Get Your Premium Membership

Windfalls Poems - Poems about Windfalls

Premium Member ALCOHOL IS IN OUR GENES
...It would seem that our early ancestors Foraged afar to find the freshest fruit But sometimes they would have to eat windfalls That were covered with that white fungal fur Which made the wi......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, addiction, food, fruit,
Form: Blank verse
Senses
... Sunlight and shadows White clouds drifting by An old apple tree Birds of a feather Scavenging windfalls. Barefeet on grass Cool leather seat Glass table top Sun......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, bird, how i feel,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse



Crushed Apples
...The windfalls have been trod and gnawed upon. A sweet sludge of pith is spread across a ripe carpet of cider scented soil. Here in late autumn, an amber painted orchard is the heady mulch of......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Keeping It Real
...My Muse awoke me, I had been listening to a thunderstorm from my warm bedroom. She wanted me to write about the storm. The morning came fine and fair, she was still pressing me to talk about......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Apple Tree
...They’re cutting down my apple tree. Well, I say it was mine, even Though it was in a neighbor’s field. She never minded that we climbed In it, and we often did, Being such tomboys as we were! T......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, appreciation, childhood, feelings, memory,
Form: Free verse



Family Tree
...I am the surplus confusion of my mother, the left-overs of Uncle Tommy – sous chef and demon lover, the aftershave of my father, and his father before him. We are what we are, but of course ......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Ask Me
...I've never felt so safe as I do with you I can be myself, laugh my laugh Tell bad jokes, dress up, dress down Drink too much, laugh out loud Eat too much, cry in a crowd With you I'm free..free ......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, break up, divorce, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canary Collusion
...It was after Mom’s dad passed her mom bought canaries. Grams felt life less lonely, I think, with their singing, and gave her idea that flying the coop to live close to my mom could be Southland f......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, humor, political, race, ,
Form: Rhyme
Sipping Cider With My Sweetheart
...Cider only requires one straw— Sipping with my Sweetheart. Dreaming about apples— Some big (and) some small... Whispering windfalls upon a fallen time ground. Fields endless waves mo......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, art, conflict, creation, deep,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member For Old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam - a Name Like Shakespeare's For Some Other Giants - Part One
...For old Star-Gazer Master Khayyam – a name like Shakespeare’s for « some » other giants - Part One I Why don’t they ever come back? Even if it’s just to say ......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, philosophy, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
Plagiarists
...Plundering stuff to clone is obscene Leeching from others whose work they have seen Always alert for what comes their way Grabbing their windfalls by night and by day ......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, creation, writing,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Wind Songs
... Ribbed strands of wheat across the plain bend at the knees, to drink the rain in windfalls Brown from harvest, drought and blight, are cornstalks spinning through the night like w......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, earth, nature, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn Wind
...A litany of leaves tango to the tune of your chilly flow, so windblown. Moody clouds move silently by in a turbulent silver sky, as windfalls. Showing signs of your wrath, the trees, to wh......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, autumn, sea, tree, wind,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pie Eyed
...The trees have pumpkin-pied themselves they're dipped in orange butterscotch. The squirrel's nests of pick-up sticks hide acorns stores which plink-plop. Below the apple trees bowed branches m......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, food,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jimmy, El Nopalero
...Nopalero = one who deals with/sells nopales [edible prickly pear cactus leafs/pads] Aiiiii, Jimmy -- what shall we say, now that you've gone, worst fear realized: your body discovered, days la......

Continue reading...
Categories: windfalls, abuse, age, angst, cat,
Form: Free verse

Related Poems


Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry