Best Lake District Poems
Fireflies Or Fairies...O to be in England
in the early days of spring
when the golden daffodils
steal the heart and make it sing.
Roaming the Lake District
far away from urban noise,
by cascading water......
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Categories:
lake district, imagination, longing, love, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Walking By the Lake...Such a good day for a walk
here in my favourite countryside
many times walked this pathway
blessed memories in my mind confined
All set with a rucksack on my back
walking boots fitting my size......
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Categories:
lake district, life, memory, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme
Take Me There...Take Me There
Take me to the place where it’s broadly known
In meadows and woods famous poets roamed
Where hosts of blithe yellow daffodils dance
In expectation o......
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Categories:
lake district, desire, dream, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme
Little Langdale...Let's flee to Little Langdale,
where mountains pierce the sky
through layers of cloud and fog,
past birds that swarm like flies.
Let's find the quarry tunnels
and tour Cathedral Cave
We'll he......
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Categories:
lake district, adventure, mountains,
Form:
Rhyme
What Is An Artist...Vincent Van Gogh
gave Starry Nights their lucent glow.
Then he took a pair of shears
and cut off his unsuspecting ear.
John Lennon
never once reeled his pen in.
He wrote and sang what he plea......
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Categories:
lake district, art,
Form:
Clerihew
Lake District...Languid days of Summer set me afire
Amber sun beams delight my heart.
King Fishers as they dart past
Each one swoops as it flies to its post.
Down by the river's edge
I watch, and listen-
See......
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Categories:
lake district, appreciation, beauty, nature,
Form:
Acrostic
National Treasures...Brecon Beacons for pony-treks,Cumbrian fells and bubbling becks;Dartmoor
with rocks rain scarred ,Lake District views beloved of bards.Northumbria, above
on moor and hill,where Roman echoes linge......
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Categories:
lake district, nature, places,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Wanderer...He was a wandering man that travelled many miles
staying a few days here and there, sometimes a week or two
then his feet would get that familiar itch and on he'd go
searching new horizons for his......
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Categories:
lake district, adventure, journey, travel,
Form:
Verse
Beatrix Potter...A good old duck, a mother hen,
a friend of Peter Rabbit; chased
Mr. McGregor out of the garden:
the Flopsy Bunnies survive again.
She knew her ewes from her rams,
meticulous, house-proud......
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Categories:
lake district, art,
Form:
Ballad
Some National Treasures...Brecon Beacons for pony-treks,
Cumbrian fells and bubbling becks;
Lake District views beloved of bards
Stone-bridged hamlets in the
Dales with enclosed leas along its vales.
Snowdonia ,one thou......
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Categories:
lake district, beautiful, places,
Form:
Idyll (Idyl)
Looking Across Windermere...The waters sparkle in the sun
as the breeze lifts across the lake
the yachts settle in their berth
looking out as it stands abrake
The skies show its beauty
in the morn revealing pastel blue
......
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Categories:
lake district, beautiful, nature, water,
Form:
Rhyme
Juniper's Daughter Springtime With My Family...JUNIPER’S DAUGHTER - SPRING WITH MY FAMILY
We went on a weekend to the Lake District, my love and I, in our flying disc. We had just been married not three months past. Ourselves together, my pag......
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Categories:
lake district, love, nature, romance, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Spiritual Lessons From Lakeland Fells...There we were all ready to climb Catbells
this climb we'd done some years ago
so thought we needed no map or direction
the weather was lovely the sky so aglow
A crowd was there seemingly on sam......
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Categories:
lake district, nature, spiritual, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
Treasures To Walk...Brecon Beacons
for pony-treks
Cumbrian fells
& bubbling becks
Dartmoor
with rocks rain scarred
Lake District views
beloved of bards
Northumbria on moor & hill
where R......
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Categories:
lake district, nature,
Form:
List
A Sea of Glass...Such a beautiful picture scene
so many lovely colours for the eye
full of splendour and light
what a view for the birds in sky
This is nature showing itself true
God’s creation painted by His ......
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Categories:
lake district, color, nature, sea,
Form:
Rhyme