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Best Colorado Springs Poems

Below are the all-time best Colorado Springs poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of colorado springs poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Mountain of Madness
A mountain madness, Colorado Springs'
Pike's Peak, some twenty miles to summit's top,
with roads like winding snakes that coil like rings
and at the open edge, steep...

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Categories: colorado springs, angst, journey, mountains,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member Butti the Tortoise
Butti the tortoise from the zoo has flown the coop

   Your brother Tutti misses you, you little poop

     ...

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Categories: colorado springs, animals, funny
Form: Limerick
Man, Dogs Best Friend
Man and dog, reputed best friends, rise above death’s fears.
With lives on the line, heroes save, minds and hearts in action.
Stories mount across counties where...

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Categories: colorado springs, angst, animals, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Conversation With An Angel Part 1
Conversation with an Angel

I live in an average neighborhood, in Colorado Springs. I like to refer to my street as
the ‘all American street’. Most of...

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Categories: colorado springs, faith
Form: Narrative
41 Revolutions Around Our Sun
As My Day of Birth Approaches,

I'm Reminded how Fast Another Year has Gone By.

The Years Come and Go,

And in Some Respects, I Feel Numb to...

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Categories: colorado springs, birthday, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member That Joe Kenda
Have you read about Joe Kenda?
That man is always on a bender
Hails from Colorado Springs
He to justice does them bring
Those bad men he'll do anything
To...

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Categories: colorado springs, america, blue, celebrity, murder,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanks For the Memories, Simba
We lost a very dear friend this past week.
Simba had become so very frail and weak.
He gave us so much joy during his 19 years!
We...

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Categories: colorado springs, animal, cat, death,
Form: Rhyme
Trumpian Nightmares
April 2 Walls
April 9 Pane e circus 2017 Redux

By order of his excellency
Emperor Donald the First

The merciful, 
the Christian King of Kings
The Sultan of Sultans
The...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: colorado springs, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Santa's Flight 2013
Just a quick reminder to my Souper friends far and near,
You can follow Santa's flight on your computer this year!

Christmas Eve NORAD will guard and...

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Categories: colorado springs, christmas,
Form: Couplet
Writing a Letter To a Solider
I’m writing a letter today to a solider that I know
To let him know how I miss and love him so
And when he returns to...

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Categories: colorado springs, family, hope, love, miss
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member How I Welcomed the New Year 2020
I was nursing a Metamusel Cocktail to keep me on the go,

When I fell asleep in my Lazy-Boy 'round nine o'clock or so.

'Round midnight my...

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Categories: colorado springs, firework, humorous, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Snowstorm
Summer Snowstorm


That summer, back in 'ninety-five,
   to Colorado Springs we flew
to visit grandkids and take in
   exciting places there to view.

One...

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Categories: colorado springs, june, snow, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hope of Glory
*Promised deliverer, humanity’s Redeemer
Rendered a sacrifice, He paid with His blood
Divine justice on behalf of us sinners
Atonement was made so God could forgive
God could forgive

Long-anticipated,...

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Categories: colorado springs, bible, christian, god, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Electorate Witnesses Wounded Beast
Electorate witnesses wounded beast...
flailing, lurching, and writhing in throes of agony

Trumpets blare acknowledging
crack hunters lucky strike,
i.e. bullseye salvo shot at
innocuous yet brutish
and nasty looking Homo...

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Categories: colorado springs, absence, autumn, class, evil,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs