Gusting
Trees swayed by breeze
Leaves blew across the field
Dust lifted into a vortex
Whirlwind
Categories:
speeds, environment, weather, wind,
Form: Cinquain
Another whistling train speeds by in midnoon,
the jeering lad waves at pensive passengers
absorbed in serene, not adverse feelings;
his youth is vibrant and ready to lampoon!
Daises, jasmines and violets are gently lulled
in their wild and lush meadows as it rushes by;
ravens disperse in pervasive fear so unequaled;
what was too calm turns into chaos: a pitiful cry!
Is it nostalgia he clings to, or something else?
That landscape is as vivid as his happy yesterday;
he hears the shrieking horn, its sound is not terse:
crossing the tracks can be fatal in mischievous play!
The adventurous boy climbs the breezily and balmy hills,
and excited by the spectacular view, he begins to hum;
all sonorous canaries start warbling to accompany him:
they echo in the valley below to awaken church bells!
Another whistling train speeds by in midnoon,
he describes this scenery in an evocative poem;
no tears go to waste, they're precious to him:
it's nighttime, even darkness will grant his boon!
Categories:
speeds, childhood, joy, kid, memory,
Form: Rhyme
time speeds up - until you can’t catch your breath
8/19/2022
Categories:
speeds, time,
Form: Monoku
The dawn speeds swift upon night's lovers
Dark nooks surprised by harsh sunlight
Soon startle to their morning manners
The dawn speeds swift upon night's lovers
Their sweetness, daybreak swallows not
Last kisses linger, liquid, long together...
The dawn speeds swift upon night's lovers
Dark nooks surprised by harsh sunlight
Categories:
speeds, kiss, love, night, sun,
Form: Triolet
Enjoy the time we had together as time runs out at different speeds,
For each of us the path is drawn yet neither knows where it leads.
A decision made on left or right is something that was had,
While yours was good and filled with joy, mine just made me sad.
The thought of choice is one big joke as time comes to a close,
My mind is gone and dark I see for soon I will decompose.
Categories:
speeds, deep, depression, life,
Form: ABC
Yesterday's hottest news
is today's biggest snooze
The latest thing today
~ by tomorrow is passe
The world goes round and round
Innovation speeds up, not down
By the time you read this poem
~ Zuckerberg? Who's he? You know 'im?
Categories:
speeds, future, society, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Old brown leaves from last fall, spread down the wooded hillside
Soon to be covered with new colorful leaves this year
I passed a tree already turning a bright color of red
I suppose it won’t be long now, before the rest follow
The blanket of green fern are standing tall beneath the pines
The sun fleets in and out of the large passing clouds
Some gray ones lurk above, wanting to bring more rain
But, the ground is already wet, soaked from earlier times
That flattened leaves, and turned the colors in the trees
--- As summer speeds by ---
Heidi Sands
8/20/17
Categories:
speeds, autumn, color, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
OUR LIFE SPEEDS BY ME
Our life speeds by me
I hear the sound near me
Looking as I hoping to see
Are you still apart of me
Our life speeds by me
Once again am I free
Am I free, am I free,
Getting closer to my destiny
From you the touch is gone
Yet, I’m still hungry and strong
Wanting deep inside to belong
My heart became a pumping beat
As the air feels my lungs streams
I flow more with the wind into you again
But, now as a friend, holding on till the end
Our children need us now
Closing tightly as they learn how
Keeping our souls together with A prow
Do we know what to do, tell me how
We had a head start
Then we fall apart
Now where is our hearts
With our children smarts
Still falling apart and getting older
Who’s colder
Our life speeds by me
In our kids ??s
Once again I’m I free
Our life speeds by me
You will never let me be
But our kids will soon set me free
From you, from you, it always come back to me
Let’s take care of our children leave me be
I’m free, I’m free, can I be me
By: Shawn Jones, May 27, 2009
To: Randy Jones
Categories:
speeds, happinesschildren, life, me, children,
Form: Light Verse
As we travel at the speed of sound
searching for something profound
our soul unbound and love is unfound
it is a miracle that we are still around
the speed of love too slow to measure
pastimes and guilty pleasures
we walk at the speed of life through the fire
we hope,dream,and desire
we all are moving forward at one speed at a time
we move fast, slow, or sometimes not at all, but we all move
Categories:
speeds, people, love,
Form: I do not know?