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Windowsills Poems - Poems about Windowsills

Desolate Dynasty
...Encased in an isolated castle of an old fool’s paradise, A decaying dagger rests upon a distressed oak table. Frayed book pages scatter across termite-riddled floors. The calligraphy carries......

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Categories: windowsills, dark, fantasy, heartbroken, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Firestorm The 'Orange Glow'
...Scents of burnt embers flowing over my windowsills Charred are the palm tree fronds that once fanned the breeze Seized are the pods, timbers Torches sparking shrills Behold the......

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Categories: windowsills, anxiety, confusion, fear, fire,
Form: Rhyme



The Animals They Talk
...Venus Casts a tiny shadow Upon the ghostly snow From its candle held by an extended hand Of a cloaked man Who trips through the stripped trees Follows the fresh trail of reindeer To our seco......

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Categories: windowsills, animal, blessing, christmas, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Unfinished Archive
...In lacquered boxes, six feet down, Rest whispers of the unbought crown - The paintings left in mental drafts, The kindness stored away in crafts. Between the satin folds they place The morning......

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Categories: windowsills, poetry, time,
Form: Rhyme
Libraries
...I am a book Given to myself by my mother, given to herself by hers, and so on I am a name Given to me by my own pages turning past the last Wording on my skin, lifted with water and vinegar I am......

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Categories: windowsills, books, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse



My Voice Must Be Light As Air
...We talk small in big spaces Leaving the words around us empty helium balloons floating Wasn't my voice atmospheric It's disappearing into the clouds My muffled thoughts, my meaningless mumbling......

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Categories: windowsills, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fiery darts of Danny
...For I have eaten of manna I have witnessed the Holy Spirit I will not shall not flee in the face of Danny strange flesh messenger from hell a man and horse walking on hoofs wearing the buss......

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Categories: windowsills, allah,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Sipping on Poetry
... Perched in a leafy tree sipping on poetry eyes trained on rolling hills toggling ‘tween windowsills points of vantage as yet unimagined heretofore ne’er examined ......

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Categories: windowsills, analogy, drink, imagery, language,
Form: Couplet
Children's Poems X
...Children's Poems X These are poems for children and poems about children and their mothers, fathers, grandmother, grandfathers and extended families. Always by Michael R. Burch for Jer......

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Categories: windowsills, baseball, child, childhood, children,
Form: Rhyme
Blackout
...Blackout I sit in a blackout What can I do Wind is a howling The rain's angry too Windowsills rattle High up on my floor I live on the seventh And hear every roar I'm starting to fi......

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Categories: windowsills, dark, introspection, light,
Form: Rhyme
My Horse Alberta
...Alberta has pulled me many miles, her hoofs are placed one after another, But on this night of Christmas Eve, She pills a load of hay behind her. So many young smiles with laughter, Candles flic......

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Categories: windowsills, horse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cold In Them Thar Hills
...This week, snow is expected in the hills A bitter cold Halloween like I remember Thinking about it gives me the chills Mostly the looming winter heating bills It’s time to caulk up th......

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Categories: windowsills, mountains, snow, weather, winter,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member A Shower of Flowers
...Tulips fronting daffodils Azaleas in pots on windowsills Rows of rainbow chrysanthemums Mingle with orange geraniums Bright pink peonies ready to pop A bird of paradise sits on top ......

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Categories: windowsills, color, flower,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Cats
...curious little humans attacking flies in mid air tapping the air with tiny paws sitting on windowsills watching birds......

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Categories: windowsills, animal,
Form: Free verse
Silence of Falling Snow
...I welcome the silence of falling snow the virginity of pure crystalline flakes gathering to frost my windowsills But I watch while snuggled beside a fire a cup of cocoa and soft rock pl......

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Categories: windowsills, winter,
Form: Free verse

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