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Summer Poems | Examples of Summer Poetry

Premium Member Floral Paths of Summer
Flowery paths wildly intersect rich, late summer; While beautiful flute music plays in green trees, Amidst song so rife, without drumrolls of thunder. In butterscotch ease, drift humming, honeybees. While beautiful flute music plays in green trees; The exotic blooms send pleasant fumes, far away. In butterscotch ease, drift humming, honeybees; With huge, tossed hibiscuses, in crimson disarray. The exotic blooms send pleasant...

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Categories: beautiful, flower, nature, summer,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Summer
I lost my shoes each summer, as you should just placed them in my case and went barefoot mother said I shouldn’t, aunty said I could Except for Sunday school, of course, tut-tut. If every day were summer, which I wish I would lose my shoes, paddle in the pond and let them all be tickled by the fish; ten toes that...

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Categories: summer, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member SUMMER JUXTAPOSITION
A SUMMER JUXTAPOSITION) Wow…90 degrees! Suddenly, white clouds...dark blue: Then, steaming rain falls ...

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Categories: summer, extended metaphor, hyperbole, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member I Like Summer
Winters are vital for all mankind. And there's snow on mountain tops; But for most, it's not fun. Springs are alive and speak to us all. But it's not without some storms. Oh, sweet, color me Autumn; What of you not to like? Oh, Summer, you are loved. I love your long and sunny days. It's enough to astound and amaze. I met the...

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Categories: summer,
Form: Free verse
Electric Summer Mist
In summer's heat, where vibrant blossoms sway, A storm awakens, darkened clouds align, The thunder whispers secrets of the day, While lightning's flash reveals the past's design. Beneath the tempest's wrath, my heart takes flight, To memories concealed in shadow's veil, Each droplet falls, a tear of lost delight,...

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Categories: summer, anger, betrayal, fate, moving
Form: Sonnet



The Clocks Go Back One Hour
Time changes with life and life changes with time. October grows too old, Hobbling backwards With the burden of years, On the sinuous alcove of time, Tenebrous and feathery, Her hidden lamps blinking furiously At the silhouettes of wasted days. The wasted leaves of autumn Break forth and dance down With the weak speed of burnt confetti. The clocks go back several ticks, Schlepping on the tired...

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Categories: march, october, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Summer Nights
I recount the nights of faint, distant glows — the dimmed party lights of summer — of silenced streaks of fleeing light, tassels of clouds adorned in fleeting whites, on the broad balcony of the west, when the incidents on the large vestibule of the sun sum up their lives and times on seasons’ palimpsests. The wild party closes by the stretch...

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Categories: night, summer,
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscopic Summer
Bright and beautiful day, Glowing colours of light, Outdoor beckons to us, There’s fun until twilight, Each day brings a newness, This light leaves for the night. July 15, 2025. Some Kind of Kaleidoscopic Poetry Contest, Nette Onclaud. ...

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Categories: color, light, night, summer,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Summer Dreams
In summer, I would never hear the call for dinner. I was having too much fun when I was at the plate in wiffleball and hoping I would score the winning run. I could not hear the voice, "time to go home", as I dug holes and caught crabs on the beach. I could only hear...

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Categories: memory, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Resplendent Summer
7/14/2025 The splatter of sunlight on the azured-wall, Does in soul- filled ecstasy brighten! My soul to write in glory, an uplifting creation. God, may all poets, their summered-words ,enlighten. ...

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Categories: poetry, poets, summer, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member SUMMER SUNRISE
SUMMER SUNRISE The sun blooms on the horizon, golden petals stretching ever outwards into the rich blue. It is the brilliant flower of the sky warming our summer days and inviting us to a fresh start. crimson, scarlet, rose sunrise hues slowly ascend morning’s gentle start ...

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Categories: 12th grade, summer, sun,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member OH WATERMELON
just for fun.... OH! WATERMELON! Oh watermelon, you’re a sweet, juicy summertime delight inviting us all to take a refreshing bite. Your juice drips down, a sugary, sticky stream. You’re the taste of summer, delightful but not clean. Your rind cracks with a satisfying sound. Your dark...

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Categories: 12th grade, summer,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Summer's Glow
pleading petals play gently in the sun whispering joy across the sticky skin summertime blessings cannot be outdone however, autumn is her next of kin praying roses and melancholic buds remembering our heart’s tender healing hanging in timeless ache of fair redbuds season’s bliss lifts shadows who’re concealing promising the night stars, moon and fireflies rousing such beauty the skies come to life only God...

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Categories: summer, appreciation, autumn, seasons, star,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member summer waves
* summer waves g l i t t...

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Categories: sea, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member stopping in an alley on a summer day
Stopping in an alley on a summer day rainbow trash exhaling its hot fetid breath a scamper of invisible residents searching for the remains of elegant dining the Nordic hum of struggling A/C units as an evening sun seems to avoid entry music drifts from an open window slowly fades in the humidity peeking over my shoulder I slide behind the dumpster… ...

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Categories: city, summer,
Form: Free verse

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