Best Winsome Poems
Winsome Wisteria Sonnet
Eden, open your ardent arms to grace
Wisteria's soft lilac petaled blooms
Draped stunningly about Spring’s sunny face
In softest shades of lavender like plumes.
Your aroma wafts heady in the breeze
When graceful racemes descend from above.
Divine as the frilling flowering trees
Your stunning sight captures my heart with love.
Goddess Venus must surely be aware
Of the glorious sight that you bestow
Like dainty dangling ringlets in Spring’s hair
As zephyrs sprinkle your petals below.
I am profoundly moved by your presence
And tranquilly transported with pleasance.
4-19-21
Poems of the Day April 21, 2021 ~Thank you Team Poetry Soup!
ALL YOURS (Apr 20)Contest -First Place
Sponsor Brian Strand
Your best sonnet this year so far Contest -Second Place
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Where hyacinths bloom, cardinals hop and sing,
Winsome is the visage of verdant vibrant spring
Beautifying fragrant prairies, blossoming trees,
Alluring bees waltzing on wings of tender breeze
Undulating gleefully crest of burbling streams,
Frolicking on melodies of robin’s nesting dreams,
Euphoric in hilarity of dancing yellow daffodils,
Merriment of white lilies, panorama of foothills,
Spring’s revelry buoying where butterflies spree,
An eagle’s flight above marveling splendorous glee.
May 3, 2022
Placed 2nd: Spring Rhyme: 8-12 Lines Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Spring tantalizingly unfolds vernal, winsome
Blossoms of lilies pristine, undulating to appease
Fawning nectar-dreams adrift on wings of bees
Frolicking tranquility of rustling flowering trees
Refulgent summer, too, unpacks variegated
Revelry on rivers, oceans, flamboyant meadows
As ubiquitously nature paints blooms primrose
On hills and valleys oscillating jubilant shadows
Autumn’s brilliance courts dazzling ebullience
Of mellowed sun scintillating eventide’s ruby glow
Where gamboge leaves of fall amber winds blow
As passions of romance vie moonlit stellar show
Snowfalls titillate, unveiling vehement winter
In eyes of lovers ruminating in blessings of yore
When enticing beats of hearts indulgently implore
Aesthetic glacial memories venerated evermore
July 31, 2021
Placed 1st: Alpha lines poetry contest
Sponsor: Joseph May
Placed 1st: A Brian Strand Rhyme Contest
A
winsome
wind wanders
whimsically
through a meadow white
with wild flowers. Wending
its way through woods, it whistles
warmly while waltzing with willows.
Waning, it meets wisteria, where
now a mere wisp, it whispers wistfully.
An etheree with alliteration written March 21, 2016
Winsome Wisteria
Eden open your arms to grace
Wisteria's soft petaled blooms
Draped stunningly about Spring’s face
In shades of lavender like plumes.
Your scent wafts heady in the breeze
When racemes descend from above.
Divine as the flowering trees
Your sight captures my heart with love.
Goddess Venus must be aware
Of the glory that you bestow.
Like dangling ringlets in Spring’s hair
Wind sprinkles your petals below.
When over the arbor you vine
I'm deeply moved by your presence
You loom aesthetically divine…
Transporting me with your pleasance.
8-11-16
Each one of us has His or Her own Flower of Attraction - Poetry Contest
Sponsor Rick Parise
Uplift the scent of stars from nightshade.
Sprinkle moondust upon unearthly skies.
Portals light up
And smile within.
Welcome to the garden of breathless night.
Swings the cedar from the country porch.
Chiming butterflies verdigris flight.
Charmed in calico dress,
Summer flirts with the best.
Nearby birdhouse-chapel whitewashed with light.
The wicker basket and hallowed bells of bicycle mourn.
The lovers depart at the winsome gate of Winterborne.
Two wheels spin,
With goodbye grin.
The clinging vine, in sorrow, slow waits until morrow.
3/29/2018
She could have been the
Most DELICATE ROSE.
But a rose nevertheless
She was a BEAUTY
I suppose, a WINSOME rose
She was intrinsically mine.
