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
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
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
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
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
Categories:
environment, sexy,
Form:
Light Verse
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
Categories:
death, environment, me,
Form:
Monoku
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
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
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
Earth Day~Planet of the apes~
Ape should inherit the world
Perhaps --maybe, just maybe!
Earth has a chance
~*~...
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Categories:
environment, adventure, blessing, corruption, earth,
Form:
Acrostic
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
IN THE MEADOWS IS MY DREAMIN THE MEADOWS IS MY DREAM
Strolling, strolling we are in the meadow: airy and green
where asters, dahlias, nod and wink passing their green
With him by...
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Categories:
beautiful, environment, family, life,
Form:
Ghazal
I am Me, Set me FreeI am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From...
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Categories:
cancer, creation, environment, health,
Form:
Ode
Dril-Baby-Drill
...and the wind..!
was,
electric.
there was water..!
there was sun..!
...it was all renewable...
the energy,
powered,
sustained,
life..!
Fossil liquids burning
emitting toxins
that was...
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Categories:
environment,
Form:
Narrative
Churchyard at MidnightTwas darkness upon the quietly residing heath...
And deathly was the sullen red sandstone tower...
Standing gloomily inside the masons dry-stone walls
Amidst toppling granite slabs and the...
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Categories:
environment,
Form:
Rhyme
Plastic Paradise
Time’s ticking for whooping cranes
wild buffalo and prairie dogs.
For their losses outweigh their gains
displaced by cattle, sheep, and hogs.
The elephant and the blue whale
may share...
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Categories:
environment, future, how i
Form:
Quatrain
The World Around USAwaking blithe each morning,
with eyes upon the World,
I wonder, are we mourning
with ebon flags unfurled –
or are they but a warning,
some draped like snakes and...
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Categories:
earth, environment, war,
Form:
Rhyme
For ShameThe inky black water sucks her in further
As she descends into the black depths of the abyss
Cloying dark swirls cover her head as soundlessly it...
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Categories:
betrayal, environment, natural disasters,
Form:
Free verse