Best Environment Poems
Below are the all-time best Environment poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of environment poems written by PoetrySoup members
listen for the drum
listen to the drum,
talking to the dance
listen to the elders,
whispering their chants
listen to the hooves, pounding on the plain
listen to the birds, prophesying rain
listen...
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Categories:
appreciation, culture, environment, native
Form:
Rhyme
Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...
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Categories:
environment, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Shape of WaterSo much to know, so little time to learn
To think of all the unsolved mysteries
Still trying to understand all that we know
How sad, most go...
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Categories:
environment, life, perspective, planet,
Form:
Free verse
The Tale of Poetry Soup ForestThere's a defender among us, a friend who never surrenders or concedes
No thief is he, who offers encouragement to people with his kind deeds
A rapscallion,...
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Categories:
environment, poets,
Form:
Narrative
TO THE FLOWER
TO THE FLOWER
Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.
Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...
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Categories:
beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
STREETLIFEI’m on my way into the grocery store
when I see him huddled near the shop doorway
In his outstretched hand
an empty coffee cup
I throw in a...
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Categories:
environment, society,
Form:
Free verse
Eyes Open
Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness
Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh
How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the...
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Categories:
appreciation, devotion, environment, future,
Form:
Free verse
Lifes Simplicity MaintainedYou were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating...
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Categories:
environment, career, character, cheer up,
Form:
Epic
A yarn of sunshine"I've got sunshine"
TANKA~ 1
This heavyweight wind
jiggles the chimes limbs hanging
sensitively
a thousand sound waves invade
visible radiation
~~~~~
TANKA~ 2
Dark moonlight tempest
blunders off the mountain top
a...
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Categories:
environment, allusion, desire, earth day,
Form:
Tanka
Guess Who~It's a Beautiful Day~
Under every star,
A smile waltz-like no other
Once a simple cherry blossom girl,
enjoying puppets and lullabies.
Sitting in front of the screen
Anxiously...
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Categories:
appreciation, celebrity, child, environment,
Form:
Free verse
'BEACH BUDDIES' COLLECT 'STUFF' - FOR CONTESTTwice a month on our tiny little Isle
A group of heroes go that extra mile
Wearing protective clothing they clean the beach
Removing vast amounts of rubbish...
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Categories:
environment, appreciation, beach, beauty, care,
Form:
Rhyme
Poisonous Self Doubt
Only life in our mortal realm
entrenches self-doubt’s stand.
People and events cripple us
with critical mirrors showing us
visuals of our ineptness.
All who are predisposed...
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Categories:
environment, anxiety, character, confidence, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Inside a Japanese Garden: with added notecherry blossoms fall
confetti cast to the wind
tumbling to the ground
orange koi swimming
summer rain upon the pond
lotus of soft blush
bamboo whispering
their voices sing at twilight
serenade the...
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Categories:
environment,
Form:
Haiku
Categories:
environment, sexy,
Form:
Light Verse
If I Ruled The World
If I ruled the whole wide world there's so much that I would change
I wouldn't be Mr Popular and they'd think me somewhat strange
First thing...
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Categories:
conflict, environment, hate, international,
Form:
Narrative
shell shockShe held a seashell to her ear
But heard no soothing sea,
Just choking gasps of life caught in
An ocean of debris.
05.11.19
Pithy Pome Poetry Contest sponsored by...
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Categories:
environment, ocean, pollution,
Form:
Epigram
The Children of Yesteryear -'The Dreamer Part 2'
Prequel to ‘The Dreamer’ video
Eerily shrieks the last heron.
Through the stillness he dare not disturb
a lone wolf whimpering prompts the night
or could it be day?...
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Categories:
environment, hope, nature, strength,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
death, environment, me,
Form:
Monoku
These We'll Yet DestroyTwo owls charmed me
moments before I embarked
on the hours of industry to come.
Their silhouettes were dark and secretive,
their voices wistful and low.
I had a moment...
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Categories:
environment,
Form:
Free verse
Climate Change Is No Joke
Our problems all began with the industrial revolution
And its legacy has left us with toxic pollution.
Climate change is real and been declared a code red
And...
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Categories:
earth, environment, fire, pollution,
Form:
Couplet
I'M HAPPY WE ARE ON LOCK DOWN
I’m happy we are on lock down
I’m now spending far less money
Sadly I can't visit my elderly mum
So I sent her two jars of honey
I’m...
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Categories:
environment, family, health, home,
Form:
Rhyme
OverlapThe overlapping of me and us three
Of who I was and who I turned out to be
I never ever felt I was good enough
Or...
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Categories:
environment, abuse, angst, appreciation, care,
Form:
Narrative
Mother Earth
There is a flawless planet that abounds with diverse life,
Where humans live in unity, free from hate and strife.
The oceans, lands and rivers are...
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Categories:
earth, environment, future, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
THE WHISTLING HAMLET
A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic,
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal,
Warbling quietly to whistle...
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Categories:
environment, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form:
Alliteration
What the Eyes Cannot See
Kyoko walks alone in the morning tide,
comforted for a fleeting moment by salty air.
She feels the same sand between her toes
as when she...
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Categories:
environment, loss, natural disasters,
Form:
Narrative