Best Sky Poems
Below are the all-time best Sky poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sky poems written by PoetrySoup members
In This Sky of NightI look at shining stars in cobalt sky
with just one wish to make on only one
of billions of them in this Galaxy
where we're just one...
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Categories:
romance, sky,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
sky, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form:
Couplet
Changing SkyCome, watch with me my darling child, before you go to bed
Here, hold my hand, while evening comes and takes the day away
Evening shadows tiptoe...
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Categories:
nature, sky,
Form:
Pantoum
When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the SkiesI see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...
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Categories:
sky, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form:
Lyric
Autumn AfterglowAutumn Afterglow
As halcyon summer days
wave goodbye
Bucolic trees seen from
an autumn sky
Become a cynosure
...
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Categories:
sky, autumn, beauty, october, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F l y i n g
a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth
and...
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Categories:
sky, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form:
Free verse
Magical MoonlightI watch moonbeams dance on an inky sea
Clouds drift on by, oh how the moon does shine
Moonlight shadows always fascinate me
This ever-changing scene is so...
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Categories:
moon, nature, sea, sky,
Form:
Pantoum
StarlightStarlight
As sunset fades from pink to violet
And twilight skies show trees in silhouette
Our heaven's open vault of diamonds shine
In awestruck twinkling glimmers so divine.
Reflections from...
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Categories:
heaven, sky, star, sunset,
Form:
Romanticism
The Strawman and the MoonA straw man stood fixed upon timber firm,
gazing at Autumn's gilded, moonlit prize.
He, the king of Earth and the winding worm,
she, the pale darling...
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Categories:
sky, autumn, imagery, inspirational, romance,
Form:
Sonnet
The Butterfly NebulaWhat yonder lies in distant sky,
and looks like lovely butterfly?
A cloud of gas that iodized
whose blazing beauty mesmerized.
Throughout the universe serene,
in Scorpius she can be...
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Categories:
beauty, nature, sky, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
sky, lost love, moon, sad
Form:
Free verse
Lullaby My Lustrous TwilightGolden-flecked bliss
of enraptured blown-kiss
stardust bestrewn
beguiling skies
bespangled sequin eyes
shimmer in swoon...
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Categories:
sky, angel, dream, heaven, night,
Form:
Lyric
There Is a Star With My Name On It
Oh! how love has bloomed—
fantasies like wild flowers plucked
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket;
a bouquet of white asters from Orion’s...
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Categories:
sky, desire, hope, night, romantic
Form:
Free verse
Mimosa SunriseBlush
fair skies
mist Sol-kissed
citrine seduced
mimosa clouds bask
dreamy in champagne light
golden-god’s sparkle fills
chalices roused and
rouged as poppies
hail dawn with
unfurled
whorls
Susan Ashley
August 16, 2021
~ First...
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Categories:
sky, beauty, flower, morning, nature,
Form:
Verse
November StarsNovember falls
In languid swirls
Of lacy sorrowful leaves
Waning circles
Of shortened light
How bold the cold becomes
Clearing the weighty clouds
From the pristine ebony ice
Of the heavens
Their astral beauty
Reflecting...
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Categories:
hope, longing, sky,
Form:
Free verse