Short Maelstrom Poems
Short Maelstrom Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Maelstrom by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Maelstrom by length and keyword.
The deeper you dig
the simpler it gets
Each question supplanted
—the truth in your debt
(Dreamsleep: October, 2022)
Categories:
maelstrom, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Reaching into the maelstrom,
my hands were consumed
My spirit to follow
—my will to assume
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2020)
Categories:
maelstrom, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
flux
transience
fragility
of phenomena
unfurled
unravelled
&evolved
faltering
in
a
melancholy
purpose
of existence
Categories:
maelstrom, poetry, word play,
Form:
Verse
Real poets do not hide
behind ivy covered walls
But write within the maelstrom
—of those voices that call
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)
Categories:
maelstrom, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Wanderer
birdie
sowing
my journey
thickets
playfulness
melodies
pinching
imagination
maelstrom
will taking
wind
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of life
the illusion,
oh... !
Categories:
maelstrom, allegory, allusion, art, extended metaphor, fantasy, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Opened heart
Wanderer
birdie
sowing
my ways
thickets
playfulness
melodies
pinching
imagination
maelstrom
will taking
wind
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of life
the illusion,
oh! ...
Categories:
maelstrom, adventure, allegory, allusion, analogy, heart, metaphor, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
turbulence and flurry arrived in heat of the afternoon
sky turned bonfire berserk in reds, oranges and yellows
a frenzied vortex disturbed every fiber of our being
end of days?
Categories:
maelstrom, storm,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
maelstrom, anger, truth,
Form:
Verse
The pursuit of truth
a lonely endeavor
In stark isolation
veracity found
A choice must be made
to weather the maelstrom
The trek all consuming
— onto higher ground
(Dreamsleep: September, 2024)
Categories:
maelstrom, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
a whirlpool black and hot
i stir up for the
moon
with just a twist and twirl
of this small silver
spoon.
tonight i need no company
to wake me
up.
guess it's enough, this
maelstrom in my coffee
cup!
Categories:
maelstrom, happiness
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Car
crash,
melded
bodies meet.
Symbiotically joined,
Steel, bone, blood, oil, a maelstrom broth,
curdled by singing shrapnel of temporary hell.
Metal screams breaking the rhythm
of organic song.
Crow's lament
carries
lost
souls
Categories:
maelstrom, death, loss,
Form:
Fibonacci
Car
crash,
melded
bodies meet.
Symbiotically joined,
Steel, bone, blood, oil, a maelstrom broth,
curdled by singing shrapnel of temporary hell.
Metal screams breaking the rhythm
of organic song.
Crow's lament
carries
lost
souls
Categories:
maelstrom, death, sad
Form:
Fibonacci
The darkness within the heart,
The flaws of human nature,
The negativity from superiority,
The imbalance of rights and privileges,
The repercussions of unjust acts,
The soul is drawn into the maelstrom.
April 13, 2025.
Categories:
maelstrom, dark, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
The Rapids
~~~~~~~~~
Swept about the river of time
In this land of the living
Like so much waste and debris
Many passers in this torrid stream
Its maelstrom of misery, and grandeur
I reach out briefly
And gently touch another such as I
Categories:
maelstrom, life
Form:
Prose Poetry
They exist
within the shadows of the mind
these creatures of the night.
Unbound by nature’s law
unseen by all but those they torment
hidden in the fearful nothingness
of memories maelstrom.
©6/13/2022
Creatures of the Night Poetry Contest
Categories:
maelstrom, night,
Form:
Free verse
I am Havoc
born in a Maelstrom
of raging Chaos
that forms perfect Pandemonium
where Calamity breathes Mayhem
birthing Devastation
so my advice to you my dear
give Billy Joel a call
he may just be the lunatic
you are looking for
OKC 6/22
Categories:
maelstrom, fun,
Form:
Free verse
A metrical escape valve,
letters in the maelstrom
Lightning on the horizon,
second child of the Gods
Sacrificial waterfall,
its current overflowing
A literal dilation
—of the verbal supreme
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
Categories:
maelstrom, writing,
Form:
Free verse
in the modern world we have been hurled,
the maelstrom is inside us,
the greed of rich do cast their pitch,
the feathers can't abide much.
tarred and feathered,
brainwashed for 2 blind us....
of: Kerry Singleton-s "Revelation"
Don Johnson
Categories:
maelstrom, adventure,
Form:
Ballad
His life spinning inward,
to its center returned
A whirlwind of intent,
—through the maelstrom it churned
His end was beginning,
as the last became first
All time banished outward,
—evil Gargouille dispersed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
Categories:
maelstrom, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Mainstay of madness
Ebon hearted gravity
Temporal maelstrom
Anthropomorphic
Planetary energy
HEART of world TERAH
Yawning Void Dreadnaught
Superluminal warship
Infernal machine
Carbon based life form
Ancient beyond reckoning
Learned the ways of peace
Categories:
maelstrom, earth, future, magic, mythology,
Form:
Acrostic
the harshest of all inventions
wind machine of origin divine
driving plank through tree trunk
and the animals in the zoo understand
code yellow, orange, red
time remaining: just a shred
deciding what to wear
as the maelstrom cometh
make up your mind
ask the angels
Categories:
maelstrom, natural disasters, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
i'm not
a flat earther
in fact
a fat circumfermenser
so knowing
that i try
to look
at my toes
but by gosh
by golly
i see
my belly
then also
taking in
how hairy
i am
a sinking ship
swirling down
to a not
Bermuda
triangle
but a lost
lint filled
bellybutton
Categories:
maelstrom, muse,
Form:
I do not know?
a whirlpool black and hot
I stir up for the moon
with just a twist and twirl
of this small silver spoon;
tonight I need no company
to wake me up,
guess it's enough, this maelstrom
in my coffee cup.
Categories:
maelstrom, imagination, introspection, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Reaching into the
public conscience
words are tokened free
Blowing fresh holes
through blind indenture
light for all to see
Reaching into the
common ledger …
its double-entry fate
Paying the debt
on tomorrow’s maelstrom
—seeking heaven’s gate
(The New Room: June, 2023)
Categories:
maelstrom, heaven,
Form:
Rhyme
Awareness drifts in a pool of sinew, flesh, fat, muscle, cartilage, hair, nail, bone, sodden skin, fluid, bile, excrement, blood, swirling in the maelstrom; in its belly thought.
Clarity forgotten, dissolved, flushed down the drain without Mercy.
Bon Secours,
Bon Voyage.
©dbyrne June 2014
Categories:
maelstrom, allusion, death, dedication,
Form:
Free verse