Get Your Premium Membership

Best Formation Poems

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


Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crayon Caresses
"Crayon Caresses"

blue velvet sky caresses
pink cotton candy clouds
beneath a gold umbrella
red heartbeats breathing loud.

a yellow Sun kisses skin
of silky bronze glowation
footprints carve love in brown...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Terra Incognita
Peering beyond reach of human capacity
I revolve around the sun in a solar orbit,
Looking deep in space for origins of bygone
Going way beyond anyone has...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, science, space, stars, universe,
Form: Personification
Premium Member A Friendly Goodbye
Poem 1: A Boy And His Painted Piano

he used lively greens
tender blues,
touches of plain mauve 
and rainbow trout splatters
to paint music
on the gas fumes 
that...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, beauty,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Poetry Tears
Poetry tears ..
Crystalline ants march down my face
Like little soldiers they line up in formation
communicating with their feelers
words drip drip drip onto the page
Leaching out
Spreading...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, emotions, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Poets of a New Dawn

Taking a long ink dip in a desert pond,
rejected drake words
ripple echoes in the wilderness: Tread with care!
Dreadnought thoughts silicate crystalized,
glass menagerie opens to a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, poets, truth, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member How Come I Wonder
The sun awakes each early morn
Bright sky glows its colors adorn
Nothing but jeans tattered and torn
Miracle of life a child is born
	How come I wonder

Fly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, appreciation, innocence, nature, riddle,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Autumn's Golden Symphony
Written: September 22, 2023
____________________________________________________________

Shimmering shadow sinks sandy saffron shrouds  
Beneath azure skies, wispy wise wool clouds. 
Incalescences in a skid, distinct buds in the...

Read more of this work...
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: formation, analogy, appreciation, autumn, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Latino-Americanos: the Children of An Oscuro Pasado
Baile con migo, hips made from the rhythm of merengés and cumbias, samba, swagger and a pinch of azucar mixed into my backbone. 
My first...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Birds In Flight
smart  v formation
departing south for winter
food for the asking

  10/27/2014...

Read more of this work...
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: formation, bird, food, winter,
Form: Haiku
My First Horseback Riding Show
The air was thin and icy.
It was dark and cold outside.
A blanket of snow covered the ground.
The footprints in the snow led the way.
We loaded...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, animals, passion, sports, sea,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Ice Serendipity
Even the strongest of ice
Can crack and shatter
It’s only as strong
As the frozen matter

Water exists rigid
Porous and slippery
In great formation
With serendipity

The ice forms on branches
Where...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, water,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I'M Just a Little Particle
I'm just a little particle created so long ago
I swirled with many of me to help your Solar System grow

For many years I spun I...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, science,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Diamond Head Sunrise
A predawn hike with flashlights to the top of


Diamond Head, a little less than a mile

In and out of lava formation to

An elevation of about...

Read more of this work...
Categories: formation, addiction, adventure, beautiful, color,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Shattered Sighs