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Headland Poems - Poems about Headland

Premium Member Becoming
... If you get there early enough you will see the wide, waking yawn of first light open on the bay, see the air break into birds and the far shore of the headland emerge from its thick cloak of......

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Categories: headland, creation, morning, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Beowulf translation by Michael R Burch
...Beowulf Excerpts anonymous Old English/Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 8th-10th century AD loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch LO, praise the prowess of the Spear-Danes whose clan-than......

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Categories: headland, courage, dream, heart, heaven,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Strayed Sheep
... I see the sea. The odds at sea, Sound’s Greek to me. As the channel frees......

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Categories: headland, allusion, animal, extended metaphor,
Form: Ekphrasis
Dancing Dependence
...Her affections charm me like nothing else, Captivating kindness clutches my heart with care. Standing at the headland, her head rests, before we head home. I’m the head of the outing, though so......

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Categories: headland, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member All That I Have Taken In
...At day's end, I take in the last light seeping into the dark waters across the bay and keep it here. I gather the sound of departing gulls smudged on the sky, the quietening settle of birds in t......

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Categories: headland, eve, nature, spiritual, sunset,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tule Fog Dixon, California
...I wait for the heat of the Allis Chalmers crawler’s engine to fill the tarped in space where I sit huddled next to levers, gauges and knobs. The crawler seems to float. The tule fog obscures th......

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Categories: headland, death, farm, seasons, youth,
Form: Free verse
Mister Jones
...If you're sitting comfortably and have locked your mobile 'phones, I'll tell you all a story about Indiana Jones I met him on a wooden bench whilst strolling through a park He was mumbling incoher......

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Categories: headland, adventure, celebrity, fantasy, international,
Form: Rhyme
Adeity Delirium
...the body has receded into a fetus, imploding in thrombosis in the parts also inside out and in the microcosm of the eye the retina retained a little or not at all of the color that turned from g......

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Categories: headland, imagination, sad,
Form: Free verse
Alternative Education
...The headland bush is paradise, especially through the week, there's rocks to climb; a couple of caves, and a shaded running creek. Ron and I have found secret spots, where we can hide our fish......

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Categories: headland, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lights and the Silos
... an hour before docking it was ice cold and freezing as the vessel, like scissors cut clean through the swell and the ship’s horn then sounded and woke those still sleeping startling the sta......

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Categories: headland, journey, morning, sea, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unified Chant
...Cipher audible as morning treetop cacophony Each other's cheer-leading decree Sunami strength help brought forth deafening Viewed issues dealt cooperatively Delighted audie......

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Categories: headland, best friend, caregiving, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Outside the Headland
...Leaking pontoon predicts my departure Impatient yacht chases nautical next Mislaid terrain erases my history Grim authorities in obvious places patrol Timidity prescribes aghast of tranquil a......

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Categories: headland, adventure, confidence, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Haunted Highlands
...Deep within the highland mists, white heather, bright adorning, I last beheld those flaring eyes, though tender as the borning. I'd gone a-hiking, early snow, 'midst headland slopes and fell......

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Categories: headland, fantasy, passion, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Joie De Vivre
...Upon a whim arising on this sunny springtime morn hearing birds perform their songs at the crack of dawn my knapsack packed already with a tasty picnic lunch bread with cheese and wine oh such a ......

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Categories: headland, beauty, flower, nature, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Red Rock
...Funny the things you find out With a curious mind And walking shoes How beautiful And priceless The view From atop the headlands At Red Rock Of course, the rocks are red Jasper I believe B......

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Categories: headland, memory, murder, red,
Form: Free verse

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