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Updraft Poems - Poems about Updraft

Premium Member Dune Perdue
... Updraft lifts limbs, leaves scurry like mice exposed Mother Nature shakes shorebreak, incline imposed Gnaws at sand buried tree toes gnarled, spit polished Hourglass chamber sug......Read the rest...
Categories: updraft, animal, beach, bird, metaphor,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member skimming the updraft
...skimming the updraft a hawk soars past my head with playful ease......Read the rest...
Categories: updraft, flying, freedom, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Bird's Love Song Series I
... Eternal love is considerate, in its presence ~ gliders grace with elegance—Poet All true and deep love is a sacrifice—Carl Jung ......Read the rest...
Categories: updraft, bird, love, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Scarf
...Winter swirls on the morning mist Undulating clouds blowing west. Cobwebs clear with a forceful fist Winter swirls on the morning mist A snatch of red wool to untwist Caught in an updraft......Read the rest...
Categories: updraft, house, wind, winter,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member A Funny Time To Learn
...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...
Categories: updraft, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Between the Extremes - POTD
...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...
Categories: updraft, desire, flying, freedom, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Beautiful Sight
...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...
Categories: updraft, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Flying
...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...
Categories: updraft, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Updraft
...hanging motionless scanning the buffet table …a feathered silence John G. Lawless ©3/6/2023......Read the rest...
Categories: updraft, nature,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Cotton Ball Cloud
...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...
Categories: updraft, fantasy, sky,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member At the Old Grist Mill
...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...
Categories: updraft, places,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ghosts
...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...
Categories: updraft, body, evil, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Scattering the Ashes of a Dream
...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...
Categories: updraft, addiction, angst, dark, extended
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Atmospheric Inferno
...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...
Categories: updraft, nature, storm, weather,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Broken Time
...*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...
Categories: updraft, allegory, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet

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