Best Summer Solstice Poems
Below are the all-time best Summer Solstice poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of summer solstice poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Time of the Summer SolsticeThe Time of the Summer Solstice
Drums pulsing solemnly presage the break of dawn,
bonfires ablaze dot this auspicious June morn.
On the shores of Albion, Druid...
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Categories:
summer solstice, celebration, religion, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Summer SolsticeThis was when the whole world measured time
This is when the light would turn around
This is where the past would come undone
and the spinning earth...
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Categories:
summer solstice, history, people, seasons,
Form:
Free verse
Summer Solstice - My Midsummer DreamSweet summer comes in June and I will be
Underneath the sun, for I’m awaiting
Midsummer dreams and my own chance to see
Magical small beings out...
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Categories:
summer solstice, summer,
Form:
Sonnet
Summer SolsticeShimmering in the heat of the sun
Time stretched golden landscapes
Summer solstice, sunrise to sunset
Yellow orb sinking in fluorescent sea...
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Categories:
summer solstice, sea, summer, sun, sunset,
Form:
Alliteration
Summer Solstice
Alban Hefin, 'The Light of Shore'-
for Summer Solstice, was their name,
in ancient times of Druidry-
from the shore then the...
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Categories:
summer solstice, celebration,
Form:
Quatrain
Summer SolsticeCloudless sky, naked shades of azure.
Oh, summer vibrant, resplendent sun,
We thank Lugh for his longest luster,
Grateful for the bounty he gives everyone.
Sun lights awareness in...
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Categories:
summer solstice, happiness, hope, myth, mythology,
Form:
Sonnet
Theft of My Will To SurviveBlindly..
I beseech you
for my eyes won’t adjust
to this shaded maze of despair -
neither the lantern’s flame
nor a compass rose can help me now
in...
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Categories:
summer solstice, dark, depression, grief, loss,
Form:
Free verse
Dear Humanity:Dear Humanity:
You know I love you, right?
Stop calling me Mother Nature!
I hate that!
Genderless am I…
Oh, yeah, I get the ‘bring life forth’ bit,
creator of new...
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Categories:
summer solstice, corruption, earth, humanity, pollution,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Nature of Wisdom
Every flower has its own color
With annual observation,
this we springtime discover
Give a womb kernel cede
of acknowledgment
To the spectrum birthright
of each other
We are all one,
tho’ from...
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Categories:
summer solstice, metaphor, nature, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rising Sun and Waning Moon'Twas the time of Summer solstice, they wed
Verdant leaves clung to trees; the month was June
Whispered troths of love, sacred vows were said
'fore fauna, rising...
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Categories:
summer solstice, fantasy,
Form:
Sonnet
The God SeedsThe God Seeds
in the midnight summer solstice
out in air alive with fireflies
floats young lovers and their wishes
exciting moments hand and hand
hold the mind in solid...
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Categories:
summer solstice, devotion, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Mythology of Celtic CirclesIn the days of mystic Merlin and captivating Celtic lore
The Ancient Druids danced and exuberantly did explore
The Celtic Circles of cityscapes and festive furthermore
They gathered...
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Categories:
summer solstice, destiny, mythology, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Into the Sunset
We are facing the sunset, in the afternoon light,
while shadows stretch eastward over the hills.
Music selected from the radio waves
has blinded my senses in reverie's...
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Categories:
summer solstice, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Premenstrual Syndrome -She painted cubes and angles
drowned in hues
of density and celsius pressures,
it was in part due
to her retrospect of comfortable sorrow,
the syndrome was complicated
by the distant...
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Categories:
summer solstice, friendship,
Form:
Imagism
White RainbowsSprinklers arc
white rainbows
over emerald grass
The jets
burst
in nimbus shadows
geysering
a shimmer
of translucent flurries
under opal rays
Pools
of periwinkle ripple
and fountains
of lavender
sway
in a porcelain mist
10th Place
Summer Solstice...
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Categories:
summer solstice, color, garden, imagery,
Form:
Imagism