Best Lakes Poems
Lavender Licorice and Lemonade LakesYou taste as if twilight were—
lavender swirling like smoke from the earth
licorice lingering with the full moon’s soft pull
a sweetness both dark and divine.
Your skin sparkles with starlight
electric and soft as moth wings.
We sip the pink sky
lemonade lakes cascade through our fingers
time unspools between our...
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Categories:
lakes, love, metaphor, romance, romantic,
Form:
Lyric
Sacred Lakes
“Sacred Lakes”
There is magic
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo
busy under cover of autumn leaves
turning burnished topaz gold
idling unrushed roll over
in honeyed slumber
turning back hands
to face a time of
blushing green
you are seen
turning naked face smiling
up towards blue...
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Categories:
lakes, journey, love, magic,
Form:
Romanticism
Spring LakesIn spring lakes, my eyes
Reflect back my purest self
Water remembers...
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Categories:
lakes, remember, self, water,
Form:
Haiku
Ode To the Mighty Great LakesCoast 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 skimming
Commanding
The azure locks of eternity to open
Gather her iron-ore souls from the cliffs
That lift along the turquoise bays
Arise
Our northern Holy...
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Categories:
lakes, beach, beautiful, beauty, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
These LakesThese lakes are scratches
gouged by glaciers
from rocks new
when life began.
Life is hard here
soil thin, fire common
yet Thompson's West Wind
is but a paddle ahead.
Blood flows thickly
o’er flesh
to knit a healing scab
leaving just a faint scar.
Stir not
these calm waters
nor linger
o’er faint...
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Categories:
lakes, art,
Form:
Free verse
The LakesThe Iroquois, the Ottawa, the Potawatomi, the Crow,
The Lakota, the Chippewa; all dwelt by their shores
And in their deep forests, but are there no more.
Yet the Lakes remain; their waters abide.
Clear and quiet they lie on calm summer days,
But send ships to their bottoms...
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Categories:
lakes, nature, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
A Thousand LakesA summer whisper –
A thousand lakes reflecting
A world upside down...
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Categories:
lakes, inspirational, introspection, nature,
Form:
Haiku
City of Lakes...early Spring walk around 3.2mi. Lake Calhoun...so named after controversial industrialist sotten with checkered past...movement underway to return name to Native American Dakota "Bde Maka Ska" White Earth Lake.
Purple Finches trill their soothing song
to people walking around Lake Bde Maka Ska,
a deep glacial lake...
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Categories:
lakes, happiness,
Form:
Narrative
Clear Lakes and ForestsClear lakes and forests:
I admired the view and then
Continued Skiing....
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Categories:
lakes, nature
Form:
Haiku
The Great Lakes - Part OnePellucid 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 States border tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface fresh water species hearth
Total surface equals 94,250 square miles
...
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Categories:
lakes, creation, environment, joy, sea,
Form:
Epic
The Great LakesPellucid pearls in northeastern
North America since planetary birth
comprise Lakes Superior, Michigan,
Huron, Erie, and Ontario
(HOMES acronym) dearth
largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth
straddle Canadian–United States
border tethering partial...
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Categories:
lakes, 10th grade, 4th grade,
Form:
Epic
The Great Lakes - Part OnePellucid 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 States border
tethering partial global girth
Constituting 21% of world's surface
fresh water species hearth
Total surface equals 94,250 square miles
And...
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Categories:
lakes, beauty, blue, heaven, imagery,
Form:
Free verse
Walking In the LakesWalkers gather throughout the year
In Keswick, Ambleside and Grasmere
They come to walk the fells
No matter the weather wet or clear
They travel from near and far
To follow the maps of Mr Wainwright
Who walked these same fells in the past
And left a memorial to follow aright
They are...
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Categories:
lakes, earth, inspirational, life, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
The Great Lakes - Part TwoLakes Michigan and Huron are basically a single lake,
Sometimes called Lake Michigan-Huron, combined doth make
Total area of 45,300 square miles (117,000 km2)
Have the same surface elevation of 577 feet (176 m),
Connected by 295-foot deep
dire Straits of Mackinac Islands splayed like a...
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Categories:
lakes, cool, devotion, environment, fishing,
Form:
Free verse
Take Me ThereTake 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 of budding romance.
To view magnificent mountains and lakes
And spectacular countryside landscapes
In hopefulness that it all will inspire
My muse to explode...
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Categories:
lakes, desire, dream, eulogy,
Form:
Rhyme