By ELABORATE design
I AWOKE to a beauty
Well defined and QUITE DEVINE
OH yes REGAL and refined
Gazing upon her ESSENCE
There, one thousand SUMMERS young.
No ordinary rose
Gentle snowflakes and perfumes.
Every tender petal was
An obvious tribute to
Her true beauty
Lovely and overwhelming
I was consumed with
FEVERISH devotion
How PROFOUND, a PERFECT ROSE
A FLAMING beauty, I RESOUND
A precious JOY
I have found.
Tis a grand vocation
to be an inspiration
Tis a winsome aspiration
may be an oblation
May take some time
along with perspiration
Along with dedication
may come a solved equation
Tis a winsome aspiration
may come with some elation.
Tis a grand vocation
to be an inspiration.
Copyright McCuen 2009
A pale of spreading green
Fresh from earth’s inner need
Where she keeps her secrets
Talking to all green things
On some winsome April day
Unfurl your new banners
Against the lingering grey
Unhinge the sun, chase the shade
Freshen the sweet air
And let the smiling breezes blow
Soft, supple reaching heavenward
Fingers of green bud, break open
Into canopies cover, hover, Azure shells make spring birds,
and all the leafy creatures that Surround soft supple shades
For the world has turned ‘round again.
As the wind tosses winsome heather
As the wind tosses winsome heather
In the currents of an airy sea
In the currents of an airy sea
In the currents of winsome heather
The wind tosses as an airy sea
The senses filled with scent of sweet breeze
The senses filled with scent of sweet breeze
On the wind is sweet flower perfume to tease
On the wind is sweet flower perfume to tease
Sweet scent; on wind is perfume to tease
Senses filled with the flower breeze
Inhale the gust; seize it as a beautiful memory
Inhale the gust; seize it as a beautiful memory
Capture this winsome heather memory forever
Capture this winsome heather memory forever
Inhale the gust; capture a winsome memory
Capture the wind in memory ,
One gust is a perfume tease
This sweet scent of flower inhale, seize
as it tosses winsome heather
on the beautiful breeze;
Senses filled with the currents of an airy sea forever.
Weighty is the charm in its fulsome
Irresistibly well and wholesome
Never short of radiance so fearsome
Soft, sweet and gentle, all is her sum
Of this rare beauty, please give me some
Marry me, let’s both make a handsome
Eyes and hearts know how you are lovesome
One woman of a certain percentage,
Kept her upkeep to skillful advantage.
As the years sped past,
She maintained her class;
Not turning old but into fine vintage.
slender, graceful, limber limbs
swaying gently with the wind
slight of frame, strong of root
softly bending down to shade
Ashes Of Youth, Its Winsome Colors Gone
Time had came, last night of dear life had called
ashes of youth, its winsome colors gone.
Left, shades of joyful life, all it enthralled
leaving then, no longer could she hang on.
Stood not, power to cease chiming clocks ticks
nor grant more sweet days of touching them all.
At last slow motion came, driving all clicks
Then last shadow began destiny's call.
Prayers uttered had no true, saving effect
dying-veil of darkness had embraced her.
Fate, its savage master sent to collect
was done in a blink, soul's final transfer.
Smiling, Fate winked at we few that remained
Message, when touched your life too, will be drained.
Robert J. Lindley, 2-02-2017
Sonnet
Note: Poem was written on Death.... my mother's..
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
? Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967
Winsome student enrolled with a rap sheet name,
school authorities rue the day you first came
Such a young fearless rebel,
mischief and mayhem always seem to follow
Wonder who made the bathroom toilets explode
Plead your rebellious cause,
explain the flooded basement hall
The cost of educating you ain't small,
but it do give the principal pause
Your substitute teacher is scared,
her students said she was hiding under a chair
She believes you are the reason she's losing her hair
School counselor thinks you're emotionally impaired,
and the faculty want their grievances against you aired
Winsome rebel, how is it you became who you are?
What force forged, then dropped you from a malevolent shooting star?
Angry non-conformist child who was born in the back of a tavern bar
Was with your parents when they were killed by a speeding oncoming car
Got a mad heart that carries such a deep soul searing scar
Gonna burn a blazing path, because a charming rebel can always go far