Best Windswept Poems
I always answer
Without hesitation
To adventure’s calls
Through waves that toss
Winds that batter
I survive squalls
On a sea of emotion
Alone I swirl
Feeling blue
My rowboat has two oars
Two benches
Shouldn’t it carry two?
Sky and sea
Speak of eternity
But they have each other
I would give all
Just to know love
And sail with another
Categories:
windswept, loneliness, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
Windswept
Over sheet music, harmonious movement of sand.
Droplets of rain dance - time swooning on sea and on land.
Cupid’s arrows climb, descend strings of the violin.
Heartthrobs, side by side, in best dress, on seasonal spin.
Fingers up and down long necks, in obeisance of song,
as bow ties glide along knightly, mounting music, strong.
Ultra concentration as the conductor gyrates,
creates, weights, debates, elongates, plaits and translates.
Unity in mass, jealousy laid aside, except
for the audience who longs to climb inside, windswept.
Ebb and flow of tears, patiently are kept and foreswear
allegiance to current marriage with hasty prayer.
Silver fox-french horns, don’t withhold their breaths, breasts pounding.
With lilt, rapturous, they’d give up their lives, resounding.
White pages, pristine ties, good looking manners of tides.
Hourglass climax expires. Silence shatters. Faith abides.
Categories:
windswept, beauty, love, music,
Form:
Couplet
an old memory
is swept away by the wind...
we follow the clouds
__________
Inspired by Skat's contest: Picture Perfect
5/25/15
Categories:
windswept, beautiful, nostalgia,
Form:
Haiku
Those pesky leaves adored by youth.
Hued leaves and wind, a conjoined twin.
Autumn flurry of windswept sooth.*
Kids harvest fell-wings, to jump in.
Hued leaves and wind, a conjoined twin.
The twirl, the whirl of crimson red.
Kids harvest fell-wings, to jump in.
Crisp yellow, brown and purple fed.
The twirl, the whirl of crimson red.
Six feet deep, each yard grows fatter.
Crisp yellow, brown and purple fed.
When swept in piles, they oft’ scatter.
Six feet deep, each yard grows fatter.
Autumn flurry of windswept sooth.
When swept in piles, they oft’ scatter -
Those pesky leaves adored by youth.
9/8/2022
Contest: AUTUMN PANTOUM
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger
Rhymezone used to verify rhymes
*sooth - reality
Categories:
windswept, autumn,
Form:
Pantoum
once upon a time
a wedding day handkerchief
with lovely white lace
an old garter belt
borrowed and fastened on thigh
a groom with blue eyes
a nosegay bouquet
tucked in baby’s breath
fastened with ribbon
the bride’s train so long
ring bearer, flower girls ride
for a couple hours
then into the wind
with the groomsman by her side —
the unbridled bride
12/28/2018
Categories:
windswept, wedding,
Form:
Choka
Let us drink to this
Ancient windswept stone, the pearl
Of Atlantic sea
All rights released into Public Domain
Categories:
windswept, age, allusion, beauty, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
High atop a mountain, a windswept hill
I thought I'd found my true love, name of Jill
We arched our backs and kissed
I thought I heard a 'Pssst'
My wife?! ~ Her lawyer will send me the bill
Categories:
windswept, divorce, lust, mountains, passion,
Form:
Limerick
so this is it?
we are calling it a day
even though it's night
who said we can't change the rules?
it is just a simple line
between here and there
in the middle is where we're suppose to exhale
but you decided to inhale would be best
who knew that would be like a new start
walking away should not have been a factor..
windswept we were
bold steps were needed,
no one said we should do it all in one day...
take your time…
19/05/2011.. 13:30
Categories:
windswept, introspection, love
Form:
Free verse
Wind Swept Beauty.
.
Upon hilly brackish tor
Of a wild inhospitable
Windswept ambling moor
Woolly sheep chew cud and bleat
In the shadow of the over looking
Rugged towering sister mountains
.
A sprawling sweeping land
Of tawny browns and greens
And carpets of purple heather
Laid by God’s hand in between
.
Linier lecithin blotched
Higgledy piggledy drystone walls
Boundary lines
Thickets of bracken
Woody copper copse
With steeple wind battered tree tops
.
Silver ribboned stream and brooks
Snaking through the rugged land
Gushing rushing over
Stone pebble and boulder
Sparkling cold clear and clean
Lazy pouting gasping trout
Suddenly turn and try to kiss the sky
As a flock of flapping crows
With raucous calls pass by
.
A harsh unforgiving land
Weather beaten unrefined
Rugged beauty upon sodden earth
On which it defiantly stands
Under temperamental moody
Ominous varied darkened sky’s
Capturing many a heart
And pleasing the eye.
.
Peter Dome©2020.
Categories:
windswept, beauty,
Form:
Windswept dreams
My windswept dreams
follow satin spider webs,
creating wish spun tapestries,
in patterns of desire threaded
among yawning willows
lazily flowing, shifting colors,
reflecting the cheerfulness
of an early morning sun,
blue skies smiling
Love sent messages,
passionate poetic whispers,
floating on powder puff clouds
softly wafting the winding path
woven of marigold promises
and butterfly tickles, through
oleander hedge mazes
shaped of nature’s beauty,
guiding them to your heart
Good morning Soupers
Categories:
windswept, good morning,
Form:
Free verse
16.12.08
Proud windswept child
How shall I not
Look onto thee with fright?
- The Lord has spoken,
Loud and clear -
His will men cannot fight.
The Lord has spoken,
Yes - He said -
"As Sarah thou shall be -
The mother of six millions,
Those perished and decieved."
The Lord had mercy over me -
He sent His Angels forth,
Those strong-winged guardians
With their hard,
Never failing support.
Until the end comes
I shall fear
To speak about their names:
Of Hunger,
Pain,
Of Terror,
Grief,
And of their brother -
Shame.
Oh windswept child,
Thou need not say
What Lord has given thee -
The might of all Jerusalem,
The freedom of the sea...
And blissfully He lets you stand
Before my tearless eyes -
He gives you sheer naivety,
A will to be surprised.
So easily He lets you think
All power is now yours -
But lessons history shall teach
Will show that you were wrong...
Categories:
windswept, history, life, philosophy, political,
Form:
Windswept Dreams
“Find this day on glistened beams, the love within my windswept dreams"
My windswept dreams follow satin spider webs, creating wish spun tapestries
in patterns of desire threaded among yawning willows lazily flowing, shifting colors,
reflecting the cheerfulness of an early morning sun on blue skies smiling.
Love sent messages, passionate poetic whispers, floating on powder puff clouds
softly seeking the winding path woven of marigold promises and butterfly tickles,
through oleander hedge mazes shaped of nature’s beauty, guiding them to your heart
Good Morning Soupers
Categories:
windswept, good morning,
Form:
Free verse
The storm has come and gone the calm has returned to the sky limbs are swept back like a swan fledgling leaves stay not ready to fly but silvery trees trunks are twisted knurled curled by the battling wind looking muscular and double fisted conformed by storm and twinned like they were frozen in the time of war
Categories:
windswept, irony, nature, storm, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
vivacity of windswept tulips
tremulous to a jejune soul
2/27/2023
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Categories:
windswept, flower,
Form:
Crystalline
It is late autumn with windswept trees,
Now stripped of leaves
Once vibrant with colorful hues,
Now dull, lacking brilliance, or
Windswept and leafless.
Oak trees, deeply rooted, now
Russet and muted
Stragglers, rarely leafless til spring.
Setting the mood bleak,
It is late autumn with windswept trees.
Categories:
windswept, autumn, color, environment, nature,
Form:
Free verse