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Upswept Poems - Poems about Upswept

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - English translations by Michael R Burch II

...The Fisher
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
translation by Michael R. Burch

The river swirled and rippled;
nearby an angler lay,
and watched his lure with a careless eye,
like any other day.
Bu...

Categories: upswept, dream, moon, river, song,
Form: Rhyme

The Same Window

...She sinks into her threadbare cushion
on the aged-old rocker she huddles in daily
placing her thin-skinned arms
cold to the touch upon the arm rail
darkened from the oil of her skin

Creaks and...

Categories: upswept, age, confusion, depression, fate,
Form: Free verse

I Was a Teenage Shakespeare - With Apologies To Michael Landon

...I wore my leather jacket for the midnight crawl;
Howled a sonnet at the rising moon.
In a comedy of errors, let the engine stall;
Told my baby she’d be rescued soon.

I’m gonna rock like Romeo; ...

Categories: upswept, film, literature,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Wept

...
she roams cross the land her heart so bitter blue
leaving behind frosty morning dew
icy veil sadly unkept
laden woe upswept
she speechless
wept
left dreamless
numb regret windswept
...

Categories: upswept, grief, howl, hurt, solitude,
Form: Rhyme

Her Poison

...Lilies n’ roses of her vast plains
The soft caress of the sun’s rays
Briskly fondling her native torso
Frolickin’ kinky hairs of her loins
Her eyes, casements to nirvana
Gold n’ emeralds, glitte...

Categories: upswept, analogy,
Form: Verse

Breathe In Your Due

...Notes in play may have you dancing up the staircase, gay.
Exhaling breaths of fascination with sighs along the way.
A sharp and minor taking turns now tripping up the scale
as your embrace upon he...

Categories: upswept, dance, desire, destiny, magic,
Form: Quatrain

The Fairest of All the Roses

...The fairest of all the roses
in the walled garden’s afternoon hush,
this blossom delicately poses,
making the other blooms blush,

In the walled garden’s afternoon hush,
while standing en...

Categories: upswept, beauty,
Form: Pantoum

Father of the Bride

...All brides are lovely on their wedding day.
But she glows with her upswept auburn hair,
and her blue eyes sparkling under her veil.
He steps back and takes a mental snapshot.
He never wants to forget...

Categories: upswept, daughter, father, love, wedding,
Form: Narrative

Silver Strands

...Her dark hair, laced with silver strands,
cascaded once with sable glint,
then lost (with drifting of the sands
of time) the chasteness of its tint.

It still grows long, but she has kept
her d...

Categories: upswept, dark, hair, sad, silver,
Form: Quatern

Sweet Chicane Journey

...The curvature of her body   The sculpting of her mind
A chicane       With an Edge
Purposed to find

This river twisted they failed to quest
For the flow of an essence, a river bed carved
Its o...

Categories: upswept, introspection, loss, beauty, beauty,
Form: I do not know?

Slow Dancing

...truly balanced
winged fluidity  
upswept from curling wave
swirling to soar in savored grace 
on a cushion of descant airs
sung at a surfing pace
What hand could stroke
with wetted brush 
Thi...

Categories: upswept, music, nature,
Form: Free verse