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Best Afloat Poems

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


Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: afloat, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Amidst the Darkened Veils
'Neath umbra skies I seek a mirrored moment

the breeze a capricious charmer
blows serpentine sways to life
a ballet of tall switchgrass dancers
sweeping edges raspy green
dulling in...

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Categories: afloat, angel, august, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ecstasy
Exquisitely frail, a lone flute exhales, leaving this heart in a flutter 

Cascading aloft, soft violins rise, from the flow of smooth silver rivers

Swelling the...

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Categories: afloat, beautiful, music,
Form: Acrostic
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: afloat, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If This Was the Last
i remember all of our first times
all of our poems

i've always been safer in air
yet you kept me afloat in rushing tides
but
without your beautiful silhouette...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: afloat, angst, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: afloat, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Workshop Poem: Grand Tour To Fairyland
WORKSHOP POEM: GRAND TOUR TO FAIRYLAND


Sprinkled-rainbow clouds reign above the skies,
peeping yellow in-between wrinkled pillars 
shine like bulbs to crash the net of fog
attached to...

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Categories: afloat, beautiful, fantasy, imagery, journey,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Still Winter
Dead Winter Stray~ By: Poet Destroyer

Nearby paces, Combatants lost under the cemetery walls,
“Blessed Men and Heavenly Remedy Women of Ages,”
Feelings of dance at the beginning...

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Categories: afloat, death, dance, beautiful, woman,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Soft Canal
The powder of white sand holds her flesh
close to his musk pelvis
as she gasps with the murmured waves
trembling on the coast
of a fragrant mouth against...

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Categories: afloat, passion, places, romance,
Form: Free verse
At Cusp of Dawn
Mystical Moon, languidly adrift in pallid glory,
is holding night court, clad in gold silk sarong.
Ruling her astral kingdom, amusing with a story
about a cow and...

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Categories: afloat, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wondrous Wings
Dewdrops cling onto blades of grass
like sparkling drops of liquid glass.
And as the songbirds sweetly sing
onto blades of grass, dewdrops cling.

With wondrous wings, butterflies fly,
like...

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Categories: afloat, beautiful, butterfly, earth, image,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member As Autumn Ends
Late autumn glides  with buoyant ease
Where songbirds  twit  a mellow note;
A hymn for cycle’s last reprise
That graces  rippled leaves afloat:
November ...

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Categories: afloat, autumn, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
The Shape of Dark - A Murder of Crows
murders rise on nights like these
                   crows...

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Categories: afloat, angst, animal, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Nook and a Storybook
While resting in my nook, breaths grip
As lampshade marks edges of leaves;
That  I wander into the scene
On pages afloat, a tale weaves .
Listening to...

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Categories: afloat, books, imagination,
Form: Quatrain
Artumes Armies
Harken...those hollowing drums
Over cold vales so beat,
Exhorting a multitude of glistening 
Star-tipped spears,
As marching over shattered landscapes
In shinning replete:
Crunch Artumes eternal legions
Across the snow bound...

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Categories: afloat, winter,
Form: Rhyme

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