Poetry

Poems by Wayne Visser

571 poems in eight collections

Change the World

Poems for positive action — inspiration for those striving to change the world for the better.

Alive2017
Nature Knows2017
A Dream to Be Painted2018
Change the World2018
Children at a Funeral2018
In the Game2018
Next2018
Spirit of the Mountain2018
Acting Now2019
Be an Optimist2019
Complexity2019
Earth Affirmation2019
Earth Spirit2019
Giving up2019
Ideas2019
It Matters2019
Nature’s Embrace2019
Patient Dreams2019
The Elements2019
The Valley of Doubt2019
To Lead2019
Tree Braille2019
Yes!2019
Your Mission2019
Futures Bright2020
Garden Wisei2020
In the Mind2020
Leap of Faithy2020
Regenerationt2020
A Better Place2021
A Place to Thrive2021
A Swirling Story2021
Because I Care2021
Connected2021
It’s Time2021
Only Now2021
Slow Time2021
Think on Business2021
Thriving2021
Through Your Eyes2021
Call to Adventure2022
Change the World – Part 22022
Enigma2022
Healers of the Earth2022
If2022
Nature Speaks2022
Never Too Late2022
On the Brink2022
The Race of Our Lives2022
The Stoic2022
A Butterfly Appeared2023
And We Grow2023
I Like to Move It2023
Let It Begin2023
P.s.2023
Radical Activist2023
Right Action, Right Mind2023
The Great Outdoors2023
Travel Far2023
We Have Earth2023

Keys to the Maze

Poems for purposeful living — meaning-making for those navigating the labyrinth of life.

Explore1988
Perspective1988
Island1990
Mecca1992
Diggers and Dreamers1997
Remember the Forest1997
The Circle Is Drawn1997
Your Spirit Is Light1999
Scientist, Artist, Businessman2001
Voyeurs of Terror2001
Innocent Words2003
Paralysed2003
Possession2003
Power-suit2003
Tinkerbelle2003
A Moment's Silence Please2004
Iambic Pentameter2005
The Vision of You2005
Exquisite Pain2006
Faith: in Memoriam2006
Africa Calls to Me (version 2)2007
Look After Your Heart2007
That Scary Hairy Man2007
A Hundred Questions2009
Haiku 42009
Haiku 52009
We Never Kissed2009
Futuristic Man2010
Forty-six2016
Keys to the Maze2016
Magic Feather2016
What Now? (the Unpopular Vote)2016
Forty-seven2017
Lost Key2017
Mountain View2017
Crook O’lune2018
Forty-eight2018
Graduation2018
Life Goes on2018
Memory Stones2018
Fleeting2019
Forty-nine2019
Home2019
African Flame2020
All the Colours2020
Fifty2020
Spirited Away2020
The Things We’ve Been Through2020
This Is the Place2020
A Poem2021
All in2021
Fifty-one2021
In the Margins2021
New Day2021
Against the Odds2022
Fifty-two2022
I Miss You2022
Not What You See2022
Sculpted Life, Crafted Love2022
Fifty-three2023
Moon Whisper2023
Rise in the Darkness2023
The Earth Turns2023
This Is the Way2023
An Iridescent Call2024
Better With You2024
Book of Magic2024
Fairytales2024
Footnotes2024
If You Believe2024
Into the Deep2024
Rewilding2024
Scroll on2024
Stepping up2024
Take Me to Your Leader2024
The Book of Changes2024
The Call of the Wild2024
The Soundtrack of Our Lives2024
Unwaveringly Uncertain2024
Waves and Cranes2024

Life in Transit

Travel and tribute poems paying homage to remarkable people, places and journeys.

Love the Landscape of Your Life1996
A Place to Bury Your Heart2000
Gran2001
I See You Clearly2001
Good to Say Goodbye2002
Nexus2002
The Highwaymen2002
Empty Spaces2003
Love and Blessings2003
Stranger2003
Eternal City (r2004
Thirty-four2004
Transatlantic Pilgrims2004
Birthday Train2005
Live 8 Rap2005
Thirty-five2005
Tide of White2005
Birthday Truck2006
Blurred Vision2006
Grief2006
Tell Me Your Story2006
Thirty-six2006
Dream-shaper2007
Gone Too Soon2007
Life in Transit2007
Shining2007
Thirty-seven2007
A Promise of New Worlds2008
A Tale of Two Cities2008
Cove of the Caspian2008
Lasso Poet2008
Renaissance Man2008
The Dragon and the Phoenix2008
Thirty-eight2008
Thirty-nine2009
This Day2009
Forty2010
Marie’s Poem2010
Poem for New Year2010
The Barefoot Don2010
Forty-one2011
Genesis Islands2011
Forty-two2012
I Wish She’d Stayed2012
Loss2012
The End2012
Babies Bounce2013
Forty-three2013
Gorky Park2013
He Lived Among Us2013
‘tis the Season2014
Forty-four2014
Fractal Faces2014
Generation Found2014
Land of Emerald Dreams2014
Roots in the Skies2014
We Rise, We Shine (t2014
Cherry Hinton Days2015
Forty-five2015
My Father’s Son2015
The Migrant’s Lament2016

Icarus

Love poems tracing the agony and ecstasy of love, from first blush to full bloom.

