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Waning Poems - Poems about Waning

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Fukuda Chiyo-ni haiku translations 3
...Fukuda Chiyo-ni Haiku Fukuda Chiyo-ni was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period, also known as Kaga no Chiyo. Having seen the moon I can bid this planet farewell. —Chiyo-ni, loose tr......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, animal, dream, heart, humanity,
Form: Haiku



In the days that gradually thin, sprinkled with the last strands of sand
...In the days that gradually thin, sprinkled with the last strands of sand, Evening descends upon my old and warm soul, Bony and stiff fingers, yearning for the warmth of the waning summer, As the a......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Almighty God’s Son
...He visited Simon's mother-in-law, who had a fever. Did he do so because she was kin of his disciple? The elderly needed care. He knew this as a healer. Wasn't their psyche more than their physique......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Barbarossa II
...As Barbarossa roars into the East. its southern barb cut swiftly to the core. And as it raged the slaughtering increased, consuming any force that stood before. His swift barrage devoured the ran......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Barbarossa III
...A new command would counter their attack to stay the storm that harkens at your door. ‘Twould be a feat that stunned the iron pack for nothing dared defy the wolves before. And though his pack c......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Zephyr
...In the evening's ebbing twilight I sit beneath the arc of a tree's bending bough and wait for my love to appear on the hill atop the meadow Here in the calmness of the sunset I see a sky of l......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Dwarf Star
...The universe swallowed my thoughts In another instant of uncertainty Truthfulness and doubt together were something Morphed into a new creation of nothing As if my time itself were the black hol......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, age, emotions, identity, self,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Time to Reflect
...Quite far we have traversed, in pursuit of goals we chose, Through troubles and trepidations of seasons in throes; Sometimes reveling sunshine, sometime in glum of shadows, Always together~ on bar......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, introspection, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Daydream Drumbeat
...I was a bed and mattress tester, a dream job like that of a yellow moon. I tested the comfort of beds, pillows, etc., for night is ever coming soon. I studied sleep patterns too, like viv......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, beauty, day, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Crescent Moon
...Waning crescent moon rises Red sun rises adjacent Whip-poor-will's love affair short An arctic cold night ......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, love, nature,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member Cerulean Seclusion
...In blackness, I hear forked tongues whisper wicked witchery, hope within arthritic ink slowly f a d e s as darkness descends upon snow-speckled heart, and a murder of......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Babel
..."A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers." by Alexander Smith ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ War torn or more, torn asunder We all march ......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, heart, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
O desperate soul
...O' desperate soul, bereft of freedom's song, With fingertips bound by a turmoil's throng. Where hope is lost, as shadows creep and trill With dread and longing, beneath each waning hill. How can ......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Fading Ember
... A Fading Ember In shadows cast by waning light, A love once vivid, now takes flight. Our candle that once burned so bright, Now stings of a cold, harsh night. I see the d......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, dark, deep, hurt, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The End
... When I remember her, I think of hope she aroused, prayers she inspired, dreams she encouraged. When I think of her, and remember… it is my own heart who beats more tenderly ~ quote by......Read the rest...
Categories: waning, courage,
Form: Rhyme

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