephyr embraced in sway
a......
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Categories:
whisk, emotions, heartbreak, hope, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Caress My Soul Sweet Poet...Love's tend'rest touch, your gentle words reveal
Caress my soul. sweet poet, with your verse
Write dulcet lullabies which make me feel
Secure, like infants held at breast to nurse
Turn tears of......
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Categories:
whisk, appreciation, love, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet
One Long Last Look...The moon shimmied up her pole in the sky
Winking at me with her crescent eye
The stars danced in time to a silent tune
As the season ended that started in June
O, one long last look at su......
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Categories:
whisk, autumn, longing, moon, night,
Form:
Couplet
Autumn - a Citrine Leaf...
A citrine leaf in lingered lilt
did savor breeze of sapphire whisk
as Autumn’s honey-secrets spilt.
A hopscotch star.. an ember brisk,
she sighed and fell— then took her chance!
a citrine le......
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Categories:
whisk, autumn, dance, death, flying,
Form:
Quatern
Dandelion Woman...Oh look here— behold a dandelion woman
the original wild flower!
I go where I want to go
I grow where I want to grow —
don't matter if y o u say no
dandelion wine summertime
relax and rec......
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Categories:
whisk, beauty, conflict, courage, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Dust From the Past...Looking back again, back into the past,
it was written in sand, all those questions we asked
on those last days of summer, something was wrong
as the leaves started turning, and shadows grew ......
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Categories:
whisk, age, memory, people, sad,
Form:
Rhyme
At the Gate of Dreamland...I know you are there
On the other side
Waiting anxiously for me
There at Dreamland’s Gate
So I close my eyes tight
To hurry myself to you
Hoping sleep comes quickly
To carry me to your arms
Which are......
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Categories:
whisk, desire, dream, passion,
Form:
Free verse
Covered Silence...Empath whispers hold covered silence
desires whisk away with the moon
earth tone times of trepidation
dragged off and hidden in the ruin
pain stains blush red under pretense
separate flights ......
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Categories:
whisk, character, confusion, depression,
Form:
Free verse
A Rose By Any Other Name ---...Through the hushed whisper of the breeze
Flowing through the majestic circling pine trees
I sense that I have stepped
Into a sacred hallowed space
A GARDEN OF ROSES
A......
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Categories:
whisk, beauty, humanity, love, peace,
Form:
Ode
To Isolde, a Gift - If Only You'll Be Mine...You asked me for a dance one night, ’twas late one New Year’s Eve,
and as I held you in my arms, your shape did wend and weave;
a sudden kiss as midnight struck (I thought it make believe) -
for s......
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Categories:
whisk, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Mystical Lore of the Twilight Hawk...Aloft, with keen eyes in sorbet skies’ raspberry half-light
visceral vibrations of vitality does await.
Soaring in a hush, with plumage plush, a silent stealth kite,
he glissades on ghostly winds ......
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Categories:
whisk, bird, conflict, death, destiny,
Form:
Rhyme
Cobalt Silhouettes...A teal twilight inks cobalt silhouettes
while distant stars unveil their twinkling lights.
And shadows slink forth, melding with the night,
as a setting Sun feigns a scarlet death.
Pink......
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Categories:
whisk, nature,
Form:
Blank verse
At the Gate of Dreamland- My First Contest Entry and Win...I know you are there
On the other side
Waiting anxiously for me
There at Dreamland’s Gate
So I close my eyes tight
To hurry myself to you
Hoping sleep comes quickly
To carry me to your arms
W......
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Categories:
whisk, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Valentine's Night...Picked out the perfect arrangement
two dozen long stemmed roses
with deep ruby red petals
accented with forget-me-nots
each petal representing a kiss
I'll tread over thos......
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Categories:
whisk, love,
Form:
Free verse