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Woodsmoke Poems - Poems about Woodsmoke

Premium MemberWoodsmoke, Laughter, and Warmth

...Woodsmoke, Laughter, and Warmth

Sunlight slanting through pines,
the creak's cold whisper,
a child's echo of laughter.
Bare feet on smooth stones, slick with moss.
Ankle-deep in melted snow, a...
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Categories: woodsmoke, beautiful, environment,
Form: Free verse

A breathless house wheezes

...Contest: Breathless
Sponsor: Constance La France
Written: 24/05/2025

Quote "To breathe is to live, and without breath, there is no life." — Lailah Gifty Akita

A breathless house wheezes

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Categories: woodsmoke, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberComing Back

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Thoughts keep coming back
of late afternoons
with the dark wings
of currawongs weaving
pathways through the high 
branches leaving long threads 
of song draped across trees -
the drifting ...
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Categories: woodsmoke, memory, time, winter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWoodsmoke in the Wind

...My long-lost winter is here
Even if it has not snowed,
For by and by, woodsmoke is near
Drifting slow across the road

A most distinctive scent
It carries to the nose,
Up, up a chimney vent
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Categories: woodsmoke, appreciation, december, february, fire,
Form: Rhyme

October’s Child

...Born in the breath of woodsmoke and fire,
I learned early to love the art of falling.
Leaves tumble like poorly kept secrets,
trees strip down without shame -
modesty’s for summer, after all.

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Categories: woodsmoke, autumn, birthday, emotions, halloween,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWhispers of Autumn

...When  butterflies float downward like a leaf
As air of Autumn dances everywhere
Whispers of wings become a bright motif
Floating, drifting, wandering on blue air.

Scents of cinnamon whisper tre...
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Categories: woodsmoke, appreciation, autumn, butterfly, seasons,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberOde to Tofitian Rain

...Ode to Tofitian Rain


What is in Tofino rain
that makes it smell so sweet?
A blend of berries, a certain strain
of sea salt, fog and peat

it smells of woodsmoke, tangy fir
and kelp washed ...
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Categories: woodsmoke, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Peace In the Nowhere

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"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant ...
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Categories: woodsmoke, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAutumnal

..."A melody whispers through the trees in the Autumnal season.
A colorful song, a sing along, and nature's beauty is the reason."
                                                                ~ by ...
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Categories: woodsmoke, autumn, seasons,
Form: Rhyme

When I Think About You

...When I think about you, 

I can see the sun streaming through the trees as we lay underneath them, 
staring up and the blue and white and endless of it all. 
I smell woodsmoke and summer breezes ...
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Categories: woodsmoke, crush, cute, for her,
Form: Free verse

A Real Cowboy

...I always wanted to be a real cowboy.
A Buck-a-rue with scars on my cheeks and worn boots,
I wanted my spurs to jingle and my saddle to creak and
 deep lines and sun burned skin decorating my face,...
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Categories: woodsmoke, black african american, career,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPeaceful Dawn

...Last night's grief was filled with a serene dawn.
Woodsmoke and scalded spices flood the air.
The darkened sunlight disclaims treads the lawn.
Last night's grief was filled with a sere...
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Categories: woodsmoke, analogy, appreciation, dream,
Form: Triolet

Bonfire

...on a cold clear night
they huddle close together with 
    scorched fronts and icy backs  
eyes reflecting the flames in ruddy faces 
    woodsmoke permeating hair and clothes
fine grey ash coat...
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Categories: woodsmoke, autumn,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIs It Autumn

...Is it autumn, when silence has come to a lonely lakeshore?
Throngs of reveling summer tourists are flocking here no more.

Is it autumn, the water's sitting still in the swimming pool?
The rowdy ...
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Categories: woodsmoke, autumn, change, farm, garden,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberIn the Stillness

...In the stillness lies unbroken
The fragile silence of the day
When a whispering, winter wind
Comes in to rest from play

In the silence of the wood
Lies the peace, so hard to find
Lost, then f...
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Categories: woodsmoke, nature, peace, snow, solitude,
Form: Quatrain

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