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Best Lake Michigan Poems

Below are the all-time best Lake Michigan poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of lake michigan poems written by PoetrySoup members


Spring On Lake Michigan
I look upon the water glittering and bright, white caps flashing, dancing diamonds in the light 

The breeze is strong, crisp and clear. Boats abound...

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© Jon Jones  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lake michigan, spring,
Form: Rhyme



Summers Everlasting
Sand in sheets
scuffing skin and reminding 
last nights attire reaks like bonfire
 a hundred days like this 
   a sea of endless laughs...

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Categories: lake michigan, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Remembering Mom






Balanced and perfect!

Always standing up for me.

Teaching me manners. Oh, how I fussed!!

Having French braids every summer. 

My shorts and tops had to match.

Teaching me to...

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Categories: lake michigan, appreciation, dedication, memory, mother
Form: List
Premium Member The High Holidays

The Chicago winds blew the soft, dark blue
satin drapes.
It was the spring of our passion.

Why do tears fall now, with you in a cold grave?
I...

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Categories: lake michigan, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The World Is a Small Plane
I have travelled through the cluttered corridors of my tired mind countless times. 
I have reached deep into the dark abyss of my captive soul...

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Categories: lake michigan, appreciation, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ode To the Mighty Great Lakes
Coast to Coast

The sun ascends over the Great Lakes
Settles back into the indigo depths
Flight of a copper swan shore to shore
With her sweeping wing tips...

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Categories: lake michigan, beach, beautiful, beauty, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Scare Me Good Poetry Contest
I crept into the pit of hell all alone. Contingent upon my lifestyle I knew this could be my last day alive…

She haunted me in...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lake michigan, dark, deep, fear, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 2
Pittsburgh, hammertown, Chuck Knoll and his boys
established the best Superbowl Era dynasty
with the "Steel Curtain" defense and the "Blonde Bomber" Bradshaw,
a defense disciplined on shrapnel...

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Categories: lake michigan, america, sports, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member True Values
True Values (Rich)


I have seen America from sea to shining sea, but have never left its sandy shores.
I’m older now, but when younger, I longed...

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Categories: lake michigan, adventure, america, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Prose
The Great Lakes - Part One
Pellucid pearls in northeastern North America since planetary birth
Comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario dearth
Largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth 
Straddle Canadian–United...

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Categories: lake michigan, creation, environment, joy, sea,
Form: Epic
Don Quixote Golf East
On one night, 
is it because of a bewitched full moon?
while driving my rusty shaking junk car
I became Don Quixote de la Mancha 
mounted on...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lake michigan, allegory, hero, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Chi Town Blues
Stop what your doin , baby lets go ..stop what your doin ..baby lets go 
give me that ..stop what your doing .. give me...

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Categories: lake michigan, adventure, america, hip hop,
Form: Lyric
The Great Lakes
Pellucid pearls in northeastern 
   North America since planetary birth
comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan, 
     Huron, Erie, and Ontario 
...

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Categories: lake michigan, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form: Epic
Chicago, 2
Haiku 16

     native warriors
     the Bowman and the Spearman
     by Lake Michigan...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lake michigan, beautiful, city, hero, native
Form: Haiku
Tunnel of Trees
A meandering stretch of twenty miles
from hip Cross Village to Harbor Springs,
through hairpin turns and roller coaster dips,
we, the lovers of the lovely
travel through Michigan’s...

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Categories: lake michigan, nature, places
Form: Free verse

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