Best Bench Poems
Below are the all-time best Bench poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bench poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Park BenchThe Park Bench
I wish I was a poet
With magical words
To make people see all of the absurd
Tears fly, paintings in pastel die
When we look into...
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Categories:
bench, art, beauty, inspirational, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
When We Were RoyalsLeaning against the warmth of old oak,
I recall your sun burnt skin that summer.
As I let my fingers linger on the side of the...
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Categories:
bench, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
RegretWhy I did it, I don’t know
Tornado of regret tortures my heart
On a moonless night, he approached
Limping toward me as I pumped gas
Why was...
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Categories:
bench, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Ode To the RedwoodI was once a little twig with dreams of being a mighty tree
So people would come from all around just to look at me
As the...
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Categories:
bench, forgiveness, friendship, imagination, life,
Form:
Personification
Sweet Ghost ValentineAn old house I am led to -it is the symbol of
Memories in cobwebs - like those of old lost love.
A storehouse for so many...
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Categories:
bench, lost love, love, me,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
bench, life, sad,
Form:
Verse
Pleasures of ReadingIt pleasures me
That she reads me
Inside her serenity
Parked on our bench of antiquities
I, whom gazes over there at her,
Later in the dusk of candlelight
Shall remove...
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Categories:
bench, art, beauty, desire, image,
Form:
Free verse
The Solo PianistAnother Sunday evening at the street-corner
next to the coffee parlour, overlooking the ocean
The solo pianist with desert-lime eyes
sits once-again on the piano chair.
His hair,a...
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Categories:
bench, absence, emotions, music,
Form:
Free verse
Gardens At Keukenhoff AlouetteGardens at Keukenhoff (Alouette)
As the tulips rise
With their sweet surprise
Fragrance permeates the air
Colors cover land
From God's divine hand
In these gardens we all share.
Such astounding views
Come...
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Categories:
bench, april, flower, garden, spring,
Form:
Rhyme
FallFall and
red yellowing
leaves in the trees
an old man sitting
on a bench
watches them
fall
and thinks of his youth
a youth
sitting on a bench
looking into...
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Categories:
bench, age, funny, nature, society,
Form:
Blank verse
Waiting For SunriseMy whole life waits, just this moment, the ink still
wet; for sunrise this clear May morning.
My shaman up already,
hair askance, dancing and trilling his flute
to...
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Categories:
bench, assonance, beautiful,
Form:
Lyric
Random Acts of KindnessA crazy old man once told me,
“Heaven is made of the things you give away.”
It appeared he was next in line for heaven
as he had...
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Categories:
bench, allegory,
Form:
Free verse
When Love Is ForeverResting on the beige leather couch
next to the dimly lit tiffany lamp
He dozed off into an early night sleep
She smiled looking at him
as...
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Categories:
bench, love,
Form:
Free verse
Love Anger Death and GuiltLOVE ANGER DEATH AND GUILT
Blog was A young girl who was
Still at school
Everyone loved Blog, she
Was nobody’s fool,
In fact her peers regarded as...
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Categories:
bench, anger, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Oblivious To NatureIt seemed like nature had concocted a singular miracle
As I sat on the wooden bench looking in towards the woodland.
A red maple tree stood tall...
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Categories:
bench, nature,
Form:
Verse