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Best Buoy Poems

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


Premium Member sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...

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Categories: buoy, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Know the Deep
I voiced my question to the sea,
          And watched the buoy nod at me,
  ...

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Categories: buoy, beauty, death, moon, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Humanity:
Dear Humanity:

You know I love you, right?
Stop calling me Mother Nature!
I hate that!
Genderless am I…
Oh, yeah, I get the ‘bring life forth’ bit,
creator of new...

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Categories: buoy, corruption, earth, humanity, pollution,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: buoy, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member sailor -
surely, no concept of Heaven
      compares in all object to this -
        ...

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Categories: buoy, adventure, journey, joy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pipe Dreams
Pipe Dreams

Though I have a woman’s heart; it pounds with
dragon’s fire. Curled about the core of self, 
I have lain in wait for Asia with...

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Categories: buoy, analogy, symbolism, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Climb
Though dormant, your strengths are still present...
within the silky staircase of God woven DNA.
Just peel away layers of perceived weakness
climb through the fiery muck and...

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Categories: buoy, confidence, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Water
Smooth as ebony silk, black aquatic waves the melting
Essence of liquid evil, stirring this lake placid of our
Eternal nightmares, deadened space in the fathoms
Deep, beneath...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: buoy, anxiety, dark, fear, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Once Upon a Christmas 1954 - Part One - a Short Story From My Memoir
Each year as Christmas rolls around, as I buckle under the pressure and stress of shopping for gifts for people that already  have everything,...

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Categories: buoy, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Oceans
Reigning vitality you buoy on vigor of freedom
Hugging distant continents, caressing lively shores
Eternal since birth of time, ceaseless evermore,
Sensational, immense, omnipotent, abundant,

Enthusiastically you uplift glorious...

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Categories: buoy, ocean,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Gratitude
The pool grows green through the leaf cover.
Large pears hang upon ancient tree.
Mocking Bird sings chanting to his lover;
As the dew sparkles, like water in...

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Categories: buoy, father, inspirational, loss, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Spring-Tide - Memories On the Breeze
Oh ...

Spring-tide ...
Always things that juxtapose,
Life never flows as smoothly as a gentle rill 'round a stone.
Brief notes of harmony, torn asunder by a cacophony...

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Categories: buoy, appreciation, life, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Perfect Water Lair
The air is wet, the sky is very grey
A buoy works its shift down near the shore
Light is quite scarce in these clouds by the...

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Categories: buoy, life, ocean, rain, water,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope
"Kris Kringle Kisses Kalliope"

A Dream: the 4th Christmas.





deck the halls 
with memories
poets whisper pasts
that are ne’er forgotten

where presents 
a life 
that’s neatly wrapped
and attempts at...

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Categories: buoy, christmas, dark, light,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Sun Day
SUN DAY

                       ...

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Categories: buoy, adventure, beach, sun,
Form: Tyburn

Book: Shattered Sighs