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Boreas Poems - Poems about Boreas

Horatio Nelson
... Years ago I did so choose, to go on a Caribbean clipper ship cruise, and, in addition to several other islands, anchored off Nevis, northwest of Saint Kitts, where, in the late 1780's, N......

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Categories: boreas, boat, character, fun, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Along With The Thunder
... Along with the Thunder came Tempestas, goddess of storms turtle doves scattered on corrugated roof, grey feathers flying when glimpsing her fierce amber countenance this is time of rattlin......

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Categories: boreas, allegory, cat, character, color,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wind and Snow, Fire and Ice
... The gods are angry and growing angrier. Poseidon views his beautiful ocean despoiled with garbage, poisoned and polluted by heedless humans. He rages to Hephaestus and Vulcan, gods of cre......

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Categories: boreas, anger, emotions, environment, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Feel The Eagle Feathers Of Zeus
... Inspired by Ink Hermes, Patron God of travelers in winged sandals and caduceus staff you claim Godspeed as you fly on and on and on Nike, Goddess of victo......

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Categories: boreas, beauty,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Stillness in November
...Over harvested fields — I walk beneath the fading afterglow of a forgotten lantern a path worn by wanderers older than the scroll of Zeno its damp salve seeping through my coat into m......

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Categories: boreas, autumn, farm, november,
Form: Pastoral



Premium Member Dandelion Woman
...Oh look here— behold a dandelion woman the original wild flower! I go where I want to go I grow where I want to grow — don't matter if y o u say no dandelion wine summertime relax and rec......

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Categories: boreas, beauty, conflict, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boreas by John William Waterhouse 1902 Oil on Canvas
...It’s not that I am languid, more that I am chagrined. So disappointed to be met by this dreadful north wind. I am on my way to see him, and I will look so disheveled. I am convinced the god Boreas......

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Categories: boreas, wind,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member WIND aka homer
...Notus so wet & wild Eurus a dryer warm child Zephryus a sudden gale Boreas brutal outside the icy pale......

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Categories: boreas, weather, wind,
Form: Quatrain
Absolute deafening silence
...Absolute deafening silence... during and after a moderate snowfall today January 19th, 2024, within Southeastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere across the Eastern Seaboard, whereby blanket of whit......

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Categories: boreas, adventure, age, angel, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Winter Sonata - POTD
...Winter Sonata 11-29-23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Winter Sonata In grave allegro solo grey gathers, Strings of winter fantasias Brewing staccatos of frozen fall remnants,......

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Categories: boreas, song, winter,
Form: Free verse
Ice Angel
...Soft flurry of snow, blown south to the sea, brisk breath of Boreas breaks summer's stupe. What strange, phantom dream here stands before me, freezing river's course till it runs a loop? How ra......

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Categories: boreas, angel, longing, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Wind God
...Wind god Boreas- god Of Winter and North Wind Swept down from cold northern mountains of Thrake He blew Cold icy gusts Of breath from bloated cheeks- Hair and beard spiked with ice, wide mo......

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Categories: boreas, god, mythology, wind,
Form: Cinquain
Tale of Two Cats Chasing a Toy
...Like the North Wind, Sent by Boreas to lay driven snow, pure and white, an ivory whirlwind blows through my living room. The rodent, pink as embarrassment, flies with the speed of a crossb......

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Categories: boreas, analogy, animal, cat, winter,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member Have You Noticed
.... Have you noticed how mature leaves fall Roofs of houses are blanketed ......

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Categories: boreas, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spirited Gestures
...*Image of Morning Rise by Giphy. Spirited Gestures Cast restlessness about the wind, That toss and empty leaves from trees, The autumn season sees them thinned, A tingling sense ......

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Categories: boreas, appreciation, beautiful, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

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