Wafts Poems - Poems about Wafts

What She Left Remains

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A red wine stain stays
seared into the wooden grain —
the table keeps watch
how their laughter filled the room
last time they were together

Jellybeans loiter
on the shelf in cookie jar
I w...

Melati

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Sweet fragrance wafts through the air
But when I see Leony flower nothing can compare
Her beauty is captivating and her gunnen smile
        for her garden a Titan Arum, 
First I must tend an...

- By The Streetlamp -

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                               Those pancakes look delicious
                             Street food under the street lamp
                                 just right around the corner
      ...

Baking Bread

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I open the oven door
to a blast of heat 
and hot bread bulging
out of a high tin, brown, crusty
and ready to be taken out.
That smell wafts across 
seventy years to when I can
remember bread...

DEWFRESH MORN

...DEWFRESH MORN
Poem written for “Vibrations from a Verso” Poetry Contest, Nette Onclaud, sponsor, July 26, 2025
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birdsong, sw...

floridas electric chair

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they sit him down like a tired old man
in that throne of leather and iron—
old sparky, they called it,
like it was some friendly dog.

they strap the wrists, ankles, chest,
tight enough to st...

Those we Love

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Those we love don’t go away
They walk beside us every day
They’re in our heart and in our mind
With thoughts of the precious kind.

We see them in the stars above
We feel them in thei...

Summer Soft Rain at Night

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                                          Summer Soft Rain at Night

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Echoes of Eclipse Flame

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Written: July 17, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: X F Lacasse

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From the anvil of solar eclipse flame ~
Sunsmith struck with a mallet lit by li...

Summer Scents

...Each mote of dust that floats airborne
eddies on the light cool balmy breeze
ushered from wide open window
fragrancing the house with summer scents.

Eddies on the light cool balmy breeze,
posi...

restful retirement

...morning or evening
sun up or sunset
six am or pm
time does not matter
in a restful state
no clock in or clock out
no check in or check out

I open my windows
listen to bird speak
tweeting b...

Night Tears

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Skies sparkled with snow diamonds drifting through
the magic that surrounded the effervescent darkness.
The tulle breath of the forest spirited the moonglow 
in a spritely capricious demeanor an...

Tea Time

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Lure of sunset quiets the soul
Mellowing hazed thoughts from day's work
Nothing but herbal tea clears mind
Oft not , caffeine- loaded Starbucks -
Peace wafts by brewing turmeric


Acebedaria...

First Cuppa in Morn, Steaming

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The air slowly fills
with curly pungent wafts of steam
billowing up from a 
hot freshly brewed cup of coffee.
Raising the baton to 
conduct the dawn chorus 
of bird songs and plans 
mulled t...

A Contemplation Upon Weeds

...Dewdrops kiss my skin
A silver coat over my shoulders, green
There's magic in every morning. 
In the atmosphere wafts perfumes of earths daughters
They sway their hips,
they nod their heads
pet...

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