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Best Cactus Poems

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


Premium Member Feline Alert
*The feline Texan way*

A clean coat of paint - on my nails
Red shade of lips - on my smile
Solid oak charms - on my wrist
Country...

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Categories: cactus, adventure, beauty, body, mirror,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A World Without Poetry
An empty look of sadness
That never bears a smile,
A malnourished mind
Aching to utter its voice,
A baby’s cry missing
The sweet tune of lullaby.

A dark moonless night
Reminiscing...

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Categories: cactus, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Wander the Desert Alone
Aimlessly I meander in expansive barren-landscape
Whipped by the assault of rustling windy gales
Embossing sandy designs resembling ocean waves
Simulating pools of water in mirage of seascapes.

Plateaus...

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Categories: cactus, imagery, metaphor, nature, onomatopoeia,
Form: Free verse
Play Rain
Play rain , play melancholic tunes
Play closely to my ear, I need to hear

I want to listen to Sinatra's toe-tap sounds
As you fall, fall slowly...

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Categories: cactus, childhood, rain,
Form: Free verse
Graceful
"These woods are lovely, dark and deep, 
But I have promises to keep, 
And miles to go before I sleep, 
And miles to go before...

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Categories: cactus, death, deep, emotions, meaningful,
Form: Free verse



My Family Is Everywhere
My family is everywhere like wild seeds sown
On the whim and bluster of a wind
Some left for Cuba before the revolution
Bring green stalks of sweet...

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Categories: cactus, familyfamily, old, home, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Riding Misty
Though Santa never responded to pleas
There was just one gift on my list each year
A horse that could run at the speed of light
A bold...

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Categories: cactus, adventure, animals, happinesshome, home,
Form: Rhyme
Grinch: Supervillain
The cruelest of all villains lives on Mount Crumpit
for when it comes to Christmas, he says, "Dump it!"
He keeps trying to "Pooh pooh" that sacred...

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Categories: cactus, christmas, evil, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Out of the Desert
Stiff, stifling, arid air: snakes, lizards, sand,
and cactus. Scorched red rocks and baking skin.
My canteen empty in a barren land -
my romance landscape till first...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cactus, first love, love, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Sands of Time
Scorching hot sun..
Sun rays omitting intense heat
The flames of fireballs ignite..
Desert air ..
So dry and still..
A cactus thrives in desert paradise..

Sands of time..
Heat soars to...

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Categories: cactus, encouraging, endurance, nature, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Reach
Adrift her world no obstacles no dreams to moor, immobilized and still  
she sailed through stardust particles then glode into the nil 
Into the...

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Categories: cactus, analogy, children, emotions, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Nature's Beauty On Display
Tonight the golden glow of stars and the crescent moon's silver light are far more beautiful than mankind has the right to behold. The Creator,...

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Categories: cactus, beauty, nature,
Form: Haibun
Soul of Sea Stars
"Like a shooting s t a r,
         plunging from lunar fields of lavenders,
  to touch the...

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Categories: cactus, dark, death, deep, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Wave
Passion Wave

My tongue dares to taste
Craving a cold purified ice storm,
Trapped under a mountain of heat,
Yearning waters to cure this excessive hot weather waste
Prolonged periods...

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Categories: cactus, confusion, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flowering of Spring
Amassed in flamboyant Azalea blooms when my garden is free of the cold.
Bird of Paradise, dressed in purple and orange,  wear their colors so...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cactus, beauty, flower, spring, daffodils,
Form: Abecedarian

Book: Shattered Sighs