Best Whoosh Poems

Blue washes over me sometimes and will not let me go.
Melancholy soon becomes the ROAR  of frothing ocean waves,  
 toppling me ...

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The old rusty gate CREAKS open,
                   ...

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I was a sitting duck when the tide came in.
No idea it would go past my chin.
I struggled and I flopped.
I bucked and I hopped.
It...

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Wind Song

Winter winds whoosh over the wilderness
In wild waltzes that warn of wanton storms.

On zephyr’s wings spring floats through soft breezes
Soft touch on tender petals
Feels...

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Life comes at you
through a haze of words
distorted and cloaked
by the grey murk of meaning.
Its shape becomes solid
as it passes through
the last droplets of syllables.
In...

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Slowly spring sun caresses the land
As kowhais will softly provoke 
Flushes of yellow to gently expand
Their buds of the season uncloak
Helping bellbirds escape from winter’s...

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Wicked wind I hate you so,
I’d rather sit in ice cold snow,
Your breath is cold and touch 
So fraught, I think your soul from
Devil bought...

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WHAT IT ISN’T

It isn’t waiting for the downtown trolley
Hearing the ding of its bell

Isn’t knowledge of threat
Walking around Municipal Square
In rain, snow or fair

Chin up
Eyes...

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The excitement mounted as we rummaged around in the attic looking through old steamer trunks for discarded clothes and props to make Halloween costumes. With...

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Sit back and listen to the music
let it flood over you stirring your soul
as you listen to the oh so haunting notes
close your eyes and...

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The simplicity of life
Transparent as black glass
Bordering my ever contemplating mind
And the annoyingly optimistic
High pitched
And easily recognizable
Music of the Beatles
Struggles to overcome 
my black soul
And...

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Wind

wandered

whispering

when wondrously. . .

Whoosh!


“Wail,”

went wind

while whirling

with wild whipping

whines.


March 11, 2019 for Joseph May's Light Up The Page 2 Poetry Contest...

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“Hey, look there Jim, the young girl said
        look at that rusty gate ahead?
    ...

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on mountain's peak
                     at autumn’s...

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windsongs

whispering windsongs
 whoosh with warm whimsical waves ~
  wild waxwing waltzes

1-18-22
Contest: Nature based Haiku
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin

"Windsong" is the name of one of John Denver's...

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