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Best Daytime Poems

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


The Universe of You
I have never seen a flower blush when I took it's hue
and held it there a prisoner captive to my view.

I have always heard the...

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Categories: daytime, autumn, beautiful, love, planet,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Changing Sky
Come, watch with me my darling child, before you go to bed
Here, hold my hand, while evening comes and takes the day away
Evening shadows tiptoe...

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Categories: daytime, nature, sky,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Summer Nights
Summer Nights

Setting sun, the light is fleeting 
as this day in June’s retreating;
twinkling stars, the darkness greeting,
welcoming this summer night.

Sparrows in the treetops nesting;
daytime bustles...

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Categories: daytime, night, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Something's Amiss POTD
I was a successful, scientific explorer, traveling to the remote, distant lands,
Bettering noble lives of many, like budding, green spring which understands.

And every day held...

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Categories: daytime, dream, fantasy, feelings, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member As Daylight Turns To Dusk
As afternoon fades
and the shadows grow longer
daylight turns to dusk

As daytime slowly comes to end, 
and twilight spreads across the sky; 
the stars in heavens...

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Categories: daytime, love, night, romantic, sunset,
Form: Other



Premium Member Wake Me, the Owl, When the Moon Does Rise
Wake me, the owl, when the moon does rise
and his golden beams illuminate the skies,
when the darkness flees and the time just flies
and the cold,...

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Categories: daytime, bird, fantasy, longing, moon,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Merry Go Round of Earth
One half is submerged in light,
the other in darkness.
Half says goodnight and the other
tugs the harness.

Kids climb backyard trees tinged
with school bus yellow.
As lovers play...

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Categories: daytime, analogy, appreciation, beauty, bible,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Dear Little Wee One - Nursery Rhyme
oh come, my dear little wee one
      what a long, full day you've had
      ...

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Categories: daytime, child, children, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Firefly Days, Butterfly Nights
one fine day they changed places
fireflies lit daytime shadows
while butterflies splashed the night
a shrewd color scheme

bright hues and exotic moon
flittering and fluttering
pure rapture under the...

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Categories: daytime, beautiful, butterfly, day, flying,
Form: Dodoitsu
Premium Member - Build Play and Learn With Lego -
                        ...

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Categories: daytime, children, color, fun, nursery
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Love Exit -
She spoke about Love as though it were a ghost
that haunted Her heart, a gobblin of garrulous grind & grime,
a spector of weakness that if...

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Categories: daytime, love, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Blind Date Disaster - Now a Collaboration
He arrived wearing pink skinny jeans
They were scruffy and ripped at the seams
He looked like a wiener
I will not be meaner
But he’s sure not the...

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Categories: daytime, clothes, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Four Cafes
High above the quiet, darkened streets of January, the night wind begins to whisper secrets through my apartment window casements. Far below me lie four...

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Categories: daytime, character, drink, eve, humanity,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Artistic License
     Artistic License


     Our mind sees sky as golden glow

       ...

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Categories: daytime, art, nature, sky,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Last Night
I laid out on my porch last night
Listening to coyotes rage a fight
I watched the moon with her bright, full face
Place a blanket of shadows...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: daytime, life, nature, night, night,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs