Summer Poems - Examples of all types of summer poetry to share and read. This list of summer poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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in-comingSomething’s happening, let’s call it sunrise, for now,
and summer vacation in Geneva, in umm.. 10 hours.
My heart-beat is spiking, like a flag or kite flying.
I’m leaving an empty room - making one last pass with...
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Categories:
boyfriend, school, student, summer,
Form: Rhyme
The Life AcrosticLasting in summer's gleam, my childhood's delight.
In autumn's hug, I seek insight.
Fulfilling longing dreams, spring blooms lively.
Entering into winter, life bids me goodnight.
...
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Categories:
summer, autumn, childhood, life, seasons,
Form: Acrostic
The DreamOne hot summer night, I had a wonderful dream
About the sexiest woman I've ever seen.
She wore a mini dress that matches her red head.
She took me by the hand and here's what she said:
"You're...
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Categories:
summer, dream, happy, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
The Life-Giving DownpourThe sun, a tyrant, reigns with scorching might,
Days bleed together, a suffocating night.
My soul parched, I yearned for a cleansing rain,
To wash away sorrow and ease the sun's pain.
A tremor in the air,...
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Categories:
rain, summer,
Form: Couplet
Phenomenon
Fast as you can say ‘Jack Robinson’
Up pops another rookie phenom
But as April heroics fade
to June swoons
...
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Categories:
summer, baseball, change, hero, spring,
Form: Rhyme
Pools amassedI formed in the heavens; they built me in a pure overcast
Concrete looks far too weak to break my fallings contrast
All flower petals decreed a landscape grown to everlast
I will nurture them; in Sun to...
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Categories:
summer, flower, growth, rain, spring,
Form: Monorhyme
BoyIntriguing hollow log
Boyhood, sunshine, smiling
Slippery, slimy frog
Summer days whiling
On undulating grass -
Beauty so beguiling
Cloudy memories, alas,
You, outshining fog -
My bonnie lass...
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Categories:
summer, child, first love, memory,
Form: Other
In MichiganWe don’t put away our boots and coats.
Here in Michigan.
Instead, we close our eyes and feel a soft presence.
We jerk awake, in our hammocks.
To a dream of cold snow.
But it was just a dandelion on...
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Categories:
summer,
Form: Free verse
Summer DreamSummer Dream
Note: This is Ms Huang's first poem and English is a second language, so helpful comments are welcomed and encouraged.
(This was a collaboration in class.)
Summer Dream
by Lanier Thomas and Adele Huang
I dream along a...
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Categories:
dream, freedom, metaphor, summer,
Form: Couplet
The Red Summer RoseThe red summer rose waves softly in the wind
youth is strength and her petals hold together
Bloomed yesterday with a cheery red that smiles
and the morning dew tickles and trickles down her stem
courting butterflies and bees...
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Categories:
red, rose, summer,
Form: Free verse
mid summer hatchlings
mid summer hatchlings
tadpoles in a cattail pond ~
feast for an egret
...
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Categories:
summer,
Form: Haiku
ZEPHYR"Zephyr greets me with heavenly tidings midst torture of humidity." - by Poet
Breeze wafting blest peace
zephyr gently blows
serene news of grace
midst trials and tests
echoing triumph…
Air of gladness
zephyr breathes out
joyous delight
inspiring heart…
Calming soul
zephyr now
whispers...
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Categories:
summer, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
ZinniaQuote By Poet "The faces of pretty flowers will brighten anyone's day."
Here in a lovely garden we sit,
growing very close-knit.
Our faces of pretty color,
are bigger than a sand dollar.
We love to get a kiss from...
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Categories:
summer, flower, garden, giggle, hello,
Form: Personification
Zephyr"Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows"- Alexander Pope
A summer breeze in the garden plays
As lilies sway to its caress
Daisies move in rhythmic ways
Lilacs move to and fro
It's choreographed...
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Categories:
flower, summer,
Form: Nonet
Summertime Passion
Lift me, high and with passion,
to the crimsoned, brightness boughs.
Reflecting the color of the chamber song
of my faithful heart.
This intimate, summertime moment exists
for us only now!
On this summer day, we simmer as the...
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Categories:
summer, feelings, flower, imagery, passion,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Summer Poems
Read wonderful summer poetry on the following sub-topics:
acrostic, alliteration, beautiful, beauty of, camp, end of, haiku, holiday, kids, late, love, rhyme, school, season, solstice, vacation,
and more.
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