Best Afterglow Poems
Below are the all-time best Afterglow poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of afterglow poems written by PoetrySoup members
Autumn AfterglowAutumn Afterglow
As halcyon summer days
wave goodbye
Bucolic trees seen from
an autumn sky
Become a cynosure
...
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Categories:
afterglow, autumn, beauty, october, seasons,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter's Afterglowstars twinkled brilliantly
against majestic snow-capped mountains,
delicate pure white flakes danced;
swirling, twirling, rhythmically.
she stood, nose pressed tightly
against the window pane; gazing in awe
at the magic the...
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Categories:
afterglow, angst, death, introspection, loss,
Form:
Free verse
I'Ve Never Heard SnowI've never heard the sound of snow
nor dawning's oboes crooning light,
yet witnessed angels' trumpets blow
and chimings of the flurries grow
as alabastrine wings take flight.
I've never...
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Categories:
afterglow, imagery, seasons, winter,
Form:
Villanelle
Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside
still aches to meet its last beat
and a free spirit yearns...
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Categories:
afterglow, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
afterglow, nature,
Form:
Haiku
In Soft Glowing Mistress Flame of the Beauty's Breath - a Collaboration With Susan AshleyIn Soft Glowing Mistress Flame Of The Beauty's Breath
- a collaboration with Susan Ashley
In soft glowing mistress flame of thy beauty's breath
your heart swears...
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Categories:
afterglow, art, beautiful, desire, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Somewhere ExoticThe pungence of heartbreak swelters
in the tangled dreadlocks of love-lies-bleeding
Take me somewhere exotic
to breathe not the foul aroma
of disappointment and despair
Show me fields laced with...
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Categories:
afterglow, color, imagery, lost love,
Form:
Imagism
A Kept WomanDream-worker
delves deeply into my dream;
vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...
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Categories:
afterglow, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic ParkerThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...
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Categories:
afterglow, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTDPOTD 29 Jan 2020
A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...
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Categories:
afterglow, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
When In Love's Immense Depths, You Are Truly Cherished - a Collaboration With Robert LindleyMystical web spun memories of our sweet nights,
love began under stars and brightest of moonlights.
Hold onto that image, its joyous dreaming dreams;
fiery echoes, night trysts...
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Categories:
afterglow, fate, lost love, memory,
Form:
Romanticism
Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan AshleyThese words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...
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Categories:
afterglow, love, romance,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
AutumnalIn depth of woods how autumn dazzles, swirling beauty of ornate décor,
Waltzing with ochre hickory, birch; whirling flaxen moods of sycamore,
Gracing my view upon blazing...
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Categories:
afterglow, autumn,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Organ GrinderBetween paper-soft
worlds of fragile
imaginations,
I float upon those
gossamer tulips
that split every
second of saccharine
musings and
eclipsed confessions,
distinguishing all
photoelectric synonyms
of lachrymose...
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Categories:
afterglow, dark, deep, destiny, meaningful,
Form:
Free verse
Slow Hand - An Erotic Romance
Walking past each other and just by chance
My heart skips a beat and my knees turn weak
Your eyes lock with mine in a fleeting glance
In...
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Categories:
afterglow, lost love, lust, romance,
Form:
Rhyme