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Best Windowsills Poems

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Sitting On Windowsills, I Remember
Feverish cleptic safe
Slipped in kept sacred place
Found you near bamboo shoots
Horizon of our youths
Drag this thunder out of me 
Wonder
I don't want to be beam...

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© Te Indi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windowsills, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Beyond the Rose-Covered Gate
I'm sensing something familiar as a lost memory
coming back and revealing itself in realistic form;
glancing at the rose-covered gate without a worm,
it looks different, somewhat...

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Categories: windowsills, beautiful, desire, emotions, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waltzing Lilac Winds
golden beams of dawn
are glinting amber prairies--
smiles of daffodils

enchanting day break
are red, white, purple tulips--
pride of early spring

waltzing lilac winds
charm violet hyacinth--
gems on windowsills

June 4,...

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Categories: windowsills, imagery, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Shower of Flowers
Tulips fronting daffodils
  Azaleas in pots on windowsills

Rows of rainbow chrysanthemums
  Mingle with orange geraniums

Bright pink peonies ready to pop
  A bird...

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Categories: windowsills, color, flower,
Form: Couplet
Serenade To Growing Up In the Fifties
When I was just a  little girl, we lived by railroad tracks;
we loved the steamy, smoky stacks, the wheels clickety clack.
On many days we...

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Categories: windowsills, childhood, cousin, family, memory,
Form: Narrative



Daffodils
many daffodils
beautiful on windowsills
narcissus appeals

one yellow divine
single or double refine
purist flower mine

dainty and sublime
standing hours at a time
waving in their prime

*For Carol Browns "What's The...

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Categories: windowsills, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Gutter Frogs
The neighborhood has been going, to every variety of dogs.
But I simply can’t believe it… We now have Gutter Frogs!
They climb upon my windowsills, and...

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Categories: windowsills, fun, funny, happiness, humor,
Form: Light Verse
A Personal Day
Ever have one of those days
where you just have to get away
from the daily work grind...
where you can just kick back, 
relax a little,
and finally...

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Categories: windowsills, adventure, fantasy, work,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Happy Birthday
I say; Happy Birthday, to you today.
To someone special, in a loving way.
I dedicate this song to you.
And give my thanks, for all the time...

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Categories: windowsills, birthday, song, daffodils,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Two Hawaiians, a Sunset and a Memory
Two Aloha-shirted Hawaiians 
of generous girth were strumming 
their ukuleles 
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon, 
rehearsing...

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Categories: windowsills, blessing, happiness, memory, places,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Molly My Watch-Bird
Well I could write endlessly about Frankie my cute English bulldog,
But when it comes to being a good watchdog, she’s closer to a log.
I do...

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© Lee Ramage  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windowsills, animals, funny, bird, bird,
Form: Rhyme
Hanging Roses In Windows
I learned from my grandmother
To dry roses in windows
Hung, upside down, from a string-
Maybe because that way
All the red would flow to their head
Like when...

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Categories: windowsills, analogy, grandmother, memory, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Finding Presence
Finding Presence

Night sky beckoning dawn
Gentle sensations 
Early morning walks
Empty avenues
Central Park breezes
Village cobblestone streets 
Wet with glistening reflections
Accompany the seeker’s every move

Citified whispers
Discordant choruses
The street...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: windowsills, on work and working,
Form: Free verse
Charming Patterns
Gods of glowing neon and gaudy screens
smile upon charming, charming patterns of heads.
All colors of hair, lit red, then green, then blue,
guided along invisible paths,...

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Categories: windowsills, beauty, humanity, nature, pollution,
Form: Free verse
We Live By Time
We live by time
And not the eternity that is its envelope.
We live in space
And not the infinity that gives the universe its scope.
We live by...

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Categories: windowsills, life,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things