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Best Infant Poems

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


Premium Member Infant Daybreak
Ambling in the charm of Tidal Basin
We hold hands with a lilac morning
Long before it pleads with the sunrise
To sparkle the view of a purple...

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Categories: infant, imagery, nature, romantic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not...

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Categories: infant, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Poems Are Children To Me
My poems are conceived, not within the womb,
which long time now has been devoid of seed.
My poems are born from a need to be heard:
my...

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Categories: infant, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Longings of An Old Man
I long to—
Walk one more time
To where the land ends, and the ocean begins
To listen expectantly for the sounds of infant waves
Grasping layers of golden...

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© Jim Hirtle  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: infant, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope, a Little Remained
Hope, A Little Remained

She walked the creaking floors of the rat-infested room,
trying to remember what tragedy had sent her to this shabby place.
Her heart felt...

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Categories: infant, anxiety, dark, emotions, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Fallen Star
I tracked along a silver trail
carved out from Earthly dust
by rays persistent in the dark 
and midnight wanderlust.

It led me to a bubbling fount
of sulfurous...

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Categories: infant, earth, hate, heaven, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Why He Fought
Soldier stashed a silver locket
Safe inside his jacket pocket
When the war would numb his senses
He’d break down and drop pretenses
Open up the only token
That recalled...

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Categories: infant, love, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Three Wishes
If I had three wishes and knew that they’d come true.
I’d go back in time.  There are things that I’d redo.
I wouldn’t do them...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: infant, appreciation, family, life, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Farewell, Youthful Days of Wading In Crystal Clear Streams
Farewell, Youthful Days Of Wading In Crystal Clear Streams

Farewell, the coming dawn and its soft, golden glow
born as infant fawn, a peaceful river in flow
or...

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Categories: infant, art, beauty, creation, dedication,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Poetry
Often I harken back
to a very wise poet,
how “life is but a stage”

of tender moments
splashed and splattered
by fierce jabs of passionate 
heated rage 

such opera...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: infant, art, inspirational, passion, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Late For Tears
Oh, my brother..
I can see storms causing havoc in your eyes.
All you can do is stare,
seeking comfort from a tombstone.

Beautiful marble cannot reach out to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: infant, absence, angst, death, mum,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
Youth

When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as...

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Categories: infant, age, death, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member I Write Poems, Pages and Pages
  . . .

as a child I had an unwritten history in this world
blind, wailing and unaware, totally helpless
crying is all I knew of...

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Categories: infant, memory, poetry, writing,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member A Daughter's Heart On Mother's Day
Mother, sometimes memories are fraught

                    ...

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Categories: infant, emotions, hope, mother daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Choirs Sang In Ardent Voice
In dawn's aura, mountains glistened with snow.
Rooster's crowing proclaimed the break of day.
December's frosty winds began to blow
as clouds shadowed a sullen shade of gray,
and...

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Categories: infant, christmas, god, jesus,
Form: Quintain (English)

Book: Shattered Sighs