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Windward Poems - Poems about Windward


Premium Member Windward
The wind is an agent of change so I face it head on and welcome its cold embrace its cleansing properties its whirling breath that chafes my skin and chills my core and I ask it to change me and it always obliges....

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Categories: windward, change, inspirational, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Run a Windward Spray
Chase the breakers out of the harbour before the customs boat appears. Strike the sails and tack to larboard then comes the old familiar fear. Will they run us, or will they gun us? Damn these sails, catch the wind. Spume and foam roll and spin us, forgive us Lord for we have sinned. Packed to the gunwales with contraband trying to make...

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Categories: windward, sea,
Form: Rhyme



Windward Blown
Categories: windward, image, love, metaphor, sky,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Gazing Windward On a Summer's Evening
Gazing Windward on a summer’s evening Loch David Crane 1981 Whose waves these are, I think I know: his home is in the sea below. He will not see me stopping here to watch the whitecaps come and go. Enlisted sailors think me weird -- civilian with no duty near— they stop to wonder, one...

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Categories: windward, adventure, boat, depression, heartbroken,
Form: Ballad
Windward Song
When the clouds Become untied and divided Sometimes, colliding together Tumbling upside down or, They are knocking each other around.... I know that's you up there Guiding me, humbly along So I am reminded again To be strong and push aside My longing and fear I can hear you mumbling " Hey brush aside them...

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Categories: windward, daughter, dedication, devotion, family,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Windward Dreams
I hear thou whisper through the trees and thy breath upon my cheek is flowing warmth, sweet gentle breeze as in thy course thou search and seek. Thy forces grow within thy dance and raise the volume of thy song. If not for earthly circumstance I'd grasp thy tail and...

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Categories: windward, fantasy, imagination, nature
Form: Sonnet

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