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Best Hammock Poems

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Premium Member In a Hammock Sky
In a hammock sky, sun seared
my skin, melting it away.
But in a twinkling, night fell,
claimed my soul, and birthed a star.


for  HAMMOCK OF SKY...

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Categories: hammock, imagination, nature,
Form: Verse



This Gypsy Soul
This gypsy soul is on the road
It leaves castles far behind
It abandons ghostly mist
which sabotages the caravan of life
It passes along the mountainside
 by golden...

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Categories: hammock, absence, passion,
Form: Free verse
This Gypsy Soul
 This gypsy soul is on the road

It leaves castles far behind

It abandons ghostly mist

which sabotages the caravan of life

It passes along the mountainside

by golden...

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Categories: hammock, adventure, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Agatha Christie Taught Me To Be a Book Worm
Behind a chair 
        Below a desk
 with my bare feet on a wall, in my flannel pajama...

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Categories: hammock, books,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Moment In the Morning
Through the brambles of the arbor's vine,

an artist has spinned some silver lace

This net was cradled over leaves

slung low, and wet with dew.


Evidence was left...

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Categories: hammock, nature,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Anticipation of Love
Fireflies danced amongst the shrubs,
Nocturnal fragrance filled the garden,
Sweet melodies of violin
Wafted into the serenity 
Of our quiet neighbourhood.
How could I not dream of my...

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Categories: hammock, love, stars,
Form: Free verse
Soliloquy of Abandoned Lighthouse

O hear I chant clinging to a sullen northern shore,
tempestuous serene rocky beach that you so adore,
sultry soliloquy sturdy stifled structure sings,
a witness of forgotten...

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Categories: hammock, hope, light, loneliness, ocean,
Form: Rhyme
One Lazy Afternoon
It was one lazy afternoon
 
laying in the hammock
 
under the azure sky
 
sheltered from the blistering sun
 
by the canopy of the old oak...

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Categories: hammock, bird, blue, day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Gifted Pig Named Polly
Pigs that swim the Caribbean aren't just silly rumors,
Polly is just such a pig, from the island of Exumas ...

Oh, Polly loves the water so,...

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Categories: hammock, animal, fantasy, flying, humorous,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Just That Archaic Poet
On a peaceful isle of your hammock
Bring me notes from an old guitar
That I may share euphoric thoughts
Embracing a geek in silence.

Past Tolkien's edge, a...

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Categories: hammock, dedication, friend,
Form: Blank verse
Color Me a Father
A child with a crayon can color an imaginary world,
With dolls of mommies, daddies, boys and girls,
Full of horses, cowboys, cars and trains,
Can scratch them...

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Categories: hammock, childhood, family, father, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member - Haiku X 209 - Summer - Lazy
hammock in the shade

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Categories: hammock, summer, sunshine,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Lonely
Silent tree with an empty hammock, swings to the sour perfume of life....

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Categories: hammock, angst, i miss you,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Dolce Far Niente
Cradled by a hammock
with the sun shining in.
Coddled with Summer fun.
Ice cream’s dripping
from a whopping sugar cone.
It’s sweet to do nothing
but tongue the licks
and swing...

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Categories: hammock, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Vigan City
Take your halcyon moment, have your blissful jaunt
Explore the northern hills and rivers, their helix flaunts
From zigzag paths of the south, from verdant plains of...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hammock, beauty, dedication, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs