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Best Lakes Poems

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


Premium Member How Poetry Began
That thing that we call poetry -
when asked where it began,
I’d say it started beautifully
before the dawn of man!

It glistened on the oceans
before man came...

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Categories: lakes, nature, poetry,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member View It From Afar
To appreciate our planet;
begin with its snowcapped mountains,
where sunbeams morph crystals of ice
into gems of glistening light.

Witness white clouds traverse the skies
floating on a vista...

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Categories: lakes, beautiful, earth, imagery, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Winter Sonata
In the landscape 
of melancholy, 
where arctic 
heartbeats linger, 
I long for withered 
willows to blossom 
like speckled 
diamond petals, 
while your crystalline 
silhouette strolls...

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Categories: lakes, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Ancient Warrior
I see the wrinkles in your suntanned brow,
You carried burdens then; you see them now.
You’ve heard the cries your people who in pain,
Have shed their...

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Categories: lakes, angst, culture, native american,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member The Land of the Midnight Sun
I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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Categories: lakes, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Specters of Slaves
Nature trail extends for miles
Surrounded by wetlands and lakes
Each step I take brings me closer
To an old plantation, where I climb the stiles

For it was...

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Categories: lakes, history,
Form: Rhyme
My Butterfly
 A perfumed breeze with summer lavender 

Shapeless smoked clouds had come and gone 

Through verdant valleys I strolled along 

Honeycombed hues warmed the new...

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Categories: lakes, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Was Her Poetry Seduced Me
When Thor struck his hammer
upon the flat ground on Earth
it was the pieces withstood the blow we named rock,
constructs we came to know as the...

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Categories: lakes, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lucid Dreams
 Last night I dreamt that I was dancing 
in soft foggy mists designed in 
pearly bows, frolicking from 
thin fluffy silver waves- 
blanketing moonlit...

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Categories: lakes, dance, deep, love,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Black and White
I am like an avalanche slithering in shivering angst,
free-falling into an abyss of an aching era,
where luminous lakes reflect pixelated regrets,
for time throws my canvas...

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Categories: lakes, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fondant Gates
The distance between us means nothing~
      l've f a l l e n in love with you, despite the moon...

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Categories: lakes, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Depth Perception
From corners of silver lakes, you shimmer
In glancing ripples, fluid treasure awaits
And I, diving for pearls, a swimmer
Tangled within your illusion of depth
Until the fragile...

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Categories: lakes, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Eyes Open
Mi Madre
Lung of Life
Heartbeat of the universe
Birth of consciousness

Mirror of the heavens
Grains of sand
Beneath my tender flesh

How glorious to gaze upon you
I weep with the...

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Categories: lakes, appreciation, devotion, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Upon Autumn's Stage
Upon autumn's stage where vermillion vistas and cobalt-blue sky meet
Picturesque hues enchant, oscillating in breeze, as scarlet landscapes greet.

Falling leaves trickle down on golden yellow...

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Categories: lakes, autumn, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Untouched Orchard
She's untouched fruit
from forbidden orchards
barren and wrinkled
with fragmented twigs,
whirling to the beat
of melancholic musings 
of black-winged butterflies 
that croon and reflect
the true tragedy of a...

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Categories: lakes, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs