FICKLE WINDSFICKLE WINDS
fickle winds of fate
blowing us like tumbleweeds
along life’s highways
...
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Categories:
12th grade, fate, wind,
Form: Senryu
Dark Steel DaySkies of gray
Skies of gloom
Storm clouds say
Bringing doom
Dark steel day
Blustering winds
Turmoil cloud
Sleeting sends
Hail stones loud
Dark steel day
Storm surrounds
Gale force wind
Beating down
Without end
Dark steel day
Icy air
Breath of steam
No despair
Just winter’s dream
Dark steel day
Storms they rise
Then they go
No surprise
If you know
Dark steel day
Dark steel days ahead and behind
Dark steel days on my mind
Dark steel days good and...
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Categories:
wind, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Howling WildernessHigh winds have come to a land remote and wild.
Oak leaves tremble in the black of night
While critters to the underbrush for the present are exiled.
Like a giant thrashing fiend, wind roars with all its might,
Increasing in intensity as if something got it very riled.
Not many birds will still remain where there is great height.
Gone...
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Categories:
wind,
Form: Acrostic
Where the Thorns Remember MeDate: June 17, 2025
I wandered through a bleeding dusk,
the wind forgot my name.
A rose was growing from the dust—
I reached, and it became
the fog that hums like swallowed screams.
My lungs forget to breathe.
I taste old blood beneath my tongue.
Each petal cuts me in my sleep—
what did I dare believe?
Each step I took was stitched with...
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Categories:
pain, rose, wind,
Form: Verse
Of Whispers and Winds
Winds whisper ‘Arrival' come Spring
Departure in November
January’s gusts inhabit every crack and crevice
Summer’s banners lie limp against their poles
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Categories:
seasons, silence, violence, wind,
Form: Free verse
Issa Translations IIThese are English translations of Issa haiku about the seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Autumn wind ...
She always wanted to pluck
the reddest roses
?Kobayashi Issa translation by Michael R. Burch
Issa wrote the haiku above after the death of his daughter Sato with the note: “Sato, girl, 35th day, at the grave.”
In this world where I was born
every...
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Categories:
wind, autumn, rose, spring, stars,
Form: Haiku
WHISPERS OF THE WINDWHISPERS ON THE WIND
fiery skies ablaze
sunset's final, fleeting glance
day's last, burning breath
whispers of the wind
through the trees, a gentle voice
a gentle goodnight
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Categories:
12th grade, tree, wind,
Form: Haiku
The case of lynching vs suicideThe case of lynching vs suicide
A black man
Hangs
Lifeless
Silent
Eerie
The only sound
Is the wind thrashing around
As it surrounds
The black man
Screaming loud
Trying to get the man to make a sound
The wind howled
In pain
In agony
Watching as the whole town
Laughing like he was some kind of clown
The police never showed
In the...
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Categories:
wind, political, prejudice, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Wind Of Chance
Wind Of Chance
The billowing wind
rendered alluring melodies
luring many men
thirsty for his fate
each beholding his cup
full of frothing lager
concealing the lethal dregs
making the jolly man
a hollow being
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Categories:
wind, adventure, longing,
Form: Light Verse
Claws in the Wind
Claws in the wind disturb the stream,
Two bears collide in shallow spray,
Their roars dissolve the morning dream.
Claws in the wind.
The water coils in streaks of gray,
Sharp fangs reflect the sun’s last gleam,
No trout remain, they dart away.
Each lunge breaks loose a river seam,
The rocks bear witness to the fray,
Then all is still as dusk draws...
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Categories:
wind, animal, nature, war,
Form: Roundel
The Mighty Quinn in the Highlands on Maggie's Farm in an Idiot WindThe Mighty Quinn in the Highlands on Maggie's Farm in an Idiot Wind
What He Didn't Say About Being Famous:
"Just Like The Rest, I Like My Sugar Sweet."
When Quinn The Inuit Gets Here,
We're All Gonna Hafta' Eat.
I "Feel Like A Prisoner In A World Of Mystery."
A Pretty...
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Categories:
wind, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
AfterlunchEveryday as I lie on my bed
Afterlunch, watching wind in the skies
I see clouds in their formless fled
Hastily waving goodbyes
The picture changes every second
It never repeats the same view
The light flashes in and I’m beckoned
I look to the west to see you
But nothing comes out to grant us
Dark clouds blur the light sky
Like the...
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Categories:
wind, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
plastic bags blowing in the windWhy do we see so many plastic bags blowing around and about?
A million such bags are made each minute, today I found out.
We use them to carry books, gardening tools, whistles and plastic stars.
Most of us use them daily, and they blow out the windows of our cars....
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Categories:
wind, life,
Form: Rhyme
Tossed on the Wide Seas“Life is like a ship tossed on the high sea
To journey amidst sunshine and wild waves.” - By author.
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Categories:
wind, boat, inspirational, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme
soft like the wind
Hi, Mom.
I hope you’re somewhere beautiful—
the way Dad always says you are.
I’m older now.
Not a baby anymore.
I wish I could remember your voice,
but I hear it
in his.
He still talks about you—
every night,
when he thinks I’m asleep.
He steps outside,
looks up at the sky,
and whispers.
Sometimes I hear him cry,
soft like the wind.
Sometimes I smile,
'cause I know you're...
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Categories:
wind, beautiful, courage, emotions, growing
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Wind Poems
Definition | What is Wind in Poetry?
Poems Related to Wind
gust, air, gale, breeze, cyclone, blast, blow, whisk, whiff, flutter, breath, flurry, draft, typhoon, puff, tempest, whirlwind, wafting, draught, zephyr, chinook, mistral, notice, intimation, hint