Swooshing Poems

Premium MemberSilver Slippers

...Silver slippers sliding off her feet, sparkling heels,
Suspended beat of the air, the feel of surrender
to the pumpkin skies, the rise of parting souls.

Bare feet, barely touching th...
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Categories: swooshing, fantasy, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse

The Silent Storm

...A silent storm is brewing within my chest
A benumbing chill sets my soul aflame
A warm welcome sets alarm bell ringing,
In the realm of hush at the dawn of dusk
do you hear the swooshing
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Categories: swooshing, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberJaws Just Turned Fifty

...The salty wind tans my face, smile
for miles of shoreline. My feet ecstatic
to dip and go into the ebb and flow.
I didn’t know it then, how time flies;
so glad, so free, so liberating. Just
a ch...
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Categories: swooshing, age, childhood, sea,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStardust On Autumn Leaves

...Tantalizing season steps in humming
Delightful songs - soar cerise, tangerine,
Crimson, red leaves - floating, fluttering
Swooshing, spreading light…. Stardust
Sprinkled from the misty clouds abo...
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Categories: swooshing, autumn, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMoonstone Melodies

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            A translucent bluish-white mineral with a mysterious sheen


I hear them rustling behind heaven's plisse,
fabric seersucker curtains, opaque but unlaced 
One breath and suddenly 
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Categories: swooshing, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse


The Alabaster Jar

...The Alabaster Jar 
Being
Manifested by all the universe
Accepting the gift of love
Tiny steps, holding a blue alabaster jar
with promises, love, peace, joy, and togetherness.

Spring
The cold...
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Categories: swooshing, anxiety, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWalk With Me

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Soundless words, pierce, then flow
Like the wind, whose story God wrote
Restless dreams whisper their glow

Joy stirs the music, the songs who know
He restores souls with His gen...
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Categories: swooshing, beautiful, giving, inspiration, light,
Form: Villanelle

Premium MemberThe Whispers of Autumn

...Summer departs tiptoeing, steps veiled Fall,
Tantalizing hint of golden sunshine,
Sigh sad rose bushes, shake branches trees tall, 
Decoupage of leaves, on maple and pine. 

Whimsical season com...
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Categories: swooshing, autumn, color,
Form: Sonnet

WATER DROP

...How long does a drop last?
An eternity or dry up fast?
Wiped away by a towel
Or drank away with a swallow

Just a little drop of wet 
Not in the ocean yet 
But when they meet
They splash and ...
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Categories: swooshing, age, beauty, fish, water,
Form: Rhyme

The Devils Prey

...The swooshing sound of the wind


Hollow and heavy it rings out


The rough and desolate call of the wild


The divination, dark spirit, and the demonic 


Circling the pure, sphere headi...
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Categories: swooshing, abuse, betrayal, conflict, fear,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Heart

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Written: February 19, 2024
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The dam, in which 
the tissue residue is present 
has a saline ecosystem
despite the dryness
It is st...
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Categories: swooshing, analogy, appreciation, emotions, heart,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWEDDING DAY HIKE

...Whence the time had come, for the winding road to shine,
(Orbiting in circles
Jumping Hurdles
Cyclonic sparkles)
Like a diamonté sun, caught in the clearing of vertiginous fog,

The br...
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Categories: swooshing, animal, humor, wedding,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberFall Splendour

...Summer's excitement over, veiled Fall tiptoes softly
tantalizing, with aroma of golden sunshine,
decoupage of leaves - cerise, tangerine, crimson-red
a riot of colours on bountiful maple and playf...
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Categories: swooshing, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLeaves Dream

...see dreams of my zestful youth in soaring, swirling, swooshing, floating leaves

                                     beauty in decay 
                        leaves drift around, leaves flutter 
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Categories: swooshing, autumn, dream,
Form: Other

Premium MemberWind

...to mark the edge of spring
to tilt strawmen 'gainst their will
late April wind shuffles new leaves like a deck of cards
a simple trick
nature in its gliding

the willow rustling
pushed by the ...
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Categories: swooshing, april, environment, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse

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