Get Your Premium Membership

Best Heats Poems

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


Dance of the Firebird
Dance of the Firebird

Rosita, sultry enchantress,
dazzling Andalusian firebird,
erotically she twirls, proud
like a phoenix flashing across the sky.

Flared ruffled skirt swirls,
in hues of red, orange, and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, beautiful, dance, sensual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Black Love -
Morning glory
                       ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, love, morning, , black
Form: Ode
Premium Member Proverbial Smoking In Bed
the unzipped match —
a flame that heats the tips of fingers,
those sensitive appendages
that linger,
upon the cheek,
the whiskers.

erogenous zones touched by the flame,
like candles arouse
compatible birthday...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summertime Sonnet
 Summertime heats the birds and bonny boughs.
Wings lighthearted and flapping with the breeze.
Likewise, the scent of honeysuckles arouse
A ring - the wedding bells of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, summer, wedding,
Form: Sonnet
Colors - Black and White
Life is in pieces of black and white 
Like a chessboard 
The moonlight shines through darkness of night 
Like a barcode 
~
Noah chose a raven,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, color,
Form: Rhyme



Belly Dancer
I walked in and found a chair,
And sat down and saw you there;
The light was shining, the light was low,
The candle flickered soft and slow.

The...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, imaginationlight, light, me,
Form: Lyric
Noonday Sun
Noonday Sun

Suffering, so much suffering astounds,
Suffering brings us to our very knees,
And cries out to us in sleepless nights,
In the morning, fatigued and wrenched,
Begging for...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, faith, happiness, sadrain, rain,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Two-Edged Swords
I write of two-edged swords (that tired clichè)
as though this modern boy knew hilt from blade;
as if I had been taught of true swordplay,
not learned...

Read more of this work...
© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heats, first love, loss, lost
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Stress On Toll Road Express
Maverick(Vers libre)

Life for me was vain, trying to get gain
In Peterbilt truck, I’ve had the worst luck

Driving in deep snow, bad tempers do show
Praying the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, confusion
Form: Free verse
Fire
Golden ambers resonate 

 specks of sapphire blue

and emerald green 

dance in the shadows of those caramel eyes

the warmth of your skin, as I caress

your...

Read more of this work...
© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heats, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are Like the Shooting Stars
We are like the shooting stars
Underneath God’s sun.
Speeding down our own life paths
Till our time is done.

Numberless, like bits of dust,
Moving through our space,
All so...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, life, life,
Form: Quatrain
Dream In Dreams
“Dream in Dreams" 
My mind awakes to taste the tongues of those words you release. Yeah its speaks to me!
Am hungry for those pink lips...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, heart, i love you,
Form: Lyric
November
November

Cool winds turn cold as the winds stir from the north
The sun, the life giving star, heats the tropics so far to the south
Its warmth...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, hope, seasons, life, summer,
Form: Free verse
A Fire For Warmth
A few hot-orange embers burn low in the fire pit.
Morning has sprung, evident only
In the vague concrete illumination
	of an overcast sky.
Scattered twigs and last night's...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, friendship, love, nature, world,
Form: Free verse
The Fire of Love
Passion heats the room,
With flickering...midnight flames-
On crackling bedsprings. 



______________________________________
Inspired by Celene Crescent’s Senryu Desires...

Read more of this work...
Categories: heats, love
Form: Senryu

Book: Shattered Sighs