Best Place Poems
Below are the all-time best Place poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of place poems written by PoetrySoup members
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
place, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Categories:
place, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
The Poet Who Never WasI thought I was a poet who had a pen of gold
With clear access to writing that was mature and bold.
I thought I could go...
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Categories:
place, emotions, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tale of Fire and IcePart I: Ice
He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...
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Categories:
place, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
place, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Wind From the SeaInspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947
Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...
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Categories:
place, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
I do not know?
The RoseThis is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls that...
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Categories:
place, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
place, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
place, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Black Diamond NightBlack Diamond Night (a coal miner’s cemetery)
Where the ebony, we call “NIGHT”,
Old black rocks sit under the twilight
Diamond shape eyes unclear and lonely,
Sinister...
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Categories:
place, body, death, history, lonely,
Form:
Epic
The Mother TreeThe Mother Tree
I am the mother tree that spawned the seeds of you.
My children, you've grown and branched away from me.
You've married, left home to...
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Categories:
place, birth, children, family, grandchild,
Form:
Sonnet
Alice Sweet Alice~Alice Sweet Alice~
*Like Sisters*
Everyday -- Holding Hands
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
...
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Categories:
place, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Healing Power of the Drumyour labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done
I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...
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Categories:
place, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
place, i love you, life,
Form:
Shape
A Poets AbodeA Poet’s Abode
A poet’s peaceful abode surpasses bliss
Depicting imagery beheld by eyes.
Dreams revealed go beyond the great abyss
Of space with stars that fill our cobalt...
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Categories:
place, art, beauty, passion, poetry,
Form:
Sonnet