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Best Height Poems

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


Premium Member I'Ve Never Heard Snow
I've never heard the sound of snow
nor dawning's oboes crooning light,
yet witnessed angels' trumpets blow

and chimings of the flurries grow
as alabastrine wings take flight.
I've never...

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Categories: height, imagery, seasons, winter,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: height, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flight To Midnight
O albatross guide my loosed soul  
from the shipwreck seized by sandy shoal

persuasive Polar Star in quiet pull
a sailor’s tired eyes gone dark 
I...

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Categories: height, angel, beauty, death, forgiveness,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Halloween's Mask of Comfort
In a house beside the forest lives a woman and her son

He is scarred by burns and fire – hidden kept from everyone

There is land...

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Categories: height, desire, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
On Mountain Nine
Running beauty rippled in crystal white
No whisper in the air, just a wondrous sight
My eyes ascend in awe to a far light
Small and empty observing...

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Categories: height, beauty, creation, feelings, heaven,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Distinct Ballet
I've thrown my quill in quiet rage
   sometimes, when mocked by empty page.
I read such vibrant poetry 
  in awe, and ask...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: height, butterfly, poetry, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Woman In Chains
Arousing opulence of ancient ballrooms
She creates her own make-believe world
Waltzing coyly in terpsichorean rhythms
Upon glittering stage where they sell love
Each time she caresses arms of...

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Categories: height, betrayal, emotions, woman,
Form: Free verse
A Mathematical Uncertainty
Can you count the times you’ve crossed me
And divide it by the times you disrespected me
Then multiply that by the times you hurt me
And come...

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Categories: height, confusion, love, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Just Be Grateful -
Praying for the day I meet  heaven 
You being there sharing this moment
In paradise here I come with open arms 

Listening to the song...

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Categories: height, beauty, blessing, dream, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Last Poem For You, My Mate
A Last Poem for You, My Mate

If Death comes calling in colorful spring
I hope it will come in the month of May
When our garden is...

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Categories: height, death, fate, leaving, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Bard of Gort
Springing free from glistening 
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for 
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above 
A distant lark now hangs in 
Flight.

Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...

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Categories: height, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nature's Way Constanza
Nature's Way Constanza

Sol puts to sleep the hills with light
     while gloaming sheds all fading rays
     and...

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Categories: height, day, nature, night,
Form: Rhyme
Tell It To the Rain
Like the cloud, I am collecting the moisture in memory,
Soaking up the solitude, I have been alone in misery.
Feeling full on failure, droplet wall builds...

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Categories: height, hurt, rain, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Star Sugar
Oh, scattered flecks that sparkle light

like crystals emptied from a bowl

to dust the skies from some great height!

Oh, scattered flecks that sparkle light,

you sweeten up...

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Categories: height, nature,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Heroes

Heroes

When need arises they rise up in every town
No matter the toll it takes, they just carry on,
But not everyone will recognize who they are
For...

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Categories: height, hero,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things