Best Carnation Poems
Below are the all-time best Carnation poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of carnation poems written by PoetrySoup members
CarnationWith a slight glow of early morning sunlight
a single flower-bud unfolds bright
from its green protective wrap
to serrated knap
revealing
soft pink
appealing
velvet petals of
a carnation,...
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Categories:
carnation, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter from the Grave
Is the ship
still in its bottle..
Have your lips
become dry,
tired from yearning.
Do you still wear
my sage shirt.
Are you still crying,
are all those tears for...
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Categories:
carnation, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Timeless adoration
“A lover asked his beloved,
Do you love yourself more than you love me?
Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you.
I've disappeared...
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Categories:
carnation, love,
Form:
Free verse
That was Then, This is Now
I once saw a man with kaleidoscopic eyes,
reflecting in hues of periwinkle and persimmon.
His heart illuminated in shades of scarlet,
marigold and clementine,
releasing rainbow ink...
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Categories:
carnation, analogy, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
April FawnLonging in lowly light of longer days
by which a summer wilts paternal dreams
and browns the loitered heaves of yellow spring:
the budding void that stamps an...
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Categories:
carnation, depression, father daughter,
Form:
Sonnet
The Flowers In My World
Red soft velvet, forever in my mind,
purple and blue, every color of the rainbow.
White to near black emotional displays,
their meanings hidden in the multitude of...
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Categories:
carnation, flower,
Form:
Free verse
- Soft Swan Wings -You are a jeweled gift sparkling diamond rock temple
One of thousand in the world touched petal by petal
Skies above true blue wrapped cotton...
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Categories:
carnation, angel, beautiful, blessing, emotions,
Form:
Couplet
KeepsakesHis jazz collection fills the spare bedroom
Music man, you see, was his nom de plume
Our wedding album rests on the nightstand
A keepsake for my viewing...
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Categories:
carnation, husband, lovewedding, wedding,
Form:
Couplet
Dans Le Heure Bleue
“dans le heure bleue"
My skin feels alive
when you are
next to me
blood pulsing
from the core
of me
Root Chakra Red
My throat exposed
the Wolf now
lies next to me
in...
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Categories:
carnation, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Categories:
carnation, beauty, daffodils, purple, red,
Form:
List
- Soft Swan Wings -You are a jeweled gift sparkling diamond rock temple
One of thousand in the world touched petal by petal
Skies above true blue wrapped cotton...
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Categories:
carnation, beauty, feelings, love,
Form:
Couplet
Categories:
carnation, destiny, life,
Form:
Monorhyme
The Old Jam JarWandering the virtual
green fields of home,
I open the farmyard gate
fall into a haze of retrospect.
I see a “LMS Black Five” Locomotive
bellowing upon a utilized line,
ghostly...
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Categories:
carnation, old,
Form:
Free verse
7:30 A.M.In the morning,
the sweet aroma
of Carnation
wafts
from the earth
of wine fed sleep. The unrelenting chimes
of a lone tweeter
that you can’t fail
to notice...
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Categories:
carnation, life
Form:
Free verse
ColourficationCOLOURIFICATION
Sponsor: Silent One
Her sapphires seduced him beneath shadowed sheets.
He craves her slender body beneath the crimson setting of the sun
in the far west and...
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Categories:
carnation, love, lust, marriage,
Form:
Romanticism