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Best Wispy Poems

Below are the all-time best Wispy poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wispy poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: wispy, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: wispy, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise
Once Upon a Purple Sunrise

Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.

Haloed in hazy...

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Categories: wispy, memory, morning, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...

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Categories: wispy, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Glory of the Eastern Edge
In moments of twilight civility
an exchange of gifts - 
darkness for light..

RISING

from beyond the softening silhouette edge
you brighten like a blushing damsel
hazy haloed
unabashed in the...

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Categories: wispy, appreciation, beauty, imagery, morning,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member summer rain -
I wade into the surf and stand alone

                 ...

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Categories: wispy, bereavement, goodbye, soulmate, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore to be held to.
Her grace, soft as the silence of...

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Categories: wispy, appreciation, beauty, loss, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wispy, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Shedding Trees of Autumn
I've heard your whispers
in quiet moments 
amongst the shedding trees of Autumn..

I walk alone our wooded path – listening
the air just as crisp as a...

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Categories: wispy, autumn, beauty, death, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abigail's Spring - POTW
Abigail’s Spring  

Beneath the shelter of winter’s barren arbor
My winter abused heart
Watches the day’s light linger in the sky resisting darkness -
Begging to play...

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Categories: wispy, life, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Season of Silence
When nature wilts into 
                  a colorless haven,...

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Categories: wispy, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Grace, Soft As the Silence of Morn's Falling Dew
Her Grace, Soft As The Silence Of Morn's Falling Dew
 
Her romantic letters, birth as heart pure and true 
supported deep vows we both swore...

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Categories: wispy, appreciation, art, beautiful, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Streams of Imagination
early dawn cracks the  wispy air
open , wandering around viscous spaces
like fairy shadows caressing the edge
of sleep… and the days stretch longer,
 
taller than...

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Categories: wispy, imagination, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Adult Lullaby
In my arms you can forget your troubles
Close your eyes and leave them all behind
I’ll sway you tenderly to loving rhythms
I’ll comfort you to sweet...

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Categories: wispy, health, love, Lullaby, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing On the Wind
"In the absence of complication,
 trials and tribulations become distant memories.
  Above sapphire skies delight sanguine eyes -
  inspiring forthcoming musings of the...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wispy, sky, wind,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs