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Best Windmill Poems

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The Old Wooden Windmill (Cowboy Poetry)
Sat on top of High Lonesome Hill
It would scream, cry, lacked grease and oil
The lonely sound as the mountain wind would blow
Pumped ice cold water,...

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© Danny Nunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windmill, cowboy-westernold, day, old,
Form: I do not know?



Windmill
My heart was stopped beside the mill,
Waterfalls, empty pail 
Beyond the barn, in the grim shadows
Bottled like a plan with no purpose
Broken glass under each...

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Categories: windmill, abuse, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silent Sanctuary
This global pandemic causes confusion from social isolation.
In a virtual world without human touch - there will be irritation.

When burdens of life, echo like chunks...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windmill, peace, senses, silence,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

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Categories: windmill, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Hand of Love
The night air flowed over my breath
The covers not quite keeping me warm
Dreams caressing my past
My lover whispers in my ear

Sweet words, with her loving...

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Categories: windmill, art, humanity, inspiration, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Red Rose of the Moulin Rouge
I awaken; the darkened skies my alarm clock
I reek of whiskey, scotch and pastis
Tumbling out of bed, I reach for a cigarette
The dusk harkens as...

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Categories: windmill, rose,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Springtime Song
Mother nature’s songs I cannot exceed 
Of the Whippoorwill out in open field
They partake of mother’s bliss free of greed
Birds and their songs give of...

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Categories: windmill, naturebird, bird,
Form: Sonnet
The Beauty In These Words
The beauty in these words


Rainbows o’er the valley, vibrant colors on the hill
Coconut and apple pies now cooling on the sill
A warm day in November...

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Categories: windmill, beauty, good night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Village of Hardine
The Village of Hardine

The Village of the Windmill

I may do things the old way
Milling grain with windmill dreams
Slowly, that's how we caress our desires
While the...

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Categories: windmill, art, beautiful, lost love,
Form: Lyric
The Devil Danced At Midnight
THE DEVIL DANCED AT MIDNIGHT

The devil danced at midnight
beneath a waning moon
with his minions before him,
twas a sight to make one swoon.
He pranced in jubilation,
then...

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© J. Summers  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windmill, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surprise Factor
(Why I'm Still Breathing)

When the cow was dry, she was compliant.
When she calved, she turned vicious
and no fence could hold her,
but she gave milk in...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windmill, animal, childhood, family, farm,
Form: Narrative
Cut By the Knife
I am young
I am old
I am soft
I am bold
I can laugh
I can cry
I can quit
Still, I can try
Days they pass
Turn to night
Then come dreams
Lost in...

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Categories: windmill, baby, baptism, jesus, love,
Form: I do not know?
One Broken Monoku
tarnished skies tarry 'round windmill - 
                  ...

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Categories: windmill, flower, nature, sky,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Windmills
A memory turns
   the windmills of the mind
 to a season of summer breeze,
   where happiness blows 
cherished moments
 into youthful...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windmill, memory, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under a Prairie Sky
my eyes are stretched by furrowed rows-
twilight lays it’s beauty at my feet

I hear soft harmony of growing wheat
of windmill songs in the breeze
and whispered...

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Categories: windmill, nature
Form: Tanka

Book: Shattered Sighs