Dove on the Wind1988
Footprints1988
I Love You Mom1988
Mystery1988
Only Love1988
Reach Out and Touch1988
Step Into My Parlour1988
Loving Thoughts1990
Dad, We Love You1993
Kindred Spirits1994
The Joining of Hands1998
Christmas Wish2003
Hunny-bear2003
Jealousy2003
Cradled by Love2004
Facets2004
Genie Out the Bottle2004
Letting Go2004
Love Floats2004
Princess2004
Restless Nights2004
Truth or Dare2004
Wild, Beautiful and Free2004
Adultery2005
All I Ever Wanted2005
Battle-days2005
Comet Sonnet2005
Finally Over2005
Here2005
Hope2005
If You Love Her2005
Love-shapes2005
Sad and Blue2005
She’ll Never Know2005
Two Weeks2005
Afterglow2006
Don’t Tell Me That You Love Me2006
Lingerie Lament2006
Love Letter2006
A Love That Could Last2007
Almost Strangers2007
Autumn Kisses2007
Broken Dreams2007
Chocolate Seduction2007
Enchanted2007
Flibbawookie2007
Florentine Nights2007
Fly to Love2007
Galaxies Cartwheeling2007
I Hear You2007
Icarus2007
Island Dreams2007
Ivy Love2007
Just Imagine2007
Listen As She Hums2007
Not Forgotten2007
Perfect Day2007
Perfume2007
Sky Dream2007
The Dream of You2007
The Web2007
Turkish Coffee Kisses2007
Valentine2007
Caterpillar Kisses2008
Happy to See You2008
My Secret2008
Rainbow Mists2008
Scattered Leaves2008
Talk to Me!2008
The End (this Time)2008
Dance Me2009
Desert Love2009
Dressing Gown2009
Gentle on My Mind2009
Gifts2009
Subway Angel2009
Unspoken Words2009
I Lie Awake2010
Kismet2010
Moment of Truth2010
Resonance2010
The Web of Love2010
Wild Love2010
Ambivalence2011
Villanelle for Justice2011
Hard to Say2012
Through It All2012
Je T’adore2013
Say “i Do!”2013
Shooting Star2013
With This Ring2014
Love Is …2015
My Letters2016

String, Donuts, Bubbles and Me

Philosophical poems musing on space, angels, destiny, time, science and meaning.

All Seems1988
Awake1988
Ever?1988
Life's Dream1988
Un-doing1988
Quest Divine1989
Wheel of Life1989
Presence1990
Like Children1992
Song of the Stars1997
The High Wire1998
Spellbound1999
Y2k1999
Flame of the Spirit2000
Tree of Life2000
Infusion2001
Musings on Morphic Time2001
Caravan of Hope2002
Real Magic2002
New Beginnings2003
Synchronicity2003
Wish Upon a Star2003
An Extra Ordinary Day2004
Ghosts2004
Ground Rules2004
Private Lives2004
Riddle 12004
Riddle 22004
Sometimes2004
To Live Is to Have Tried2004
Words2004
Abbr.2005
Angels2005
Bridges2005
Cry2005
Deep Thoughts2005
Heaven2005
I Wish2005
Invocation2005
Mirror, Mirror2005
Names2005
Sad Day2005
Sleepless Nights2005
Space2005
T*b*l*f2005
Vortex2005
Bits and Pieces2006
Friends2006
Invisible2006
Lived Life True2006
Lost and Found2006
This Is My Life2006
Though You Are Gone2006
Time Takes Its Toll2006
Wheel-trap2006
Wrapped in Words2006
Complicated2007
Confusion2007
Friends Are Like Mirrors2007
I Walk the Line2007
Illusions2007
Scattered Books2007
Stone in My Shoe2007
Life Scribes2008
String, Donuts, Bubbles and Me2008
Under-rated Pleasures2008
Castles2009
One True Light2009
Possibility2009
We Could2009
Casino Life2010
No War!2010
Wheel of Fate2010
All the Clocks2011
Secret of Success2011
What Dreams May Come2011
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow2011
Cracked Pavements2012
Poised2012
She: Light, He: Dark2012
The Edge2012
Message in a Bottle2013
What Lies Beneath2015

Seize the Day

Inspirational poems taking us through the peaks and troughs of life.

