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Best Vacation Poems

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

Vacation Time

Summer
Beach
Plane
Cruise
Parties
Fun...

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Categories: beach, summer, vacation,
Form: List

My Dream Vacation

Sand sparkles like diamonds under my feet.
Sun smiles in blue sky. I watch seagulls fly
while sitting with ease at my beach retreat.
I don’t need palaces...

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Categories: vacation,
Form: Imagism

Vacation Disaster

We arrived at the airport quite late
My passport was months out of date
My husband was snappy
The baby filled its nappy
I just stood there and got...

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Categories: humorous, vacation,
Form: Limerick

Summer Camp Souvenirs

When I got home from camp today,
My parents almost died.
They asked me how I got this way,
And here's what I replied:

"This little cast from heel...

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Categories: childhood, humorous, parents, vacation,
Form: Light Verse

Maria Down Under

There’s endless miles of golden sandy beaches
Sparkling aqua waters as far as the eye can see
Gods and Goddesses frolic au naturel down under
Here’s where Heaven...

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Categories: beach, lust, satire, vacation,
Form: Rhyme

Florida Keys Please

No litter, no rules, no society scent,
just peninsula pure soul content, ideally lent.
Awed and wowed with arms stretched wide,
I stand on Key’s narrow road, on...

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Categories: vacation, appreciation, beauty, ocean, sea,
Form: Rhyme

Venetian Visit

the light breeze
   cooled the morning sun
daytrip Venice
            had begun
vantage views
 ...

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Categories: nostalgia, places, vacation,
Form: Rhyme

Sweet Summer Night

The hot cars slowly wend their way down Mandalay boulevard. Young men whistle and honk at the pretty girls walking away from the beach and...

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Categories: romantic love, vacation,
Form: Haibun

A Venetian Honeymoon

A gondola floats o’er romantic tides
as you and I caress Venetian skies
laced deftly in exalted stars applied 
by brushes dipped in hues of lover’s eyes....

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Categories: marriage, romance, travel, vacation,
Form: Sonnet

Oceanside

By Dawne Zacharias 
                    
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Categories: ocean, peace, vacation, water,
Form: Free verse

See Sea Rider

I had never before glimpsed the sea, and I had often felt the lack,
As rainbows sense the lack of luster, so they keep on coming...

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Categories: vacation, adventure, fantasy, imagery, magic,
Form: Couplet

Dolce Far Niente

Cradled by a hammock
with the sun shining in.
Coddled with Summer fun.
Ice cream’s dripping
from a whopping sugar cone.
It’s sweet to do nothing
but tongue the licks
and swing...

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Categories: vacation,
Form: Free verse

Kiss Me Quiet

It's near midnight, whilst we moonlight walk
Palm tree lined fairway, Crickets singing
Hands clenched in loving vacationed talk
Hearts in wanting pound, Batangas is bringing
We, she and...

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Categories: vacation, beauty, holiday, i miss
Form: Ottava rima

Time In Hawaii

A month in Hawaii, ah, what a luxury to share
Revel in the warming sun and walk a sandy beach
Fresh warm breeze and coconut in the...

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Categories: paradise, vacation,
Form: Rhyme

The Sizzling Rainforest ''Dripping''

it was sizzling hot    scorching   blazing   sweltering -
    oh the unbearable heat   (from...

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Categories: adventure, nature, vacation,
Form: Free verse