Updraft Poems - Poems about Updraft

...It is a daunting task they ask of me, Brittle as I am, A lovely mustard color, Flitting in the autumn breeze, Like some Marilyn Monroe of leaves. They expect me to jump. The one's that haven'......Read the rest...

...In the nighttime hours As the world deftly creeps by I summon my powers Spread my wings and fly Past cotton clouds, Snow-capped mountains, white I am lost and I am found I am beauty and blight......Read the rest...

...Sometimes I think i should try, Should spread my wings and fly Soar through a cloud as a spirit so free With land below, all the sights I see Diving towards the earth below Spread my wings out ......Read the rest...

...Sometimes I think i should try, Should spread my wings and fly Soar through a cloud as a spirit so free With land below, all the sights I see Diving towards the earth below Spread my wings out ......Read the rest...

...hanging motionless scanning the buffet table …a feathered silence John G. Lawless ©3/6/2023......Read the rest...

...A cotton ball cloud drifting overhead Suddenly becomes a miniature poodle, Then dancing slowly, like a newlywed Becomes a pompom for Yankee Doodle. Disappearing like an aloof desert......Read the rest...

...Water rises in damp clouds above the falls Red from the old grist mill reflecting through The backlighting sunshine causing ethereal Rainbow-like patterns in the mistiness, while I wa......Read the rest...

...In a dismal old fashioned cell at our ancestral home, Wherein coconuts, new and old, heaped like a hillock dome; Kid-butterflies, we're often asked to pick some for curry, Finding phantom-forms we......Read the rest...

...I had a pair of the most beautiful wings, But I grew bored with flying And so I never used them, Never exercised them or Stretched them out to feel the Sun on my back, That warm glow that latel......Read the rest...

...Boisterous clouds are churning, roiling air-mass in warm updraft Declaring on callous inhabitants of earth, a dark ferocious war Manifesting malevolent force, imposing anger on spatial norms, Con......Read the rest...

...*Image of Shattered Time by dreamstime Broken Time Its hands went frozen a warm summer June, Bought it new when cool though it waned since then, Days were young and fresh loved e'......Read the rest...

...Feathers gather on the wing Sore with precision in their flight An updraft lifts the beady eyed visitor A hunt begins on hunger pangs of black Grows from the dawn of times survival Launched into......Read the rest...

...Ash, sparks drifting up, On the fire's updraft borne, Like souls go skyward......Read the rest...

...POETRY… Poetry – two sticks with which to interrogate a frog, hold up a cardboard box in quest of pigeon’s freedom. A petal-less flower weeping in an early frost, a squirrel hiding acorns he will......Read the rest...

...Once he ran, a younger man, now he hobbles Once he walked, cheerfully talked, now he wobbles Once he laughed, a breezy updraft, now he cries Once he hoped, with the future eloped, now he s......Read the rest...