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A Warm Lipped Westerly

...I am madly alive today,
one has to get mad not to be dead.

I wander out,
wending through myself
allowing the warm west wind
kiss the thin ice of a low mood.

Smiles light up my gladding bloo...

Categories: westerlies, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Tempest

...From the ice bound Southern Pole comes the north bound southerlies,
pushing wave after wave white horses, attacking rock and sand,
where billowing black clouds blanket one of the angry seas
that i...

Categories: westerlies, nature, storm,
Form: Rhyme

Deepest Blue

...It's warm, it's calm - there is a feeling of change
long before the evening shadows lengthen.
Even before the clouds have gathered,
the westerlies; they quietly rise then strengthen.

The stag t...

Categories: westerlies, weather,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

No Adjectives

...No Adjectives
  
No adjectives graced skies of dawn
No crimson, mauve or bronze
Only blankets of fog akin to gloom
Blocking sunlight, singing runes.

Winds on gusts rose up in westerlies
Brea...

Categories: westerlies, day, morning, weather, wind,
Form: Rhyme

O April

...O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life 
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered 
from the grasping earthen frost - 
the past season of fanged nor’easters ...

Categories: westerlies, appreciation, april, beauty, hope,
Form: Free verse

Autumn Awakes

...*Image of Indiana History by Giphy.
Autumn Awakes

Rustling ochre, crimson leaves all daylong,
A coolness settles, shorter days advanced,
Easterlies, westerlies, tradew...

Categories: westerlies, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Villanelle

Sweet Zephyrus - a Love Letter

...Oh Zephyrus, sweet Zephyrus,
westerlies' bouquet nectarous
lilac layered flirtations sail
wings whimsical whiff my skin pale
butterfly kisses generous..

music you breathe melodious
chorus of ...

Categories: westerlies, imagery, romance, wind,
Form: Rondeau

The Westerlies

...Lo here they come the Westerly's
On their lips a westward song, 
Alighting from Horse Latitudes
It's a land where they belong.

They bring along the scent of seas
And that forlorn desert bloom,...

Categories: westerlies, nature, wind, , western,
Form: Narrative

Winter Winds

...Racing boastful devil breaths  played tag in a sprint
   stretching through trees than swift and quick slapping
   dropped down low to touch and brush the wintering earth.
A coiled zephyr snaking ...

Categories: westerlies, angel, wind, winter,
Form: Narrative

Land Is a Loom

...Land Is A Loom
I sailed the fiord like inlets between Powell River and Drury Inlet.
The land itself  spoke from mountains, torents, islet
From bird song and bear splashing fishers
From rutting mo...

Categories: westerlies, adventure, environment, nature,
Form: Blank verse

Only If and If Only

...If only and only if i was the moon
I would be the fullest moon
Brightening up your darkest nights
If only and only if i was the wind
I would blow love your way non stop
Westerlies to the easterl...

Categories: westerlies, care,
Form: Free verse

A Duststorm

...the hot and dry westerlies 
with backing of the fiery sun
get confronted by the moist easterlies
backed up by force of nimbus clouds 
naturally, a storm is bound to occur
as two opposing forces ...

Categories: westerlies, storm,
Form: Free verse

For Danny

...When you're  whistling past the grave yard
on some sunny afternoon
and you don't know where you're going
but you're hoping you'll get there soon
I hope that you'll remember all the pirate ships w...

Categories: westerlies, father, son, hope,
Form: Rhyme