Best Afternoons Poems
Below are the all-time best Afternoons poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of afternoons poems written by PoetrySoup members
OceanaOceana
Oceana flings her sequined petticoats
Upon the sands as if to toss the seaweed
From the swirling edges
While she dances with the wind
With each turn she...
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Categories:
afternoons, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
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:
afternoons, color, imagery, lost love,
Form:
Imagism
Blessings In the Loving Arms of JesusBlessings are real
Blessings are true
Blessings are sent from God to you
Early in the mornings
In late afternoons
Blessings despite the gloom and doom
Blessings are free
Blessings will...
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Categories:
afternoons, blessing, jesus, motivation,
Form:
Verse
When I No Longer Love YouWhen dawn's blush of light eclipses the moon
And afternoons find meadows sprinkled with dew
When I view willows smiling instead of weeping
And the keeping of promises...
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Categories:
afternoons, love, romance,
Form:
Romanticism
My Rose Was Not Seasonal My cherished one...
Here I am ,alone with stone wall paper
in the silence of my room.
The pit-pattering raindrops upon my windowsill
help me to remember,...
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Categories:
afternoons, absence,
Form:
Free verse
The Scent of Your SoulThe scent of your soul
a caramalized breeze of fruit odours
reverbrating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back in ninth grade
where we sat side by...
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Categories:
afternoons, absence, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Scent of Your SoulThe scent of your soul
a caramelized breeze of fruit odours
reverberating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back into ninth grade
where we sat side by side
Your...
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Categories:
afternoons, absence, feelings,
Form:
Free verse
Everyday Is BeautifulEveryday is beautiful, son,
and no that's not being optimistic.
You're here - you're alive - with one more day on your plate.
That's just being realistic.
Tuesdays are...
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Categories:
afternoons, appreciation, cheer up, children,
Form:
Carpe Diem
The Scent of Your SoulThe scent of your soul
A caramelised breeze of fruit odours
reverberating softly through my memory
Throwing me right back in ninth grade
where we sat side by...
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Categories:
afternoons, absence, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Summer's InterludeBeneath a lovers’ moon, Summer breezes in.
In still-cool primrose evenings lingering from spring,
she whispers in my ear.
I hear. . .
honey bees near lilacs, whippoorwills in...
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Categories:
afternoons,
Form:
Free verse
Just AugustThese gold suffused August afternoons
The luxury of this lazy light
Sweetened beneath peach blossom moons
Wide dawn reclaims the narrow night
As the sun lifts on saffron balloons.
08/09/22
Just...
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Categories:
afternoons, light, summer, sun,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)
Touch the Words In BrailleAwake through afternoons and ageless nights,
the poet waits for a muse to sneak.
His brumous mind reminisces,
frantically exploring a galaxy of words.
He looks for a lofty...
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Categories:
afternoons, art, butterfly, color, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
afternoons, muse, poems, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
An Enchanted DoorwayI was a sophisticated, world class traveler, like merry wind in green trees.
I had seen hottest deserts and rain forests, where songs will never cease.
I...
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Categories:
afternoons, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Couplet
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:
afternoons, appreciation, beauty, fantasy, morning,
Form:
Couplet