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Best Porch Poems

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


Premium Member From My Porch
After the end of a long hot day
At the end of my rope  with nerves all frayed
I sat on the porch to rest a...

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Categories: porch, summer,
Form: Pastoral



Premium Member Starry Starry Night - POTW
POTW

When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...

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Categories: porch, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Who But God
Who but God could paint the evening sky
And use a brush that is a fiery torch?
Tonight, the garish sunset makes me high
In awe, I stand...

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Categories: porch, philosophy, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Escape of the Bluesman's Song
Within the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch   a rickety chair   
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...

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Categories: porch, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Coffee Colored Memories
It's quiet whisper stirs my languid mind
Inviting coffee colored memories
A young man's face with future yet defined
Each vapored breath a page in history

Familiar apparitions reappear
Whose...

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Categories: porch, memory, morning,
Form: Sonnet



The Garden That Lives On
The 
        old house
   from my memories 
 opens to a wide porch
adorned by mom with...

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Categories: porch, garden,
Form: Concrete
Recording/Re-Playing/Recording/Re-Playing
The farm
     and the porch light hums 
the sound of another 
orange dawn.

Burnt up – crisp
     ...

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Categories: porch, life, people, philosophy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Moth
A lone moth flits around my front porch light
as wind blows through my window, luring me
to step outside into black velvet’s night.

I search the sky,...

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Categories: porch, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Housekeeping
I'll do some housekeeping today
Take my broom and sweep the clouds away
There won't be anytime for play
But if you come and want to stay

I'll share...

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Categories: porch, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Like a Moth To a Flame
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Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece...

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Categories: porch, abuse, appreciation, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Shape
Premium Member The Lady In Green POTD
I was a zealous fashion designer, whose elegant styles were ever in vogue,
Like the rainbow time of cool, damp evening, that elegant colors go rogue.

Lost...

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Categories: porch, beauty, fantasy, fashion, green,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Grumpy Goes To Heaven
 
"Grief is the price we pay for love " 

              ...

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Categories: porch, cat, death, pets,
Form: Personification
Premium Member NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
POTD 8th Jan 24


 NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE

The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...

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Categories: porch, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Among Butterflies Sought
Is
This
Nature's Glory
As a quarry?
Alone and at peace
A life, a new lease
I pull up a piece of land
Take a little time to mend
This rainforest trembles
An open...

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Categories: porch, betrayal, butterfly, conflict, dark,
Form: Concrete
Jesus's Love Matters
Jesus’s love matters when the garden of eden turns to grey,
The fertile ferns frown as spirituality has been driven away…
A rosette reverence redeems within the...

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Categories: porch, conflict, evil, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs