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Best Landscape Poems

Below are the all-time best Landscape poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of landscape poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs

There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…

seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape 
of sun-raptured...

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Categories: landscape, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: landscape, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Land of Lights
A sweep of milky waves flood onyx sands
converging under endless summer skies
of northern lights in iridescent bands
Icelandic talismans of tales sublime.

A glassy sea of crystalline...

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Categories: landscape, beauty, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Honeymoon Serenade
Just as the moon rises each night
and even as snow is caressed by its light,
then glowing, I'll rise, becoming your dawn,
your curved sleeping form to...

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Categories: landscape, romance,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Winter Sonata
In the landscape 
of melancholy, 
where arctic 
heartbeats linger, 
I long for withered 
willows to blossom 
like speckled 
diamond petals, 
while your crystalline 
silhouette strolls...

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Categories: landscape, romantic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Forest
"What happens in the forest stays in the forest"

The trees are trimmed, 
The leaves on the ground 
Proposing passion, sweet mist
Naked with nothing to bare...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: landscape, art, imagination, passion, seasons,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Amidst the Darkened Veils
'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment

the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...

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Categories: landscape, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Land of the Midnight Sun
I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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Categories: landscape, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Feline Alert
*The feline Texan way*

A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country...

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Categories: landscape, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wings of Change
Remembering when
Perched high above on rocky crags
Cliffs weathered by times handprints
I saw far and wide to distant shores
Tendrils of desire radiating outwards

Riding the briny mist...

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Categories: landscape, appreciation, birth, celebration, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartbroken
“I know my heart will never be the same
But I'm telling myself I'll be okay”
Sara Evans

My heart no longer
beats the same,
as I’ve wiped away 
tainted...

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Categories: landscape, angst, break up, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Day of Reckoning
Above bleak pastures,
A cobalt coliseum:
Warriors are unleashed.
·
Aggressive brave clouds,
Battle for the dominance:
Vanquishment is vague.
·
Conquest of power,
Clash of divine elements:
Battle in the sky.
·
Sun and clouds collide,
On...

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Categories: landscape, nature
Form: Choka
Premium Member Snowflakes
Snowflakes

Sunlight glistens off crystal snowflakes
As they float and flutter through the sky
Like butterflies in their freedom of flight,
Never knowing where they might alight.
They leave us...

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Categories: landscape, beauty, metaphor, snow, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seeds of Wisdom
A solitary man
I make my way up the mountain
One step at a time
The life I know further and further behind
I wish to be alone
away from...

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Categories: landscape, loneliness, solitude,
Form: Free verse
A Rose For Rita
Here’s to the travellers,
   the passengers, the tourists
who trek this alien landscape
   in search of experience.

Here’s to the resilient,
  ...

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Categories: landscape, death, family, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs