Best Adonis Poems
Below are the all-time best Adonis poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of adonis poems written by PoetrySoup members
Innocence LostIn the midst of midnight dreams,
like a whisper, soft and subtle,
her soul floated like a butterfly.
Reaching the province of Paphian passion,
portraying Aphrodite's desire for Adonis,
solitude...
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Categories:
adonis, passion,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Good Days of InnocenceA rose held before the dawn, overwhelmed by benevolent beauty,
its virginity violated by hostel hands,
only then will it reveal its blood-stained thorns,
where infatuated innocence is...
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Categories:
adonis, innocence, lost, sorrow,
Form:
Free verse
IndelibleI was seventeen, had one year left of high school and a boyfriend I didn't even love. It was the end of summer, and I...
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Categories:
adonis, happiness, high school, lost
Form:
Narrative
Love Me Like You Mean ItSee me; don’t just look at me.
Gaze into my warmth. . .adoringly.
Don’t utter words when the eyes can say so much.
Trace my face with your...
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Categories:
adonis, romance,
Form:
Rhyme
Still Water“Real love brings about calm—not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God." Yasmin Mogahed
When you hide behind...
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Categories:
adonis, love,
Form:
Free verse
Our First CrushThere was a time when I was young,
My cousin Glenn and I,
Did fall in love with one young man,
Whose face and form were fine.
He had...
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Categories:
adonis, childhood,
Form:
Quatrain
The Dew DiariesI was a world famous fashion designer, and quite enraptured with the new,
Like first caress of pink, peach dawn light, smiling at the full moon's...
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Categories:
adonis, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, morning,
Form:
Couplet
The Summer FlingA delight for female eyes was his gorgeous face and strong physique;
His dark eyes lured them in, but his kisses left them spellbound.
The beauty of...
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Categories:
adonis, passion, daffodils,
Form:
Sijo
Crimson RoseCrimson Rose
Against all odds, your destiny,
To live and grow, your history...
You grew and bloomed with all your might
With drops of rain and...
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Categories:
adonis, allegory, art, mythology, rose,
Form:
Rondeau
Rambling - POTDRambling across the grassy flowering meadow,
She felt like walking on air, as she flipped off her shoes,
She ran across, feeling the dewy fresh morning grass,
All...
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Categories:
adonis, death, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Where Ivory Perpetual Romance PrevailsHe came to me with skin like ivory,
although his eyes and hair were dark as night.
He came with one year past his eighteenth year.
I, with...
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Categories:
adonis, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Come With MeCome with me, I'll take you to the prom.
You're my heart throb as everyone knows.
Come with me, we'll play through the night,
And I'll be...
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Categories:
adonis, dance, love, youth,
Form:
Rhyme
Aphrodite's RoseFrom a garden I would seek
a flower so much more unique,
something quite sophisticated,
leaves lovers much intoxicated.
This thought distressed my heart to sigh
which...
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Categories:
adonis, beauty, flower, symbolism,
Form:
Rhyme
1980 Our Year In LoveThe depth of our love has an infinite range,
as I reminisce on the day that we met.
I will always remember your deepest voice,
a mellifluous sound...
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Categories:
adonis, love, romantic,
Form:
Rhyme
SapphicHolding Adonis
In another place and another lifetime,
gazing into eyes that gazed back with passion.
Kissing you, loving you and how you touched me.
Summer’s moon watched us.
Are...
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Categories:
adonis, lost love, , sweet
Form:
Sapphic stanza