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Portending Poems - Poems about Portending

Portending Poems - Examples of all types of poems about portending to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for portending.
Premium Member Peter Pan Lost to the Captain's Hook
... I remember that I once called him Peter Pan The man I loved, and yet a child at heart to me A name that became vividly more portending at pretending than I ever could've imagined. A lost boy ......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, lost love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Trick Or Treat
...After the day’s work I was off to bed. From behind my room, I heard a fierce thud. It sounded so scary. It left me so weary. I got up from my bed in severe dread. In dim light, saw......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, crazy, dark, fear, halloween,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Red Moon Rising
...A blood moon's spiritual meaning through history, was a bad o......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, anxiety, image, moon, myth,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Out of This World
...Sipping her tea without any visible relish, Her crumpled bag of shopping at her tired feet, Alone she sits in the cafe and isolatedly apart Stranded in her sorrowful sea of sadness Only to rai......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, death, loneliness, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bright Day In November
...A bright day in November, a welcome sight Brief respite from Autumn’s turning cold, Portending signs of coming winter’s night. A bright day in November, a welcome sight To feel the su......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, day, november, sun, sunshine,
Form: Triolet



Premium Member One of Those Days
...Some days linger like a song You cannot rid your brain of Slow minutes tick all day long, When push comes to shove Everything seems to go wrong. Just getting through is a fight Su......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, day, encouraging, feelings, perspective,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Premium Member Weather Is Changing
...When skies are crystal clear and cloudless The sun is mercilessly like a blast furnace, Signs of cyclical global warming doubtless And enough of it will undoubtedly turn us Into a fre......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, change, weather,
Form: Quatrain
The Peaceful Pacific
...A road trip through the Pacific West, from Seattle along Sequim, Ocean Shore, Seaside, all the way to San Francisco. The Pacific roared beside. Frequent signs warned of Tsunami hazard. While......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, america, anxiety, journey, natural
Form: Free verse
At Night When I Am With Me
...The time descends when night to be, In close touch, communion with me, It holds mirror to me to see, To look into the day so spent, To scan the truth of each moment, It’s time to seek adverse......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, mirror, silence,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Song of the Lark
...The song of the lark returns To the edge of the woodland She greets me cheerfully trilling As I stroll across the flowering lea, Her welcome tones portending A fine day awaiting the ......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, bird, morning, nature,
Form: Free verse
This Soothsayer's Warning July 24th 2021
...This SoothSayer's Warning – July 24th, 2021 Dire prognostications (terrestrial inhabitants blithely heeded) with contemporary age fortune tellers foretell day of (w)reckoning, sans total mo......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, abortion, abuse, caregiving, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rusty Joy
...A Franky and Spud Encounter The coach, old and rusty, pulled up at the gate The horses, portending the schoolchildren’s fate Franky looked over and thought it was great While Spud bore ......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, childhood, horse, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Antebellum Elegy
...Prologue Abandoned and in disrepair the mansion Is dark now; a story behind every stanchion. It is an unwitting monument to a way of life, Since foreclosed through bloody civil strife. Ant......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, history, native american,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The House Near the Park
...Brooding, unlit and unkempt A house that is daylight exempt Sits three doors down from the park Its doors and its windows are dark Weekly a grocer arrives Drops off a bag of supplies The door......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, anniversary, child, grief, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Morning Rain
...The clearest sky follows a warm morning rain [Experience tells me this again and again] Sometimes bringing a brightly colored rainbow To remind me of God’s great promise, although Shado......Read the rest...
Categories: portending, nature, rain, rainbow, sky,
Form: Rondeau

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