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Portending Poems - Poems about Portending

CRIMSON SKY
...Prompt :"A crimson sky breaks the distant shore" Sponsor : Joseph May Submitted: 20/5/25 Placed : 4th CRIMSON SKY A crimson Sky breaks the distant shore stargates opened veils up......

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Categories: portending, allegory, beautiful, color, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whirlwinds
...Whirlwinds, Teaching me faith, Whirlwinds, Trying to make me fear, But rather I hear, My Father in his tool shed, Making hungry fed, Making naked clothed, Reversing status roles, Saving ever......

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Categories: portending, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Something about Poetry that Grips Me
...There’s something about poetry that grips me Like gravity does the moon, While I keep trying to let it go It treats me like a loon. As if I can’t control myself And these urges in my veins......

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Categories: portending, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spangled Horizons
... Written: January 16, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Joseph May ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Adventure, Beginning Coastal Dreams Echoing Fearless Growing Ho......

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Categories: portending, adventure, analogy,
Form: ABC
Filling The Balloon
...Do you know many things understanding not one Portending your weakness pretense on the run The trash bin of knowledge refills left unchecked Pontificate dirges spout off — to in......

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Categories: portending, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Still stunned with disbelief
...Still stunned with disbelief... that our apartment unit B44 received thumbs up meaning that we passed the grueling, and harrowing yearly inspection three days ago - May 28th, 2024. About a ......

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Categories: portending, angel, anxiety, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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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......

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Categories: portending, change, weather,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member 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......

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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......

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Categories: portending, mirror, silence,
Form: Terza Rima

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