Never1988
One of a Kind1989
A New Light Is Born1991
The Candle That Burns1991
To Live Is to Create1991
Kingdom of Magic1992
Dreaming of My Muse1994
Threads of Culture1996
A Splash of Colour1999
Rainbow Beads2000
Vukani!2000
Peek-a-boo2001
Seed of Thought2001
Wings2002
Poets Must Be2003
Sweet Seduction2004
That Big Thing2004
The Artist’s Gift2004
Born to Fly2005
Darkness and Light2005
Far Away2005
Feather Signs2005
Golden Thread2005
Linger Longer2005
New Boots2005
Promise Me2005
Sanctuary2005
Fragments2006
Horrendus Camena2006
I Still Believe in Us2006
Rivers Run Deep2006
Seize the Day2006
The Bookshop (not Today)2006
Walk on2006
Who Lives There?2006
A Good Book2007
Be My Kite2007
Book of Lovers2007
Brush Strokes2007
Crd (chronic Rhyme Disease)2007
Feeling Small2007
Let Them2007
Look Up!2007
One Mad Moment2007
Pictures and Words2007
The Abyss2007
The Tunnel2007
Walking in the Air2007
What If2007
Book Lovers2008
Catch Me If You Can2008
Happy Days2008
Free Falling2009
Life in Pieces2009
Twinkering (vb, Pr P)2009
Animated Life2011
Bee-lieve2011
I Want to Be a Writer2011
No-doo-bee Days2011
Step Out2011
Stripped2011
The Writer2011
To My Muse2011
Treasure Hunt2011
Wasted Days2011
Chasing the Blue2012
Feel2012
Box Life2013
Escape2013
This Is Your Time2013
You and Me, Here and Now2013
Making Ripples2014
Setting Oil, Rising Sol2014
Mind-seeds2015
Success2015
The Urgency of Now2015
Wordspell2015
Revolution2016

Wishing Leaves

Nature poems celebrating the diversity, beauty and ever-changing moods of our planet.

The Spirit of Nature1995
Garden of Hope1998
The Giant White Hand1998
When the Lilies Bloom2000
Great Fathers of the Forest2001
Fire Flood2002
Shapeshifting2002
Daffodil2003
Penguin Dream2003
Blue Skies2004
Caged2004
Kaleidoscope2004
Lily of the Valley2004
Unwanted Gift2004
Zen Garden2004
A Bug’s Life2005
Changing Light2005
Come Rain Come2005
First Snow2005
Garden Worlds2005
Gentle Storm2005
Little Flower2005
The Park2005
The River2005
Winter Song2005
Dandelion2006
Entwined2006
I Am Ocean2006
I Think I Was a Tree Once2006
I Wish I Was Lost2006
My Spring2006
Season of Loving2006
Storm2006
Thistle-puffs2006
A Future Worth Fighting for2007
Grey and Gold2007
Ideas of Winter2007
Only Natural2007
Skylight2007
Sliver of the Moon2007
Summer Sunshine2007
Fog2008
How the Mighty Have Fallen2008
Trooping the Colour2008
Haiku 22009
Haiku 32009
Rain2009
Safe Place2009
Switch! (for Earth Hour)2009
The Harbour2009
Let Bells Ring Out2010
Oh, to Be a Cloud2010
Wishing Leaves2010
Monet’s Dream2011
Serenity2011
The Tree-keepers2011
Witness to a Kill2011
Misty Woods2012
Still Pond2012
Earth, Air, Fire, Water2013
Haiku: Beauty2013
Dawn2014
Earth Villanelle2014
Forest Invocation2015
The Environmentalist2016
The Waves2016
Stone Walls96 and 08

I Am An African

Africa poems celebrating the luminous continent and its rainbow people.

Canyon of Mirrors2000
Where the World Once Began (egypt)2001
If These Stones Could Whisper2002
Ode to the Elephant2002
Sangoma in Our Closet2002
A Dragon’s Tale2004
Baobab2004
Separation2004
Ancestral Streams2005
Cave of the Gods2005
First People2005
From Whence We Come2005
Gathering the Past2005
I Am an African2005
Little Foot2005
Lost City of Gold2005
Swahili Spice2005
Africa’s Pride2006
I Know a Place in Africa2006
Africa Calls to Me (version 1)2007
African Odyssey (botswana)2007
African Pace2007
Place of the Skull2007
African Vine2008
Colours in the Dust2008
God Bless Africa2008
I Weep for Africa2008
Mandela and De Klerk2008
Music of Africa2008
Prayer for Africa2008
Sahara2009
Women of Africa2009
African Dream2010
Lagos Lives2011
Shine, Africa, Shine!2011
African Idea2012
African Time2012
Genesis2012
We Africans2012
Wild Africa2012
Africa Proud2013
Free Us to Be Free2013
Africa’s Big Five2014
African Pilgrimage2014
Child of Africa2014
Island of Africa2014
Renaissance2014
Africa Untamed2015
Land of the Sun2015