A Winter's Day in Williamstown
A cold wind has the breath
of Antarctica coming up
from the south. Snow is falling
in the Alps. Small boats
huddle in the sheltered corners
of the Bay as I make my way
towards the foreshore
and the spray swept pier.
In the far distance, gulls wheel
inside a shaft of sunlight
gathering gold on joyous wings.
Suddenly, something leaps up
from out of...
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Categories:
joy, wind, winter,
Form: Free verse
Swing Swung by Wily Windwe
met for
no reason
in lonely park
where we happened to
be, both there at the same,
time for no real reason,
just an accident really,
that happenstance yen-ed to sublime.
we both heard the empty swing grind a creak
as wind swung it to and fro, to and fro,
we spoke gently about the pathos
of the scene, swing parked empty,
echoing the joyous laughs
of kids...
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Categories:
wind, joy, love, magic,
Form: Etheree
Hard Rain Blowing in the Wind - A Travelling Manwho can get high in hibbing
but then a song's gotta be sung
when a robert takes no ribbing
as he finds his hearts tongue
he's no icon, just a travelling man
a being lucky on cloud nine
found a way to be his best fan
looking back surely he'll feel fine
woody had a message to sing
something that needed to be heard
instead...
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Categories:
wind, star, tribute,
Form: Lyric
Wind SongWailing wind soft hard and loose
Indigo sins blown away by you
Not everyone listens to your truth
Denim days are made forever blue
Soulful song sounds silvery sonnet
Onyx town with a curse on it
Neon prayers clash with Easter bonnet
Graveyard laugh as heart is haunted...
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Categories:
wind, poetry,
Form: Acrostic
The Wind and the Trees ChatThe wind and the trees made an awful sound.
One moved fast, and one stood his ground.
The tree had enough of that gale and his mouth.
That bluster blew by and went South....
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Categories:
tree, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Kansas WindThe wind is readying himself for meadow and forest war
My trees are touching their roots
Robin nest is on the ground
Squirrels are scrambling
Wrens, sparrows and cardinals issue warning tweets and whistles
Urging us to take shelter before wind explodes with rage
Humans go to basements during tornadoes
Do birds fly off? Hide under moss or violets?
Frantic sounding tweets and...
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Categories:
wind,
Form: Free verse
Singing a Song in Honor of the WindMelody of the west wind
Wafts into the courtyard
Tickling the fresh buds of an apple tree
I am enthralled, excited, enthused
Singing commences
A ditty I make up in honor of wind
An appreciative cloud gives me a nod
I feel validated
Oak tree scoffs
He is not as easily won over as wind or cloud
Matters not, I continue singing the wind song
Feeling...
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Categories:
wind,
Form: Free verse
Natures Pride - Choose a Line 3"Lingering leaves of gold frolic / frolicked in the autumn wind"
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A crisp chill in the air, not being warmed by the sun.
I hear rustling, a sure sign that autumn has begun.
"Lingering leaves of gold frolic / frolicked in the autumn wind"
My love of Autumn and its gold leaves will never...
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Categories:
autumn, wind,
Form: Rhyme
BLACK WIND MoVeMeNt-Where? Are the colors night?
Taste the rived winds black
Lack of colors attract
Black has no movement bright
Movement has no depth
Black has no tear ducts can’t weep
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Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
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Categories:
wind, adventure, analogy, confusion, corruption,
Form: Sedoka
Elemental rebellionOne of our only protectors
The sun burns their skins
With the reminder of their sins
The sun kisses our skin
Gifting it with affection
The wind echoes with our ancestors stories
A silent act of justice
A way to honour black history
To haunt the guilty
The wind lifts our heads up
To remind us
That they can't break us
And that...
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Categories:
wind, earth, grave, history, race,
Form: Free verse
AirWhoosh, the wind through olive trees,
tugs my dress with gentle ease.
It brushes neck like whispered breath,
soft and quiet, light as rest.
Flit-flit, white butterflies fly,
soft as ash, then say goodbye.
Chirp-trill, birds sing wild above,
messy songs full of love.
Buzz of heat on sun-warm skin,
wind curls slow around my shin.
Agolli spoke of roots and rain,
but I was born...
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Categories:
wind, animal, muse, mystery, onomatopoeia,
Form: Rhyme
Lingering leaves of gold frolic in the autumn wind
"Lingering leaves of gold
frolic in the autumn wind,"
Swept up by bygone breezes,
already collapsing
before they begin,
As disillusionment clouds an overtired soul—
Misplaced and irretrievable
To a society that ravenously
disembowels empathy,
Twists and mangles trust
until it becomes unrecognizably disfigured,
Leaving the carcass to be plucked by bone-thin vultures,
Fed by culture’s apathetic, parasitic narcissism,
Under the boiling, pre-winter sun.
...
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Categories:
wind, angst, autumn, imagery, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Under the sky that dissolves dogmas like the wind does sandUnder the sky that dissolves dogmas like the wind does sand,
A canopy of empathy unfolds like an ancient tapestry,
Embroidered with clarity and illuminated by pure integrity,
Entangled in the fine threads of unknown transcendence.
I listen as celestial conversations sing in honey and cinnamon,
Flowing through the veins of silence like a river of perfect rhymes,
While butterflies, with...
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Categories:
wind, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Blowing a helluva Hooley
Rarely not windy
In the far flung
Squarely unfairly unsung
Seriously deliriously magical
Mystical..mythical Catlins
Rather adept at being
Scarily palaver kept..
Wild & warily windswept
Gusts crept not
Slowing then leapt
Boom & bust thrust lust
Not caring us despairing
Sussed trussed trees cussed
Unruly unjust showing growing
Glaring..nonplussed
Haring..not fussed
Duly well &
Truly cruelly blowing
A helluva Hooley
Mean flurry of almost obscene
Breeze seems in no...
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Categories:
nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Wintry World
In the gathering gloom
of a winter's afternoon
as the light leaches
from the room
I'm more prone or inclined
as comforts tug
to recline supine
beside the hearth
here on the rug
with a good book
than step outdoors
as if you would take a look
outside the window
should you care
it's more than slightly
chilly out there
with snowflakes
blowing in the air
better on the floor I think
with a...
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Categories:
books, fire, fun, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Wind Poems
Definition | What is Wind in Poetry?
Poems Related to Wind
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