Best Bough Poems
Below are the all-time best Bough poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of bough poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Dryad's TaleOne day while passing by a tree, I heard a sigh.
It seemed the oak could speak; I felt my knees go weak,
for like a siren’s...
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Categories:
bough, day, fantasy, me, tree,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
bough, dark, fear,
Form:
Free verse
At Summer's EndWhen Autumn veils my season's smile
and lingers in the air a while . . .
though Indian days be gold spun,
my summering will come undone.
Night's shadows...
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Categories:
bough, autumn,
Form:
Kyrielle
Categories:
bough, adventure, beauty, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Tell Me NowNow that your spirit hovers in chilling night air
Can you find your way to offer me some insight
So many times I pledged my love to...
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Categories:
bough, lost lovewords, me, me,
Form:
Sonnet
Winter's SongAutumn dripping leaves of weary gold
Exits quietly, fading through the trees.
Hawthorn shakes her cloak of ruby fire.
Naked to the woods and twisting breeze.
Winter’s breath...
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Categories:
bough, fantasy, imagination, nature, sea,
Form:
Rhyme
The Never Ending NowUpon a breathless moment in time,
A thousand hells do exist;
Within a paralyzed paradigm
A love is lost in the mist.
Where hearts are broken forever,
Amidst the never...
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Categories:
bough, break up, heartbreak, lost
Form:
Sonnet
In Her Eternal SleepThe river flows, carrying her
Away from earth out to somewhere---
Bird-music groans as harsh wind blows-
Carrying her, the river flows.
The gulls above cry ,that...
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Categories:
bough, death, grief,
Form:
Quatrain
The Raven and The BardThe Raven and the Bard
-Daniel Henry Rodgers
The Raven's quill drips shades of blackest night,
Its haunting words, a melody of fright.
The Bard's natural lines, like "Evangeline's"...
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Categories:
bough, philosophy, poets, psychological,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Song of the Four SeasonsSong of the Four Seasons 2-16-24
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Song of the Four Seasons
Jagged steel gray skies
Compose barren bough sculptures
Midnight days, Orion nights
White fire crystal symphonies.
Spring wriggles adagio toes,
Sunbeams...
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Categories:
bough, autumn, seasons, song, spring,
Form:
Free verse
The Last Gold LeafThe last gold leaf hangs on the bough;
summer is just a memory now.
You, too, have gone, my golden friend;
our summer days came to an end.
We...
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Categories:
bough, absence, bereavement, death, farewell,
Form:
Elegy
Wisdom of the CougarShe thought by marrying an older man
She would forever look young in his eyes
He led the way, ‘twas a child that held his hand
Until he...
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Categories:
bough, life, philosophymen, men,
Form:
Rhyme
The Brilliant SpringCrazy wind whispers
Into the ears of ‘champa’
A light scented Indian flower
Trees are full of them now
Your love in each and every bough
The breeze is...
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Categories:
bough, allusion, april, beautiful, books,
Form:
Lyric
The Frost Bitten LeafO last withering leaf hold on to the bough
Whatever be the terror caused by the lightning
Whatever the ruthless...
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Categories:
bough, allegory, death, hope, may,
Form:
Rhyme
Twenty Years From NowI have got no doubt twenty years from now
I’ll transform myself into fragrant air
To write rhymes as you’ll come under the bough
So fondly I’ll raise...
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Categories:
bough, death, emotions, humanity, life,
Form:
Rhyme